Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1910
The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1910 were Mary for girls (50 babies) and John for boys (23). Social Security records list 1,154 babies born in New Hampshire in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1910
Names given at least 15 times in New Hampshire that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.
Girls
- Marion: 29 babies, 7.9× the national rate
- Doris: 23 babies, 7× the national rate
- Beatrice: 26 babies, 4.9× the national rate
- Irene: 28 babies, 4× the national rate
- Alice: 35 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Lillian: 29 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Evelyn: 24 babies, 3× the national rate
- Hazel: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
- Dorothy: 39 babies, 2.5× the national rate
- Florence: 22 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1910
| Rank | Name | Babies | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | 50 | 1 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 39 | 4 |
| 3 | Alice | 35 | 10 |
| 4 | Helen | 30 | 2 |
| 5 | Lillian | 29 | 14 |
| 6 | Marion | 29 | 59 |
| 7 | Irene | 28 | 21 |
| 8 | Beatrice | 26 | 36 |
| 9 | Ruth | 26 | 5 |
| 10 | Evelyn | 24 | 17 |
| 11 | Doris | 23 | 64 |
| 12 | Florence | 22 | 12 |
| 13 | Mildred | 22 | 8 |
| 14 | Elizabeth | 21 | 7 |
| 15 | Margaret | 19 | 3 |
| 16 | Hazel | 17 | 24 |
| 17 | Ethel | 15 | 13 |
| 18 | Blanche | 14 | 74 |
| 19 | Barbara | 13 | >100 |
| 20 | Frances | 13 | 11 |
| 21 | Pauline | 13 | 42 |
| 22 | Anna | 12 | 6 |
| 23 | Esther | 12 | 38 |
| 24 | Gertrude | 12 | 26 |
| 25 | Louise | 12 | 20 |
| 26 | Thelma | 12 | 25 |
| 27 | Bertha | 11 | 33 |
| 28 | Edith | 11 | 35 |
| 29 | Marie | 11 | 9 |
| 30 | Rose | 11 | 16 |
| 31 | Gladys | 10 | 15 |
| 32 | Grace | 10 | 23 |
| 33 | Jeannette | 10 | >100 |
| 34 | Catherine | 9 | 22 |
| 35 | Marjorie | 9 | 68 |
| 36 | Dora | 8 | >100 |
| 37 | Edna | 8 | 18 |
| 38 | Eleanor | 8 | 55 |
| 39 | Josephine | 8 | 30 |
| 40 | Olive | 8 | >100 |
| 41 | Bernice | 7 | 58 |
| 42 | Ellen | 7 | 88 |
| 43 | Elsie | 7 | 44 |
| 44 | Katherine | 7 | 57 |
| 45 | Lena | 7 | 66 |
| 46 | Mabel | 7 | 46 |
| 47 | Anne | 6 | 67 |
| 48 | Antoinette | 6 | >100 |
| 49 | Cecile | 6 | >100 |
| 50 | Eva | 6 | 45 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | 23 | 1 |
| 2 | George | 22 | 5 |
| 3 | Joseph | 22 | 6 |
| 4 | Charles | 15 | 7 |
| 5 | Edward | 15 | 9 |
| 6 | William | 15 | 3 |
| 7 | Albert | 12 | 14 |
| 8 | Arthur | 11 | 17 |
| 9 | James | 11 | 2 |
| 10 | Robert | 11 | 4 |
| 11 | Ernest | 10 | 31 |
| 12 | Frank | 10 | 8 |
| 13 | Francis | 9 | 36 |
| 14 | Harold | 9 | 18 |
| 15 | Ralph | 9 | 28 |
| 16 | Raymond | 9 | 19 |
| 17 | Thomas | 8 | 12 |
| 18 | Carl | 7 | 26 |
| 19 | Walter | 7 | 13 |
| 20 | Donald | 6 | 44 |
| 21 | Fred | 6 | 22 |
| 22 | Leo | 6 | 51 |
| 23 | Alfred | 5 | 38 |
| 24 | Everett | 5 | 88 |
| 25 | Frederick | 5 | 69 |
| 26 | Herbert | 5 | 41 |
| 27 | Maurice | 5 | >100 |
| 28 | Michael | 5 | 45 |
| 29 | Paul | 5 | 15 |
| 30 | Richard | 5 | 21 |
| 31 | Roland | 5 | >100 |
| 32 | Theodore | 5 | 54 |