Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1913

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1913 were Mary for girls (98 babies) and John for boys (104). Social Security records list 3,118 babies born in New Hampshire in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1913

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

Germaine: 19 babies, 65.4× the national rate
Barbara: 25 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Marion: 33 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Charlotte: 17 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Beatrice: 30 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Doris: 25 babies, 3× the national rate
Alice: 55 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Stella: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Irene: 39 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Marjorie: 20 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 16 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Roger: 16 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roland: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Maurice: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Philip: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Ernest: 25 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Albert: 45 babies, 3× the national rate
Leo: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Francis: 24 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Stanley: 19 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	98	–	1
2	Helen	73	↑1	2
3	Dorothy	62	↑1	3
4	Alice	55	↑1	11
5	Ruth	51	↓3	5
6	Elizabeth	41	↑4	8
7	Margaret	40	–	4
8	Irene	39	↓2	21
9	Frances	35	↓1	9
10	Evelyn	34	↑3	12
11	Marion	33	–	51
12	Anna	31	↑5	7
13	Marie	31	↑9	10
14	Beatrice	30	↑2	37
15	Florence	30	↓3	13
16	Lillian	30	↓2	16
17	Barbara	25	↑12	94
18	Doris	25	↓9	44
19	Eleanor	25	↑2	34
20	Rose	24	↑4	14
21	Mildred	22	↓6	6
22	Pauline	21	new	35
23	Esther	20	new	32
24	Marjorie	20	↑10	48
25	Germaine	19	new	>100
26	Gertrude	19	↑6	33
27	Gladys	19	↓9	19
28	Catherine	17	↓3	22
29	Charlotte	17	↑19	87
30	Louise	17	↓11	17
31	Stella	17	new	69
32	Eva	16	↓6	50
33	Grace	16	new	25
34	Lucille	16	new	31
35	Katherine	15	↑1	54
36	Thelma	15	↑10	26
37	Edith	14	↓17	29
38	Hazel	14	↓11	27
39	Josephine	14	↓6	24
40	Marguerite	14	↑3	78
41	Agnes	13	↓3	41
42	Bertha	13	↓12	39
43	Cecile	13	↓4	>100
44	Edna	13	↓13	18
45	Ethel	13	↓22	20
46	Jeannette	13	↓18	>100
47	Madeline	13	new	>100
48	Virginia	13	↓4	15
49	Ann	12	new	46
50	Mabel	11	new	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	104	–	1
2	Joseph	67	↑1	5
3	Robert	64	↑1	4
4	William	61	↑1	2
5	George	52	↓3	6
6	Albert	45	↑3	16
7	Charles	41	↓1	7
8	Edward	41	↓1	8
9	James	41	↑10	3
10	Arthur	39	↓2	17
11	Harold	33	↑14	13
12	Paul	33	↑3	14
13	Henry	32	↓1	12
14	Raymond	30	↓3	18
15	Walter	30	↑1	11
16	Ernest	25	↑11	34
17	Richard	25	↓4	19
18	Francis	24	↑6	30
19	Frank	24	↓5	9
20	Thomas	20	↑16	10
21	Harry	19	–	15
22	Stanley	19	↑9	41
23	Howard	17	↑6	26
24	Alfred	16	↑8	42
25	Donald	16	↓8	25
26	Leo	16	↓16	48
27	Philip	16	↑15	69
28	Roger	16	↑2	>100
29	Wilfred	16	↑9	>100
30	Kenneth	15	↓12	33
31	Maurice	15	↑4	95
32	Roland	15	↓9	>100
33	Bernard	14	new	52
34	Louis	14	↓12	20
35	Lawrence	13	↓7	35
36	Leon	13	↑5	81
37	Ralph	13	↓17	22
38	Eugene	12	new	43
39	Leonard	12	↑11	46
40	Norman	12	↑6	57
41	Andrew	11	new	47
42	Herbert	11	↓2	39
43	Theodore	11	↓9	60
44	Anthony	10	new	38
45	Clarence	10	↓12	21
46	Fred	10	new	27
47	Daniel	9	new	54
48	Frederick	9	new	49
49	Lionel	9	new	>100
50	Peter	9	↓3	51

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