Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1920

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1920 were Mary for girls (156 babies) and Robert for boys (222). Robert ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,703 babies born in New Hampshire in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1920

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: 20 babies, 54.6× the national rate
Juliette: 18 babies, 32.4× the national rate
Cecile: 30 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 44 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 26 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Rita: 110 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Barbara: 99 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Beverly: 15 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Constance: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Arlene: 21 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Adrien: 15 babies, 147× the national rate
Romeo: 15 babies, 49.5× the national rate
Armand: 31 babies, 32.7× the national rate
Lionel: 17 babies, 21.4× the national rate
Gerard: 18 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Roger: 60 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Roland: 49 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Wilfred: 26 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Maurice: 40 babies, 8× the national rate
Frederick: 29 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	156	–	1
2	Dorothy	136	–	2
3	Helen	120	↑1	3
4	Rita	110	↑1	52
5	Ruth	102	↓2	5
6	Barbara	99	↑1	47
7	Irene	83	↑5	17
8	Florence	78	↑9	16
9	Doris	73	↓1	14
10	Elizabeth	73	↑4	8
11	Margaret	68	↓2	4
12	Alice	65	↓6	15
13	Virginia	64	↑6	7
14	Eleanor	59	↓1	25
15	Lucille	58	↑9	29
16	Marion	57	↑2	43
17	Lillian	55	↓1	18
18	Mildred	55	↑3	6
19	Evelyn	54	↓8	12
20	Pauline	45	↓10	36
21	Beatrice	44	↓6	41
22	Jeannette	44	↑16	>100
23	Marjorie	42	↓3	24
24	Frances	37	↓2	9
25	Phyllis	37	↑4	72
26	Catherine	33	↑19	21
27	Gertrude	32	↓2	42
28	Katherine	32	↑8	45
29	Cecile	30	↓3	>100
30	Louise	28	↓7	19
31	Marie	28	↓3	13
32	Anna	26	↓1	10
33	Priscilla	26	new	>100
34	Eva	25	–	58
35	Jeanne	25	new	>100
36	Shirley	25	new	56
37	Edna	24	↑9	27
38	Rose	24	↓6	20
39	Anita	23	new	>100
40	Charlotte	23	new	79
41	Julia	23	new	55
42	Ellen	22	new	92
43	Lorraine	22	↑7	70
44	Arlene	21	↓1	>100
45	Bernice	21	new	40
46	Gladys	21	↓11	22
47	Hazel	21	–	34
48	Bertha	20	↓15	57
49	Christine	20	new	>100
50	Josephine	20	↓10	28

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Robert	222	–	3
2	John	153	↑1	1
3	George	114	↓1	6
4	William	111	–	2
5	Richard	104	↑2	10
6	Joseph	88	↑2	7
7	Charles	87	↑2	5
8	Raymond	83	↑3	15
9	James	77	↓3	4
10	Edward	71	↓5	8
11	Arthur	70	↑3	18
12	Paul	70	↓2	14
13	Henry	60	↑13	17
14	Roger	60	↑4	>100
15	Walter	60	–	13
16	Harold	58	↑3	12
17	Albert	57	↓1	19
18	Donald	49	↓1	16
19	Roland	49	↓6	>100
20	Frank	43	↓8	9
21	Ernest	40	↑10	37
22	Maurice	40	–	>100
23	Francis	39	↓2	34
24	Leo	34	↓1	48
25	Ralph	34	↓5	22
26	Stanley	32	↓1	40
27	Thomas	32	↓3	11
28	Armand	31	↑13	>100
29	Louis	31	↓1	28
30	Alfred	30	↓3	42
31	Frederick	29	↑11	60
32	David	28	↓2	25
33	Norman	28	↓4	47
34	Kenneth	27	↓2	23
35	Harry	26	↑9	21
36	Wilfred	26	↑11	>100
37	Fred	25	–	33
38	Lawrence	25	new	36
39	Herbert	24	new	41
40	Peter	24	↑5	57
41	Philip	24	↓1	71
42	Howard	23	new	24
43	Earl	22	new	31
44	Carl	21	↓5	27
45	Clarence	21	↓11	26
46	Bernard	18	↓8	46
47	Gerard	18	↓12	>100
48	Russell	18	↓15	51
49	Lionel	17	↓3	>100
50	Adrien	15	new	>100

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