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Baby names in Maine, 1920s

1920–1929 · 128,539 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Maine across the 1920s, with 3,587 births in the decade. The state recorded 128,539 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Maine in the 1920s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Rosaire7976×
Laurier6371×
Fernande10055×
Fernand18450×
Rolande4941×
Perley6640×
Murielle3036×
Simonne4433×

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert3,587
#2Mary2,690
#3John2,509
#4Richard2,143
#5Dorothy1,930
#6William1,885
#7George1,793
#8Donald1,709
#9Barbara1,655
#10Ruth1,587
#11Charles1,580
#12James1,480
#13Joseph1,429
#14Margaret1,302
#15Helen1,284
#16Raymond1,235
#17Harold1,150
#18Virginia1,079
#19Pauline1,075
#20Elizabeth1,072
#21Paul1,067
#22Edward1,065
#23Phyllis1,061
#24Arthur1,026
#25Frances1,020

Other decades in Maine

All Maine names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org