Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1924

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1924 were Mary for girls (167 babies) and Robert for boys (279). Social Security records list 7,246 babies born in New Hampshire in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1924

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, 40.4× the national rate
Therese: 26 babies, 29.7× the national rate
Cecile: 26 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 39 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Priscilla: 32 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Claire: 34 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Rita: 109 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Theresa: 52 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Constance: 25 babies, 5× the national rate
Rachel: 22 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 18 babies, 38.3× the national rate
Marcel: 15 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Armand: 27 babies, 27.6× the national rate
Lionel: 17 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Gerard: 25 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Reginald: 15 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Roger: 74 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Roland: 64 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Maurice: 57 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Wilfred: 16 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	167	–	1
2	Dorothy	137	–	2
3	Rita	109	↑1	49
4	Ruth	104	↑4	6
5	Helen	101	↑1	3
6	Doris	99	↓3	9
7	Barbara	96	↓2	28
8	Pauline	89	↓1	38
9	Virginia	77	↑3	7
10	Margaret	72	–	5
11	Irene	68	↓2	18
12	Marion	64	↑4	46
13	Elizabeth	62	↓2	11
14	Shirley	58	↑11	19
15	Alice	54	↓1	15
16	Theresa	52	↑12	96
17	Louise	48	↑17	24
18	Lucille	48	↑5	37
19	Florence	45	↓4	20
20	Evelyn	44	↓7	12
21	Phyllis	42	↑3	44
22	Lorraine	41	↑7	52
23	Marjorie	40	↓3	17
24	Gloria	39	↑8	41
25	Jeannette	39	↑8	>100
26	Frances	38	↓4	10
27	Marie	38	↓8	14
28	Mildred	37	↓1	8
29	Eleanor	36	↓12	29
30	Jean	36	–	16
31	Claire	34	–	>100
32	Lillian	33	↓14	23
33	Beatrice	32	↓12	50
34	Priscilla	32	new	>100
35	Catherine	31	↑5	27
36	Gertrude	31	↓10	60
37	Gladys	30	new	30
38	Charlotte	29	new	80
39	Arlene	26	↓4	>100
40	Cecile	26	↑6	>100
41	Patricia	26	new	35
42	Therese	26	new	>100
43	Constance	25	↓2	>100
44	Norma	25	↓1	40
45	Anna	24	–	13
46	Rose	24	↓10	25
47	Anita	22	new	>100
48	Betty	22	↓11	4
49	Rachel	22	–	>100
50	Edith	21	↓12	36

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	279	–	1
2	John	175	–	2
3	Richard	134	↑2	8
4	William	129	–	3
5	George	108	↓2	6
6	Charles	96	↑8	5
7	Joseph	94	↑4	7
8	Edward	84	↑7	9
9	James	84	↑3	4
10	Raymond	84	↑3	15
11	Paul	79	↓3	14
12	Donald	75	↓6	10
13	Roger	74	↓6	93
14	Arthur	71	↓4	20
15	Roland	64	↓6	98
16	Maurice	57	↑4	>100
17	Albert	50	–	21
18	Harold	49	–	13
19	Henry	48	↑4	18
20	Walter	48	↓4	16
21	Francis	47	↑1	34
22	Frank	46	↓1	12
23	Norman	44	↓4	42
24	Thomas	43	↑4	11
25	Ernest	41	↓1	37
26	Kenneth	41	↑1	19
27	Leo	36	↓2	51
28	Alfred	35	↑2	43
29	Herbert	30	↑8	41
30	Bernard	29	↑9	46
31	Frederick	29	↓2	62
32	Harry	29	↑2	22
33	Ralph	29	↓7	23
34	Armand	27	↓1	>100
35	David	27	↓4	24
36	Fred	25	new	32
37	Gerard	25	↓5	>100
38	Leonard	25	↑8	38
39	Louis	25	↑8	28
40	Philip	24	↓4	71
41	Howard	23	new	26
42	Lawrence	23	↓7	36
43	Earl	22	new	33
44	Russell	22	↓6	52
45	Gerald	21	new	49
46	Peter	21	new	59
47	Gordon	19	new	75
48	Theodore	19	new	65
49	Carl	18	↓1	27
50	Normand	18	new	>100

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