What baby names are unique to Maine?

Laurier is the name most distinctive to Maine, given about 99 times more often there than in the United States as a whole. Rinette, Rosaire and Priscille follow.

How is a distinctive name measured?

Each name's share of births in Maine is compared with its share nationally. The multiplier shown is the conservative low end of that ratio, so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

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Names unique to Maine

The most distinctive Maine baby names, 1910–2025

These are the names given far more often in Maine than anywhere else in the country, across the whole record from 1910 to 2025. Laurier leads: it is given about 99× more often here than across the United States as a whole.

The multiplier compares each name's share of Maine births with its share nationally, and reports the conservative low end of that comparison — so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

Across the whole record, 1910–2025

#	Name	Births	vs national
1	Laurier	166	99×
2	Rinette	10	94×
3	Rosaire	150	93×
4	Priscille	83	76×
5	Rolande	146	65×
6	Fernande	155	62×
7	Vinal	46	60×
8	Fernand	382	58×
9	Perley	204	56×
10	Laureat	6	42×
11	Gilman	168	39×
12	Normand	933	37×
13	Erlon	11	36×
14	Leonide	5	31×
15	Bertrand	498	30×
16	Rejeanne	10	27×
17	Gilberte	32	26×
18	Simonne	100	23×
19	Joline	222	22×
20	Ludger	26	22×
21	Aurore	45	19×
22	Laurette	240	18×
23	Murielle	35	18×
24	Lorette	87	16×
25	Lucienne	130	16×
26	Linwood	857	16×
27	Carleton	313	15×
28	Muguette	5	14×
29	Sewall	5	14×
30	Cecile	1,017	14×
31	Merton	239	14×
32	Renald	40	13×
33	Lucien	526	12×
34	Adelard	31	12×
35	Delmont	32	10×
36	Armand	633	10×
37	Earle	415	9×
38	Germaine	395	9×
39	Maynard	522	8×
40	Claudette	659	8×

Right now, in 2025

A different list from the one above, and not a contradiction: these are the names distinctive to Maine in a single recent year rather than across the whole record.

Name	Births	vs national
Edie	5	8×
Alden	13	5×
Finnegan	11	3×
Sawyer	39	3×
Caspian	10	3×
Malcolm	16	3×
Maeve	31	3×
Sullivan	14	2×
Griffin	18	2×
Bode	7	2×

Decade by decade

The single most distinctive name of each decade.

Decade	Name	vs national
1910s	Laurier	62×
1920s	Rosaire	76×
1930s	Rolande	61×
1940s	Priscille	63×
1950s	Laurier	91×
1960s	Joline	30×
1970s	Bethany	5×
1980s	Eben	24×
1990s	Unnamed	12×
2000s	Acadia	15×
2010s	Alden	8×
2020s	Bode	9×

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Names unique to other states

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