Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1927

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1927 were Mary for girls (136 babies) and Robert for boys (304). Social Security records list 6,556 babies born in New Hampshire in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1927

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, 42.8× the national rate
Cecile: 29 babies, 28.2× the national rate
Therese: 47 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 27 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Claire: 48 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 23 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Theresa: 119 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Annette: 17 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Constance: 22 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Rita: 70 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Marcel: 16 babies, 39.1× the national rate
Lucien: 16 babies, 38.3× the national rate
Normand: 21 babies, 37.4× the national rate
Armand: 25 babies, 30.8× the national rate
Lionel: 17 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Gerard: 28 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Roland: 67 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Maurice: 42 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 17 babies, 8× the national rate
Roger: 47 babies, 6.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	136	–	1
2	Theresa	119	–	52
3	Barbara	106	↑1	10
4	Dorothy	106	↑1	2
5	Doris	87	↑4	7
6	Pauline	79	↑1	42
7	Irene	75	↑3	21
8	Ruth	72	↓2	6
9	Rita	70	↓6	54
10	Helen	63	↓2	4
11	Lorraine	60	↑5	44
12	Marjorie	59	↑9	25
13	Margaret	56	↓1	5
14	Elizabeth	53	↓1	13
15	Shirley	52	–	9
16	Marion	51	↑11	51
17	Virginia	50	↓6	8
18	Claire	48	↑11	>100
19	Alice	47	↓5	17
20	Therese	47	↑4	>100
21	Beverly	44	↑5	57
22	Evelyn	43	–	15
23	Lucille	43	–	45
24	Phyllis	43	↓4	29
25	Marie	42	↑5	20
26	Eleanor	40	↓9	33
27	Jean	40	↓2	14
28	Patricia	38	↑3	18
29	Florence	36	↓11	28
30	Gloria	36	↓11	22
31	Norma	33	↑8	26
32	Louise	32	–	27
33	Frances	31	↑2	12
34	Arlene	30	↑12	>100
35	Cecile	29	↓1	>100
36	Betty	28	↑13	3
37	Jeannette	27	–	>100
38	Mildred	27	↑10	11
39	Carolyn	26	new	99
40	Lillian	26	↓12	32
41	Elaine	25	new	69
42	June	25	new	43
43	Charlotte	24	new	75
44	Marilyn	24	new	46
45	Jane	23	↓4	60
46	Jeanne	23	new	85
47	Joan	23	↓9	41
48	Marguerite	23	new	>100
49	Priscilla	23	↓16	>100
50	Catherine	22	–	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	304	–	1
2	John	167	–	2
3	Richard	148	–	6
4	George	138	↑1	7
5	Donald	103	↑1	8
6	William	103	↓2	4
7	Raymond	93	↑1	15
8	Paul	82	↓1	13
9	Charles	71	↑1	5
10	James	68	↑2	3
11	Arthur	67	↑4	22
12	Roland	67	↑4	>100
13	Edward	66	↓2	10
14	Albert	63	↑10	23
15	Joseph	60	↓6	9
16	Ernest	49	↑7	41
17	Roger	47	↓3	84
18	Thomas	45	↑4	11
19	Walter	43	↑13	17
20	Frank	42	–	12
21	Maurice	42	↓8	>100
22	Henry	41	↓4	19
23	Harold	39	↓2	14
24	Norman	39	↓5	39
25	Francis	38	↑3	36
26	David	37	↓1	21
27	Kenneth	37	↓10	18
28	Lawrence	36	↑12	37
29	Leo	33	↓3	55
30	Ralph	33	↓3	24
31	Gerald	28	↑8	38
32	Gerard	28	↑1	>100
33	Bernard	27	↓3	50
34	Philip	27	↓5	75
35	Armand	25	new	>100
36	Harry	25	↓2	25
37	Alfred	24	↓1	45
38	Herbert	24	↑8	42
39	Gordon	22	↓8	74
40	Howard	22	↑2	28
41	Stanley	22	↑7	44
42	Normand	21	↓5	>100
43	Earl	20	↑1	33
44	Ronald	19	new	63
45	Carl	18	new	26
46	Leon	18	new	78
47	Russell	18	↓9	54
48	Theodore	18	new	62
49	Daniel	17	↓6	46
50	Leonard	17	new	40

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