Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1914

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1914 were Mary for girls (138 babies) and John for boys (115). Social Security records list 4,735 babies born in New Hampshire in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1914

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: 15 babies, 36.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 19 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Cecile: 15 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Arlene: 18 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 20 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Rachel: 23 babies, 7× the national rate
Barbara: 31 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Muriel: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Phyllis: 19 babies, 4× the national rate
Doris: 55 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 16 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Roland: 26 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Roger: 21 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Maurice: 24 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Norman: 33 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Philip: 25 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Leo: 29 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Alfred: 35 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Stanley: 37 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Ernest: 36 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	138	–	1
2	Helen	79	–	2
3	Dorothy	74	–	3
4	Irene	68	↑4	22
5	Ruth	66	–	5
6	Margaret	62	↑1	4
7	Elizabeth	57	↓1	8
8	Doris	55	↑10	36
9	Evelyn	53	↑1	11
10	Mildred	52	↑11	7
11	Alice	51	↓7	12
12	Lillian	48	↑4	16
13	Florence	46	↑2	13
14	Marion	44	↓3	50
15	Anna	41	↓3	6
16	Frances	40	↓7	9
17	Beatrice	38	↓3	38
18	Pauline	38	↑4	34
19	Eleanor	35	–	28
20	Gladys	32	↑7	20
21	Barbara	31	↓4	82
22	Edna	28	↑22	19
23	Gertrude	27	↑3	32
24	Marie	27	↓11	10
25	Marjorie	27	↓1	45
26	Bertha	26	↑16	41
27	Eva	26	↑5	52
28	Rose	26	↓8	15
29	Virginia	26	↑19	14
30	Catherine	25	↓2	18
31	Louise	24	↓1	17
32	Rachel	23	new	>100
33	Ethel	22	↑12	21
34	Hazel	22	↑4	29
35	Esther	21	↓12	35
36	Grace	21	↓3	25
37	Ida	20	new	49
38	Jeannette	20	↑8	>100
39	Marguerite	19	↑1	84
40	Nellie	19	new	61
41	Phyllis	19	new	>100
42	Yvonne	19	new	>100
43	Arlene	18	new	>100
44	Bernice	18	new	43
45	Lucille	18	↓11	30
46	Laura	17	new	59
47	Muriel	17	new	>100
48	Rita	17	new	87
49	Sophie	17	new	100
50	Stella	17	↓19	65

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	115	–	1
2	Robert	103	↑1	4
3	George	97	↑2	6
4	William	94	–	2
5	Joseph	87	↓3	5
6	Edward	64	↑2	8
7	Charles	62	–	7
8	Albert	56	↓2	15
9	James	56	–	3
10	Richard	56	↑7	17
11	Frank	53	↑8	9
12	Arthur	50	↓2	18
13	Paul	50	↓1	13
14	Harold	43	↓3	14
15	Henry	41	↓2	12
16	Raymond	41	↓2	16
17	Stanley	37	↑5	39
18	Donald	36	↑7	23
19	Ernest	36	↓3	38
20	Alfred	35	↑4	41
21	Francis	34	↓3	31
22	Norman	33	↑18	54
23	Walter	31	↓8	10
24	Leo	29	↑2	47
25	Harry	27	↓4	19
26	Roland	26	↑6	>100
27	Philip	25	–	68
28	Maurice	24	↑3	94
29	Ralph	24	↑8	21
30	Kenneth	22	–	30
31	Lawrence	22	↑4	35
32	Thomas	22	↓12	11
33	Roger	21	↓5	>100
34	Frederick	19	↑14	52
35	Louis	19	↓1	20
36	Peter	19	↑14	48
37	Herbert	18	↑5	42
38	Howard	18	↓15	26
39	Andrew	17	↑2	44
40	Armand	16	new	>100
41	Earl	15	new	33
42	Theodore	15	↑1	64
43	Clarence	13	↑2	22
44	Everett	13	new	90
45	Fred	13	↑1	28
46	Bernard	12	↓13	50
47	Edgar	12	new	87
48	Emile	12	new	>100
49	Victor	12	new	76
50	David	11	new	29

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