Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1917

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1917 were Mary for girls (139 babies) and John for boys (148). Social Security records list 5,846 babies born in New Hampshire in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1917

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: 23 babies, 68.1× the national rate
Cecile: 30 babies, 21.8× the national rate
Yvonne: 16 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 33 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Olive: 23 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Rita: 56 babies, 5× the national rate
Madeline: 25 babies, 5× the national rate
Rachel: 18 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Arlene: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Barbara: 40 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 22 babies, 28× the national rate
Lionel: 18 babies, 24× the national rate
Gerard: 23 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Roland: 50 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Wilfred: 25 babies, 11× the national rate
Maurice: 37 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Roger: 27 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Leo: 59 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Philip: 30 babies, 4× the national rate
Norman: 40 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	139	–	1
2	Helen	107	↑2	2
3	Dorothy	96	↓1	3
4	Ruth	93	↓1	5
5	Irene	83	↑2	17
6	Doris	72	↑4	25
7	Elizabeth	72	↑4	8
8	Margaret	65	↓3	4
9	Alice	56	↓3	13
10	Rita	56	↑31	63
11	Florence	55	↓2	14
12	Beatrice	53	↑5	39
13	Evelyn	50	↑1	11
14	Lillian	49	↓1	15
15	Pauline	48	↑5	33
16	Virginia	46	↓1	10
17	Marion	45	↑1	45
18	Lucille	44	↑8	29
19	Eleanor	43	–	26
20	Barbara	40	↓12	67
21	Louise	40	↑4	19
22	Mildred	40	↓10	6
23	Marie	37	↓2	12
24	Catherine	35	↑9	18
25	Gertrude	33	↑19	37
26	Jeannette	33	↓2	>100
27	Frances	32	↓11	9
28	Anna	30	↓6	7
29	Cecile	30	↓6	>100
30	Marjorie	30	↓3	36
31	Rose	30	↑14	16
32	Blanche	29	↑6	91
33	Thelma	29	↓1	32
34	Geraldine	26	new	89
35	Bertha	25	↑8	51
36	Charlotte	25	new	76
37	Katherine	25	↓7	49
38	Madeline	25	new	>100
39	Bernice	23	new	42
40	Grace	23	↑6	30
41	Olive	23	↑9	>100
42	Yvette	23	new	>100
43	Edith	22	↓4	28
44	Esther	22	new	38
45	Josephine	22	new	21
46	Phyllis	22	↓15	92
47	Marguerite	21	↑1	78
48	Martha	21	new	22
49	Edna	20	↓20	20
50	Ethel	20	↓14	24

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	148	–	1
2	Robert	140	–	4
3	George	99	–	6
4	Joseph	95	↑2	5
5	Charles	91	–	7
6	William	88	↓2	2
7	Arthur	83	↑5	17
8	Raymond	67	↑2	16
9	Albert	63	↑4	18
10	James	63	↑1	3
11	Edward	62	↓4	8
12	Leo	59	↑6	47
13	Richard	58	↓5	14
14	Paul	56	↓5	13
15	Frank	54	↑2	9
16	Henry	51	↓1	15
17	Roland	50	↑11	>100
18	Harold	44	↑2	12
19	Walter	43	↓5	11
20	Norman	40	↑4	46
21	Donald	39	↑5	20
22	Francis	39	↑5	30
23	Stanley	38	–	34
24	Maurice	37	↓2	>100
25	Kenneth	36	↑11	27
26	Ernest	33	↓7	37
27	Thomas	31	↓2	10
28	Philip	30	↑6	66
29	Ralph	30	↑4	21
30	Alfred	27	↓14	43
31	Roger	27	↑4	>100
32	Bernard	26	↓3	49
33	Earl	26	↑16	32
34	Harry	26	↓13	19
35	Lawrence	26	↓4	36
36	Wilfred	25	↑5	>100
37	Carl	23	↑1	24
38	Frederick	23	↑1	51
39	Gerard	23	new	>100
40	Louis	23	↓3	23
41	Armand	22	↓1	>100
42	David	20	↑6	28
43	Theodore	20	new	63
44	Clarence	19	↑3	25
45	Howard	18	↓15	26
46	Lionel	18	new	>100
47	Gordon	16	new	84
48	Leon	16	new	82
49	Peter	16	↓17	50
50	Daniel	15	new	54

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