Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1921

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1921 were Mary for girls (182 babies) and Robert for boys (249). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,984 babies born in New Hampshire in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1921

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, 41.4× the national rate
Cecile: 29 babies, 20.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 34 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 21 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Rita: 128 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Yvonne: 17 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Claire: 21 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Rachel: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Anita: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Olive: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Lucien: 17 babies, 39.3× the national rate
Emile: 17 babies, 33.6× the national rate
Lionel: 18 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Roland: 70 babies, 14× the national rate
Gerard: 22 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Maurice: 54 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Roger: 54 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Leo: 54 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	182	–	1
2	Rita	128	↑2	48
3	Dorothy	126	↓1	2
4	Ruth	109	↑1	5
5	Helen	101	↓2	3
6	Irene	85	↑1	18
7	Margaret	83	↑4	4
8	Doris	80	↑1	13
9	Barbara	76	↓3	40
10	Alice	74	↑2	15
11	Virginia	73	↑2	6
12	Lucille	64	↑3	31
13	Elizabeth	61	↓3	10
14	Pauline	59	↑6	37
15	Marjorie	57	↑8	16
16	Eleanor	54	↓2	29
17	Louise	53	↑13	22
18	Marion	53	↓2	43
19	Evelyn	52	–	12
20	Florence	48	↓12	17
21	Beatrice	46	–	41
22	Mildred	46	↓4	7
23	Frances	44	↑1	9
24	Lillian	44	↓7	19
25	Marie	40	↑6	14
26	Phyllis	38	↓1	60
27	Gertrude	37	–	46
28	Jeannette	34	↓6	>100
29	Hazel	33	↑18	34
30	Shirley	31	↑6	44
31	Blanche	29	new	>100
32	Catherine	29	↓6	23
33	Cecile	29	↓4	>100
34	Bertha	28	↑14	59
35	Charlotte	28	↑5	79
36	Katherine	27	↓8	49
37	Anita	26	↑2	>100
38	Edith	26	new	33
39	Theresa	25	new	>100
40	Edna	24	↓3	27
41	Agnes	23	new	56
42	Rachel	23	new	>100
43	Arlene	22	↑1	>100
44	Gladys	22	↑2	24
45	Grace	22	new	35
46	Norma	22	new	51
47	Claire	21	new	>100
48	Marguerite	21	new	98
49	Olive	21	new	>100
50	Priscilla	21	↓17	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Robert	249	–	2
2	John	166	–	1
3	George	129	–	6
4	William	120	–	3
5	James	108	↑4	4
6	Richard	103	↓1	10
7	Charles	99	–	5
8	Raymond	93	–	16
9	Joseph	92	↓3	7
10	Edward	83	–	8
11	Arthur	71	–	19
12	Roland	70	↑7	>100
13	Paul	61	↓1	14
14	Walter	60	↑1	15
15	Donald	56	↑3	13
16	Harold	56	–	12
17	Leo	54	↑7	50
18	Maurice	54	↑4	>100
19	Roger	54	↓5	99
20	Francis	53	↑3	35
21	Frank	53	↓1	9
22	Albert	51	↓5	20
23	Henry	47	↓10	17
24	Ralph	45	↑1	23
25	Ernest	42	↓4	38
26	Warren	39	new	24
27	Kenneth	38	↑7	22
28	Thomas	38	↓1	11
29	Norman	37	↑4	46
30	Harry	36	↑5	21
31	Alfred	34	↓1	43
32	Leonard	32	new	39
33	Philip	31	↑8	72
34	Stanley	31	↓8	41
35	Lawrence	29	↑3	37
36	Howard	27	↑6	27
37	Peter	24	↑3	57
38	Herbert	23	↑1	42
39	Louis	23	↓10	29
40	Gerard	22	↑7	>100
41	Bernard	21	↑5	45
42	Clarence	21	↑3	28
43	Fred	21	↓6	33
44	Leon	21	new	74
45	Everett	20	new	95
46	Frederick	20	↓15	61
47	David	19	↓15	25
48	Gerald	19	new	60
49	Andrew	18	new	51
50	Lionel	18	↓1	>100

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