Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1926

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1926 were Mary for girls (137 babies) and Robert for boys (279). Social Security records list 6,435 babies born in New Hampshire in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1926

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

Cecile: 29 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Therese: 37 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Priscilla: 30 babies, 13× the national rate
Jeannette: 26 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Theresa: 107 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Rita: 105 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Claire: 32 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Madeline: 22 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Pauline: 92 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Muriel: 27 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 22 babies, 40.5× the national rate
Gerard: 26 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Maurice: 61 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Roland: 54 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Roger: 60 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Wilfred: 17 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Philip: 33 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Leo: 37 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Gordon: 27 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Norman: 47 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	137	–	1
2	Theresa	107	↑10	64
3	Rita	105	–	50
4	Barbara	102	–	16
5	Dorothy	98	↓3	2
6	Ruth	96	↑3	6
7	Pauline	92	–	39
8	Helen	88	↓3	4
9	Doris	84	↑1	7
10	Irene	69	↓4	21
11	Virginia	62	↓3	8
12	Margaret	57	↑4	5
13	Elizabeth	56	–	11
14	Alice	50	↑1	17
15	Shirley	45	↓4	14
16	Lorraine	44	↑7	53
17	Eleanor	43	↑10	32
18	Florence	42	↑8	26
19	Gloria	42	↑3	20
20	Phyllis	42	↓3	33
21	Marjorie	41	↑3	22
22	Evelyn	38	↓4	13
23	Lucille	37	↓9	43
24	Therese	37	↑8	>100
25	Jean	36	↑5	12
26	Beverly	34	↑17	74
27	Marion	34	↓6	47
28	Lillian	33	↓3	28
29	Claire	32	new	>100
30	Marie	31	↓10	18
31	Patricia	31	–	23
32	Louise	30	↓4	27
33	Priscilla	30	↑11	>100
34	Cecile	29	↑2	>100
35	Frances	27	↓16	10
36	Muriel	27	new	>100
37	Jeannette	26	↑4	>100
38	Joan	25	new	51
39	Norma	24	↓4	29
40	Beatrice	23	↓11	58
41	Jane	23	new	56
42	Constance	22	new	>100
43	Lois	22	new	19
44	Madeline	22	new	>100
45	Thelma	22	↑4	36
46	Arlene	21	↓4	>100
47	Gertrude	21	↑1	71
48	Mildred	21	↓14	9
49	Betty	20	↓16	3
50	Catherine	20	↓12	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	279	–	1
2	John	161	–	2
3	Richard	133	–	7
4	William	127	–	4
5	George	126	–	6
6	Donald	104	↑6	9
7	Paul	80	↑2	13
8	Raymond	80	–	15
9	Joseph	74	↓3	8
10	Charles	67	–	5
11	Edward	66	↑3	10
12	James	63	↑1	3
13	Maurice	61	↑6	>100
14	Roger	60	↓7	89
15	Arthur	55	↓4	20
16	Roland	54	–	>100
17	Kenneth	49	–	18
18	Henry	47	↑4	19
19	Norman	47	↑1	39
20	Frank	46	↑5	12
21	Harold	45	↓3	14
22	Thomas	42	↑9	11
23	Ernest	41	↑3	37
24	Albert	40	↓9	21
25	David	38	↑7	22
26	Leo	37	↓2	54
27	Ralph	37	↑6	24
28	Francis	34	↓7	35
29	Philip	33	↓1	70
30	Bernard	30	↑20	49
31	Gordon	27	↑11	76
32	Walter	27	↓3	17
33	Gerard	26	↓3	>100
34	Harry	26	↑4	25
35	Fred	24	↑10	31
36	Alfred	22	↓13	45
37	Normand	22	new	>100
38	Russell	22	new	52
39	Gerald	21	↑2	41
40	Lawrence	21	↓13	36
41	Clarence	20	new	29
42	Howard	20	new	27
43	Daniel	19	new	46
44	Earl	17	↓9	32
45	Eugene	17	↑2	23
46	Herbert	17	↓7	44
47	Louis	17	↓4	30
48	Stanley	17	↓14	43
49	Wilfred	17	–	>100
50	Chester	16	new	79

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