Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1918

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1918 were Mary for girls (158 babies) and John for boys (186). Social Security records list 6,380 babies born in New Hampshire in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1918

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: 15 babies, 42.8× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 18 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Yvonne: 18 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Arlene: 26 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Rita: 70 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Anita: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Claire: 16 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Barbara: 61 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Lionel: 16 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Armand: 20 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Roger: 43 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Roland: 40 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Maurice: 33 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Norman: 41 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Alexander: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Leo: 38 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	158	–	1
2	Dorothy	133	↑1	3
3	Helen	117	↓1	2
4	Ruth	106	–	5
5	Irene	94	–	16
6	Margaret	90	↑2	4
7	Doris	70	↓1	19
8	Rita	70	↑2	58
9	Alice	68	–	13
10	Frances	65	↑17	8
11	Barbara	61	↑9	60
12	Elizabeth	61	↓5	9
13	Evelyn	54	–	11
14	Pauline	52	↑1	35
15	Eleanor	49	↑4	26
16	Virginia	49	–	7
17	Florence	48	↓6	14
18	Lucille	43	–	29
19	Beatrice	42	↓7	40
20	Marion	42	↓3	45
21	Lillian	41	↓7	15
22	Catherine	40	↑2	20
23	Gertrude	39	↑2	39
24	Marie	36	↓1	12
25	Gladys	33	new	22
26	Phyllis	33	↑20	80
27	Thelma	33	↑6	32
28	Louise	32	↓7	18
29	Stella	32	new	67
30	Mildred	31	↓8	6
31	Rose	31	–	17
32	Marjorie	30	↓2	34
33	Anna	28	↓5	10
34	Esther	28	↑10	38
35	Eva	28	new	55
36	Josephine	28	↑9	24
37	Katherine	28	–	50
38	Edith	27	↑5	30
39	Julia	27	new	48
40	Arlene	26	new	>100
41	Hazel	26	new	33
42	Agnes	25	new	47
43	Cecile	23	↓14	>100
44	Lorraine	23	new	69
45	Anita	22	new	>100
46	Grace	21	↓6	31
47	Marguerite	21	–	86
48	Blanche	20	↓16	96
49	Charlotte	20	↓13	78
50	Madeline	20	↓12	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	186	–	1
2	Robert	175	–	4
3	George	106	–	6
4	William	105	↑2	2
5	Edward	95	↑6	8
6	Joseph	87	↓2	7
7	Richard	80	↑6	12
8	Charles	79	↓3	5
9	Raymond	78	↓1	15
10	James	67	–	3
11	Arthur	66	↓4	17
12	Paul	60	↑2	14
13	Albert	55	↓4	19
14	Henry	51	↑2	16
15	Donald	49	↑6	18
16	Walter	48	↑3	11
17	Ernest	46	↑9	37
18	Kenneth	45	↑7	27
19	Francis	43	↑3	30
20	Roger	43	↑11	>100
21	Norman	41	↓1	49
22	Roland	40	↓5	>100
23	Thomas	40	↑4	10
24	Leo	38	↓12	48
25	Harold	37	↓7	13
26	Frank	36	↓11	9
27	Louis	36	↑13	24
28	Stanley	36	↓5	36
29	Harry	34	↑5	20
30	Maurice	33	↓6	>100
31	Alfred	29	↓1	42
32	Ralph	29	↓3	22
33	Frederick	26	↑5	59
34	Lawrence	25	↑1	38
35	Philip	25	↓7	71
36	Bernard	21	↓4	47
37	Edwin	21	new	55
38	Herbert	21	new	40
39	Armand	20	↑2	>100
40	Gerard	20	↓1	>100
41	Howard	20	↑4	26
42	Peter	20	↑7	53
43	Russell	20	new	50
44	Victor	20	new	63
45	Carl	19	↓8	25
46	David	19	↓4	28
47	Fred	19	new	33
48	Eugene	18	new	35
49	Leonard	18	new	41
50	Theodore	18	↓7	64

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