Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1912

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1912 were Mary for girls (95 babies) and John for boys (85). Social Security records list 2,594 babies born in New Hampshire in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1912

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

Jeannette: 15 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Doris: 33 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Marion: 31 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Irene: 41 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Alice: 47 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Beatrice: 24 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Eva: 16 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Eleanor: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Florence: 30 babies, 2× the national rate
Lillian: 29 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 16 babies, 46.4× the national rate
Roland: 18 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Roger: 15 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Leo: 28 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Kenneth: 21 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Stanley: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Donald: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Arthur: 32 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Albert: 31 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Francis: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	95	–	1
2	Ruth	57	↑4	5
3	Helen	52	↑1	2
4	Dorothy	50	↓2	3
5	Alice	47	↓2	11
6	Irene	41	↓1	22
7	Margaret	36	–	4
8	Frances	34	↑14	9
9	Doris	33	↓1	48
10	Elizabeth	33	↑1	8
11	Marion	31	↑4	55
12	Florence	30	↑1	12
13	Evelyn	29	↓1	13
14	Lillian	29	↓5	14
15	Mildred	26	↓5	6
16	Beatrice	24	↓2	37
17	Anna	22	↑1	7
18	Gladys	21	↓2	19
19	Louise	21	↑1	17
20	Edith	18	↑17	31
21	Eleanor	18	–	39
22	Marie	18	↑7	10
23	Ethel	17	↑10	18
24	Rose	17	↑1	15
25	Catherine	16	↑7	21
26	Eva	16	↑1	49
27	Hazel	15	↓10	25
28	Jeannette	15	↑6	>100
29	Barbara	14	↑16	>100
30	Bertha	14	↑6	36
31	Edna	14	↓3	16
32	Gertrude	14	↓9	30
33	Josephine	14	↑6	28
34	Marjorie	14	↓10	56
35	Yvonne	14	↓9	>100
36	Katherine	13	↓1	53
37	Olive	13	new	>100
38	Agnes	12	↓7	40
39	Cecile	12	new	>100
40	Clara	12	new	34
41	Ellen	12	new	86
42	Ida	12	↑7	45
43	Marguerite	12	↓2	79
44	Virginia	12	new	20
45	Juliette	11	new	>100
46	Thelma	11	↓2	26
47	Anne	10	↓5	58
48	Charlotte	10	new	91
49	Elsie	10	new	42
50	Jennie	10	new	81

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	85	–	1
2	George	65	↑6	6
3	Joseph	54	↓1	5
4	Robert	54	–	4
5	William	47	↓2	2
6	Charles	40	–	7
7	Edward	36	↓2	8
8	Arthur	32	↓1	15
9	Albert	31	–	17
10	Leo	28	↑6	49
11	Raymond	26	↑7	18
12	Henry	25	↑12	12
13	Richard	25	↓2	19
14	Frank	24	↓2	9
15	Paul	24	↑2	14
16	Walter	22	↑3	11
17	Donald	21	↓3	27
18	Kenneth	21	↑14	33
19	James	19	↓6	3
20	Ralph	19	↑5	23
21	Harry	18	↑2	16
22	Louis	18	↑7	20
23	Roland	18	↑21	>100
24	Francis	17	↑11	35
25	Harold	17	↓15	13
26	Armand	16	↑4	>100
27	Ernest	16	↓5	32
28	Lawrence	16	↓8	38
29	Howard	15	↑19	25
30	Roger	15	new	>100
31	Stanley	15	↓10	43
32	Alfred	14	↓5	40
33	Clarence	13	new	21
34	Theodore	12	↓1	52
35	Maurice	11	↓7	95
36	Thomas	11	↓21	10
37	Gordon	10	↓6	93
38	Wilfred	10	↓12	>100
39	Chester	9	new	55
40	Herbert	9	new	39
41	Leon	9	–	79
42	Philip	9	↑1	69
43	Edgar	8	new	85
44	Everett	8	new	96
45	Michael	8	↓8	42
46	Norman	8	new	61
47	Peter	8	↓9	48
48	Earl	7	↓2	34
49	Irving	7	new	94
50	Leonard	7	new	45

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