Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1919

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1919 were Mary for girls (181 babies) and Robert for boys (182). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,952 babies born in New Hampshire in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1919

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: 19 babies, 58.9× the national rate
Cecile: 33 babies, 24.6× the national rate
Yvonne: 19 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Annette: 20 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 25 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Claire: 22 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Rita: 82 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Barbara: 67 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rachel: 24 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Arlene: 21 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 18 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Lionel: 16 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Gerard: 24 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Roger: 44 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Maurice: 39 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Wilfred: 16 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Leon: 24 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Leo: 38 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Stephen: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	181	–	1
2	Dorothy	113	–	3
3	Ruth	112	↑1	5
4	Helen	88	↓1	2
5	Rita	82	↑3	54
6	Alice	67	↑3	13
7	Barbara	67	↑4	60
8	Doris	64	↓1	18
9	Margaret	63	↓3	4
10	Pauline	58	↑4	36
11	Evelyn	57	↑2	11
12	Irene	57	↓7	16
13	Eleanor	54	↑2	30
14	Elizabeth	53	↓2	8
15	Beatrice	52	↑4	41
16	Lillian	47	↑5	17
17	Florence	46	–	14
18	Marion	46	↑2	44
19	Virginia	45	↓3	7
20	Marjorie	41	↑12	33
21	Mildred	41	↑9	6
22	Frances	39	↓12	9
23	Louise	38	↑5	20
24	Lucille	36	↓6	27
25	Gertrude	34	↓2	39
26	Cecile	33	↑17	>100
27	Grace	33	↑19	34
28	Marie	33	↓4	12
29	Phyllis	31	↓3	84
30	Stella	30	↓1	70
31	Anna	29	↑2	10
32	Rose	27	↓1	19
33	Bertha	26	new	52
34	Eva	26	↑1	55
35	Gladys	26	↓10	21
36	Katherine	26	↑1	51
37	Thelma	26	↓10	31
38	Jeannette	25	new	>100
39	Rachel	24	new	>100
40	Josephine	23	↓4	26
41	Claire	22	new	>100
42	Edith	22	↓4	29
43	Arlene	21	↓3	>100
44	Annette	20	new	>100
45	Catherine	20	↓23	23
46	Edna	20	new	22
47	Hazel	20	↓6	32
48	Ann	19	new	49
49	Ethel	19	new	28
50	Lorraine	19	↓6	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Robert	182	↑1	4
2	George	131	↑1	6
3	John	120	↓2	1
4	William	105	–	2
5	Edward	86	–	8
6	James	85	↑4	3
7	Richard	85	–	12
8	Joseph	84	↓2	7
9	Charles	72	↓1	5
10	Paul	66	↑2	15
11	Raymond	65	↓2	14
12	Frank	62	↑14	9
13	Roland	53	↑9	>100
14	Arthur	51	↓3	19
15	Walter	48	↑1	11
16	Albert	45	↓3	18
17	Donald	45	↓2	17
18	Roger	44	↑2	>100
19	Harold	43	↑6	13
20	Ralph	42	↑12	22
21	Francis	39	↓2	34
22	Maurice	39	↑8	>100
23	Leo	38	↑1	49
24	Thomas	38	↓1	10
25	Stanley	36	↑3	37
26	Henry	35	↓12	16
27	Alfred	33	↑4	42
28	Louis	31	↓1	28
29	Norman	29	↓8	48
30	David	26	↑16	27
31	Ernest	26	↓14	36
32	Kenneth	26	↓14	26
33	Russell	26	↑10	50
34	Clarence	25	new	25
35	Gerard	24	↑5	>100
36	Leon	24	new	80
37	Fred	20	↑10	30
38	Bernard	19	↓2	45
39	Carl	19	↑6	29
40	Philip	19	↓5	71
41	Armand	18	↓2	>100
42	Frederick	18	↓9	64
43	Andrew	17	new	47
44	Harry	17	↓15	20
45	Peter	17	↓3	57
46	Lionel	16	new	>100
47	Wilfred	16	new	>100
48	Daniel	15	new	51
49	Gordon	15	new	86
50	Leonard	15	↓1	39

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