Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1925

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1925 were Mary for girls (154 babies) and Robert for boys (293). Social Security records list 6,760 babies born in New Hampshire in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1925

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

Laurette: 15 babies, 86.6× the national rate
Cecile: 29 babies, 25× the national rate
Therese: 32 babies, 21.1× the national rate
Priscilla: 25 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 26 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Rita: 103 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Theresa: 61 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Yvonne: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Claire: 20 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Pauline: 84 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Marcel: 21 babies, 48× the national rate
Normand: 17 babies, 33.4× the national rate
Armand: 24 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Gerard: 31 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Roger: 86 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Maurice: 51 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Roland: 57 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Philip: 33 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Leo: 39 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	154	–	1
2	Dorothy	118	–	2
3	Rita	103	–	48
4	Barbara	95	↑3	22
5	Helen	85	–	4
6	Irene	84	↑5	19
7	Pauline	84	↑1	38
8	Virginia	82	↑1	7
9	Ruth	79	↓5	6
10	Doris	74	↓4	8
11	Shirley	72	↑3	17
12	Theresa	61	↑4	80
13	Elizabeth	60	–	10
14	Lucille	58	↑4	41
15	Alice	52	–	15
16	Margaret	51	↓6	5
17	Phyllis	51	↑4	40
18	Evelyn	47	↑2	12
19	Frances	47	↑7	11
20	Marie	46	↑7	16
21	Marion	46	↓9	47
22	Gloria	41	↑2	20
23	Lorraine	41	↓1	51
24	Marjorie	41	↓1	21
25	Lillian	40	↑7	25
26	Florence	38	↓7	24
27	Eleanor	37	↑2	31
28	Louise	37	↓11	27
29	Beatrice	33	↑4	50
30	Jean	32	–	14
31	Patricia	32	↑10	28
32	Therese	32	↑10	>100
33	Betty	30	↑15	3
34	Mildred	30	↓6	9
35	Norma	30	↑9	34
36	Cecile	29	↑4	>100
37	June	28	new	39
38	Catherine	27	↓3	29
39	Geraldine	27	new	54
40	Charlotte	26	↓2	77
41	Jeannette	26	↓16	>100
42	Arlene	25	↓3	>100
43	Beverly	25	new	>100
44	Priscilla	25	↓10	>100
45	Edna	24	new	37
46	Jacqueline	24	new	>100
47	Marguerite	23	new	>100
48	Gertrude	22	↓12	70
49	Thelma	22	new	35
50	Anita	21	↓3	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	293	–	1
2	John	173	–	2
3	Richard	146	–	8
4	William	127	–	3
5	George	106	–	6
6	Joseph	98	↑1	7
7	Roger	86	↑6	90
8	Raymond	84	↑2	15
9	Paul	82	↑2	13
10	Charles	81	↓4	5
11	Arthur	80	↑3	20
12	Donald	77	–	10
13	James	73	↓4	4
14	Edward	71	↓6	9
15	Albert	65	↑2	21
16	Roland	57	↓1	98
17	Kenneth	56	↑9	19
18	Harold	53	–	14
19	Maurice	51	↓3	>100
20	Norman	50	↑3	41
21	Francis	49	–	35
22	Henry	47	↓3	18
23	Alfred	42	↑5	43
24	Leo	39	↑3	54
25	Frank	38	↓3	12
26	Ernest	37	↓1	37
27	Lawrence	35	↑15	36
28	Philip	33	↑12	75
29	Walter	32	↓9	16
30	Gerard	31	↑7	>100
31	Thomas	31	↓7	11
32	David	29	↑3	22
33	Ralph	29	–	25
34	Stanley	28	new	40
35	Earl	27	↑8	31
36	Frederick	26	↓5	65
37	Armand	24	↓3	>100
38	Harry	23	↓6	23
39	Herbert	22	↓10	42
40	Leonard	22	↓2	38
41	Gerald	21	↑4	45
42	Gordon	21	↑5	72
43	Louis	21	↓4	29
44	Marcel	21	new	>100
45	Fred	20	↓9	33
46	Carl	18	↑3	28
47	Eugene	18	new	24
48	Theodore	18	–	63
49	Wilfred	18	new	>100
50	Bernard	17	↓20	48

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