Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1916

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1916 were Mary for girls (157 babies) and John for boys (160). Social Security records list 5,568 babies born in New Hampshire in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1916

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

Cecile: 32 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Yvonne: 21 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 31 babies, 10× the national rate
Annette: 16 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Barbara: 55 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Arlene: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Olive: 20 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Phyllis: 27 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Madeline: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Blanche: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 21 babies, 30.2× the national rate
Wilfred: 21 babies, 10× the national rate
Roland: 31 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Maurice: 35 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Roger: 24 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Leo: 38 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Alexander: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Philip: 24 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Norman: 33 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Alfred: 39 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	157	–	1
2	Dorothy	112	–	3
3	Ruth	103	↑1	5
4	Helen	97	↓1	2
5	Margaret	74	↑5	4
6	Alice	70	↓1	13
7	Irene	57	↓1	17
8	Barbara	55	↑3	74
9	Florence	55	↑7	14
10	Doris	54	↑4	32
11	Elizabeth	50	↓4	8
12	Mildred	50	↑7	6
13	Lillian	49	↑2	16
14	Evelyn	48	↓6	11
15	Virginia	46	↑16	10
16	Frances	44	↑4	9
17	Beatrice	42	↓4	38
18	Marion	41	↓6	47
19	Eleanor	39	↑4	27
20	Pauline	38	↓11	33
21	Marie	37	–	12
22	Anna	32	↓4	7
23	Cecile	32	↑4	>100
24	Jeannette	31	↑12	>100
25	Louise	31	↓8	18
26	Lucille	31	–	30
27	Marjorie	31	↑1	37
28	Gladys	29	↑7	22
29	Edna	28	↑15	19
30	Katherine	27	new	51
31	Phyllis	27	↑15	95
32	Thelma	27	new	29
33	Catherine	26	↑5	20
34	Jennie	26	new	79
35	Stella	26	↓5	63
36	Ethel	25	↓14	25
37	Ann	24	new	40
38	Blanche	24	↑3	89
39	Edith	24	↑3	28
40	Hazel	24	↓7	31
41	Rita	24	↓4	67
42	Agnes	22	new	50
43	Bertha	22	↓3	49
44	Gertrude	22	↓20	35
45	Rose	22	↓16	15
46	Grace	21	↑2	26
47	Laura	21	new	64
48	Marguerite	21	new	78
49	Yvonne	21	↓2	>100
50	Olive	20	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	160	–	1
2	Robert	154	–	4
3	George	128	↑1	7
4	William	107	↓1	2
5	Charles	93	↑1	6
6	Joseph	88	↓1	5
7	Edward	69	↑1	8
8	Richard	68	↑1	15
9	Paul	65	↑3	12
10	Raymond	61	↑1	16
11	James	58	↓4	3
12	Arthur	55	↓2	18
13	Albert	52	–	17
14	Walter	52	↑1	11
15	Henry	43	↑3	14
16	Alfred	39	↑12	43
17	Frank	38	↓3	9
18	Leo	38	↑4	47
19	Ernest	37	↓2	36
20	Harold	37	–	13
21	Harry	37	↑12	19
22	Maurice	35	↑1	100
23	Stanley	34	↑7	34
24	Norman	33	↑5	48
25	Thomas	33	↑2	10
26	Donald	31	↓7	20
27	Francis	31	↓2	31
28	Roland	31	↓12	>100
29	Bernard	29	↑21	49
30	Howard	25	↑4	25
31	Lawrence	25	↓5	38
32	Peter	25	↑17	50
33	Ralph	25	↓9	21
34	Philip	24	↑1	70
35	Roger	24	↓4	>100
36	Kenneth	23	↓15	27
37	Louis	23	–	22
38	Carl	22	new	23
39	Frederick	22	↓3	52
40	Armand	21	↑8	>100
41	Wilfred	21	↓9	>100
42	Gerald	20	new	76
43	Andrew	18	new	46
44	Herbert	18	new	40
45	Anthony	17	new	37
46	Alexander	16	new	99
47	Clarence	14	↓2	24
48	David	14	↓7	28
49	Earl	14	new	32
50	Everett	14	↓8	91

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