Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1915

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1915 were Mary for girls (186 babies) and John for boys (151). Social Security records list 5,733 babies born in New Hampshire in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1915

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

Yvette: 17 babies, 59.9× the national rate
Germaine: 22 babies, 50.4× the national rate
Cecile: 32 babies, 21.5× the national rate
Yvonne: 20 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 28 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Barbara: 54 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Marion: 53 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Pauline: 61 babies, 3× the national rate
Phyllis: 20 babies, 3× the national rate
Irene: 77 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Lucien: 21 babies, 54.9× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 24.1× the national rate
Gerard: 18 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Wilfred: 27 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Roland: 44 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Roger: 27 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Maurice: 33 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Everett: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Philip: 25 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Gordon: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	186	–	1
2	Dorothy	113	↑1	3
3	Helen	91	↓1	2
4	Ruth	80	↑1	5
5	Alice	79	↑6	13
6	Irene	77	↓2	17
7	Elizabeth	68	–	8
8	Evelyn	61	↑1	10
9	Pauline	61	↑9	32
10	Margaret	59	↓4	4
11	Barbara	54	↑10	83
12	Marion	53	↑2	50
13	Beatrice	50	↑4	37
14	Doris	50	↓6	34
15	Lillian	47	↓3	15
16	Florence	45	↓3	14
17	Louise	43	↑14	18
18	Anna	41	↓3	7
19	Mildred	41	↓9	6
20	Frances	40	↓4	9
21	Marie	39	↑3	11
22	Ethel	35	↑11	23
23	Eleanor	34	↓4	28
24	Gertrude	33	↓1	35
25	Josephine	33	new	22
26	Lucille	33	↑19	29
27	Cecile	32	new	>100
28	Marjorie	32	↓3	39
29	Rose	31	↓1	16
30	Stella	31	↑20	64
31	Virginia	31	↓2	12
32	Esther	30	↑3	33
33	Hazel	30	↑1	26
34	Eva	28	↓7	55
35	Gladys	28	↓15	21
36	Jeannette	28	↑2	>100
37	Rita	27	↑11	71
38	Catherine	26	↓8	19
39	Lena	25	new	77
40	Bertha	23	↓14	46
41	Blanche	23	new	87
42	Edith	23	new	31
43	Germaine	22	new	>100
44	Edna	20	↓22	20
45	Leona	20	new	74
46	Phyllis	20	↓5	100
47	Yvonne	20	↓5	>100
48	Grace	19	↓12	27
49	Theresa	19	new	93
50	Bernice	18	↓6	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	151	–	1
2	Robert	124	–	4
3	William	111	↑1	2
4	George	107	↓1	6
5	Joseph	84	–	5
6	Charles	81	↑1	7
7	James	81	↑2	3
8	Edward	80	↓2	8
9	Richard	76	↑1	15
10	Arthur	61	↑2	18
11	Raymond	55	↑5	16
12	Paul	48	↑1	13
13	Albert	46	↓5	17
14	Frank	46	↓3	9
15	Walter	45	↑8	11
16	Roland	44	↑10	>100
17	Ernest	43	↑2	35
18	Henry	43	↓3	14
19	Donald	38	↓1	20
20	Harold	38	↓6	12
21	Kenneth	34	↑9	28
22	Leo	33	↑2	47
23	Maurice	33	↑5	>100
24	Ralph	33	↑5	21
25	Francis	32	↓4	29
26	Lawrence	31	↑5	37
27	Thomas	31	↑5	10
28	Alfred	29	↓8	42
29	Norman	29	↓7	50
30	Stanley	29	↓13	34
31	Roger	27	↑2	>100
32	Wilfred	27	new	>100
33	Harry	26	↓8	19
34	Howard	26	↑4	25
35	Philip	25	↓8	69
36	Frederick	23	↓2	52
37	Louis	23	↓2	23
38	Chester	21	new	54
39	Fred	21	↑6	26
40	Lucien	21	new	>100
41	David	19	↑9	31
42	Everett	19	↑2	89
43	Leon	19	new	82
44	Leonard	19	new	44
45	Clarence	18	↓2	24
46	Gerard	18	new	>100
47	Gordon	18	new	90
48	Armand	16	↓8	>100
49	Peter	16	↓13	49
50	Bernard	13	↓4	48

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