Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1922

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1922 were Mary for girls (171 babies) and Robert for boys (250). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,707 babies born in New Hampshire in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1922

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, 46.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 33 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Cecile: 18 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 26 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Claire: 31 babies, 8× the national rate
Rita: 111 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 16 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Rachel: 23 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Barbara: 93 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Arlene: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 23 babies, 25.1× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Gerard: 17 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Roger: 57 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Wilfred: 22 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Maurice: 40 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Philip: 37 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Norman: 59 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Everett: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Frederick: 30 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	171	–	1
2	Dorothy	123	↑1	2
3	Rita	111	↓1	52
4	Doris	99	↑4	11
5	Barbara	93	↑4	40
6	Ruth	90	↓2	5
7	Irene	87	↓1	17
8	Helen	81	↓3	3
9	Virginia	77	↑2	7
10	Margaret	66	↓3	4
11	Alice	62	↓1	15
12	Elizabeth	59	↑1	9
13	Pauline	58	↑1	36
14	Evelyn	55	↑5	13
15	Florence	55	↑5	18
16	Marjorie	55	↓1	16
17	Lillian	52	↑7	19
18	Marion	51	–	42
19	Gertrude	45	↑8	48
20	Mildred	45	↑2	8
21	Eleanor	41	↓5	28
22	Shirley	41	↑8	39
23	Beatrice	38	↓2	43
24	Marie	36	↑1	14
25	Frances	33	↓2	10
26	Priscilla	33	↑24	>100
27	Lucille	32	↓15	33
28	Phyllis	32	↓2	53
29	Claire	31	↑18	>100
30	Lorraine	30	new	56
31	Charlotte	29	↑4	76
32	Louise	27	↓15	22
33	Jeannette	26	↓5	>100
34	Catherine	25	↓2	24
35	Bertha	24	↓1	63
36	Hazel	24	↓7	37
37	Pearl	24	new	71
38	Theresa	24	↑1	>100
39	Arlene	23	↑4	>100
40	Edith	23	↓2	34
41	Katherine	23	↓5	54
42	Rachel	23	–	>100
43	Anna	22	new	12
44	Norma	22	↑2	46
45	Thelma	22	new	31
46	Esther	21	new	44
47	Gloria	21	new	61
48	Julia	21	new	60
49	Constance	20	new	>100
50	Grace	20	↓5	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Robert	250	–	2
2	John	174	–	1
3	George	133	–	6
4	William	114	–	3
5	Richard	102	↑1	9
6	Raymond	88	↑2	16
7	Joseph	86	↑2	7
8	Paul	86	↑5	14
9	Charles	79	↓2	5
10	Edward	77	–	8
11	James	76	↓6	4
12	Donald	69	↑3	12
13	Arthur	66	↓2	19
14	Walter	61	–	15
15	Norman	59	↑14	44
16	Roger	57	↑3	96
17	Frank	55	↑4	10
18	Harold	54	↓2	13
19	Roland	53	↓7	>100
20	Albert	52	↑2	20
21	Henry	52	↑2	17
22	Francis	48	↓2	34
23	Ernest	43	↑2	37
24	Maurice	40	↓6	>100
25	Philip	37	↑8	70
26	Kenneth	36	↑1	21
27	Ralph	35	↓3	23
28	Leo	34	↓11	51
29	Lawrence	32	↑6	36
30	Thomas	31	↓2	11
31	Frederick	30	↑15	60
32	Stanley	29	↑2	41
33	Harry	25	↓3	22
34	Louis	25	↑5	27
35	Armand	23	new	>100
36	David	23	↑11	24
37	Alfred	22	↓6	42
38	Wilfred	22	new	>100
39	Bernard	21	↑2	46
40	Herbert	21	↓2	40
41	Leonard	21	↓9	38
42	Earl	20	new	31
43	Theodore	20	new	62
44	Howard	19	↓8	26
45	Gordon	18	new	76
46	Warren	18	↓20	45
47	Anthony	17	new	39
48	Everett	17	↓3	98
49	Gerard	17	↓9	>100
50	Russell	17	new	49

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