Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1911

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1911 were Mary for girls (68 babies) and John for boys (55). Social Security records list 1,823 babies born in New Hampshire in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1911

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

Doris: 28 babies, 6× the national rate
Marion: 21 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Irene: 37 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Alice: 40 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Beatrice: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Eleanor: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Dorothy: 57 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Lillian: 28 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Evelyn: 22 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Hazel: 18 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Leo: 15 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Donald: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Arthur: 30 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Richard: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Albert: 21 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Harold: 21 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joseph: 53 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Edward: 35 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	68	–	1
2	Dorothy	57	–	4
3	Alice	40	–	11
4	Helen	39	–	2
5	Irene	37	↑2	21
6	Ruth	36	↑3	5
7	Margaret	32	↑8	3
8	Doris	28	↑3	56
9	Lillian	28	↓4	13
10	Mildred	25	↑3	8
11	Elizabeth	22	↑3	7
12	Evelyn	22	↓2	16
13	Florence	22	↓1	12
14	Beatrice	21	↓6	37
15	Marion	21	↓9	58
16	Gladys	18	↑15	18
17	Hazel	18	↓1	25
18	Anna	16	↑4	6
19	Grace	16	↑13	23
20	Louise	16	↑5	19
21	Eleanor	15	↑17	49
22	Frances	15	↓2	10
23	Gertrude	15	↑1	30
24	Marjorie	14	↑11	59
25	Rose	14	↑5	14
26	Yvonne	14	new	>100
27	Eva	13	↑23	46
28	Edna	12	↑9	17
29	Marie	12	–	9
30	Pauline	12	↓9	38
31	Agnes	11	new	39
32	Catherine	11	↑2	20
33	Ethel	11	↓16	15
34	Jeannette	11	↓1	>100
35	Katherine	11	↑9	55
36	Bertha	10	↓9	36
37	Edith	10	↓9	31
38	Esther	10	↓15	34
39	Josephine	10	–	29
40	Lucy	10	new	77
41	Marguerite	10	new	87
42	Anne	9	↑5	64
43	Rita	9	new	>100
44	Thelma	9	↓18	27
45	Barbara	8	↓26	>100
46	Bernice	8	↓5	51
47	Blanche	8	↓29	75
48	Emily	8	new	>100
49	Ida	8	new	45
50	Julia	8	new	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	55	–	1
2	Joseph	53	↑1	6
3	William	38	↑3	2
4	Robert	37	↑6	5
5	Edward	35	–	9
6	Charles	31	↓2	7
7	Arthur	30	↑1	18
8	George	29	↓6	4
9	Albert	21	↓2	15
10	Harold	21	↑4	16
11	Richard	19	↑19	20
12	Frank	18	–	8
13	James	18	↓4	3
14	Donald	17	↑6	36
15	Thomas	17	↑2	10
16	Leo	15	↑6	51
17	Paul	15	↑12	17
18	Raymond	14	↓2	19
19	Walter	13	–	12
20	Lawrence	12	new	37
21	Stanley	12	new	44
22	Ernest	11	↓11	32
23	Harry	11	new	13
24	Henry	11	new	11
25	Ralph	11	↓10	24
26	Wilfred	11	new	>100
27	Alfred	10	↓4	39
28	Maurice	10	↓1	99
29	Louis	9	new	21
30	Armand	8	new	>100
31	Gordon	8	new	97
32	Kenneth	8	new	40
33	Theodore	8	↓1	56
34	Eugene	7	new	43
35	Francis	7	↓22	33
36	Frederick	7	↓11	52
37	Michael	7	↓9	38
38	Peter	7	new	50
39	Daniel	6	new	53
40	Emile	6	new	>100
41	Leon	6	new	77
42	Lucien	6	new	>100
43	Philip	6	new	69
44	Roland	6	↓13	>100
45	Carl	5	↓27	26
46	Earl	5	new	34
47	Fred	5	↓26	22
48	Howard	5	new	28
49	Malcolm	5	new	>100
50	Melvin	5	new	73

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