Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1928

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1928 were Mary for girls (151 babies) and Robert for boys (290). Social Security records list 6,489 babies born in New Hampshire in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1928

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, 30.6× the national rate
Madeleine: 15 babies, 30.2× the national rate
Priscilla: 45 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 36 babies, 14× the national rate
Therese: 30 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Claire: 45 babies, 9× the national rate
Theresa: 115 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Annette: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Madeline: 22 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Muriel: 27 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Rene: 18 babies, 30.7× the national rate
Armand: 24 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Gerard: 32 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Roland: 57 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Maurice: 48 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Roger: 75 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Leo: 50 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Gordon: 29 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Norman: 55 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Philip: 23 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	151	–	1
2	Theresa	115	–	49
3	Barbara	110	–	8
4	Dorothy	110	–	3
5	Doris	89	–	7
6	Pauline	80	–	48
7	Lorraine	78	↑4	39
8	Helen	77	↑2	4
9	Shirley	76	↑6	10
10	Rita	67	↓1	57
11	Irene	64	↓4	28
12	Margaret	59	↑1	5
13	Ruth	56	↓5	6
14	Marjorie	53	↓2	29
15	Lucille	52	↑8	51
16	Patricia	50	↑12	11
17	Elizabeth	48	↓3	14
18	Alice	47	↑1	19
19	Beverly	46	↑2	46
20	Virginia	46	↓3	9
21	Claire	45	↓3	>100
22	Marion	45	↓6	47
23	Priscilla	45	↑26	>100
24	Jean	44	↑3	12
25	Phyllis	44	↓1	26
26	Betty	41	↑10	2
27	Beatrice	40	new	70
28	Lillian	37	↑12	35
29	Jeannette	36	↑8	>100
30	Florence	34	↓1	32
31	Eleanor	32	↓5	36
32	Evelyn	32	↓10	17
33	Jane	32	↑12	62
34	Louise	32	↓2	31
35	Gloria	30	↓5	25
36	Therese	30	↓16	>100
37	Cecile	29	↓2	>100
38	Marie	29	↓13	21
39	Joan	27	↑8	27
40	Muriel	27	new	>100
41	June	25	↑1	44
42	Nancy	24	new	43
43	Frances	22	↓10	13
44	Madeline	22	new	>100
45	Joyce	21	new	30
46	Mildred	21	↓8	15
47	Charlotte	20	↓4	72
48	Gertrude	20	new	86
49	Norma	20	↓18	23
50	Jacqueline	19	new	97

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Robert	290	–	1
2	Richard	173	↑1	6
3	John	148	↓1	2
4	William	120	↑2	4
5	Donald	107	–	7
6	George	103	↓2	8
7	Paul	99	↑1	13
8	Charles	84	↑1	5
9	James	78	↑1	3
10	Roger	75	↑7	71
11	Raymond	72	↓4	16
12	Arthur	71	↓1	22
13	Joseph	70	↑2	9
14	Edward	64	↓1	10
15	Roland	57	↓3	>100
16	Norman	55	↑8	39
17	Leo	50	↑12	61
18	Frank	48	↑2	12
19	Maurice	48	↑2	>100
20	David	46	↑6	19
21	Kenneth	43	↑6	17
22	Albert	40	↓8	23
23	Alfred	38	↑14	33
24	Ernest	38	↓8	43
25	Harold	38	↓2	14
26	Walter	37	↓7	18
27	Henry	36	↓5	21
28	Francis	32	↓3	40
29	Gerard	32	↑3	>100
30	Louis	30	new	32
31	Gordon	29	↑8	77
32	Harry	29	↑4	26
33	Lawrence	29	↓5	38
34	Ralph	29	↓4	24
35	Thomas	29	↓17	11
36	Herbert	27	↑2	25
37	Armand	24	↓2	>100
38	Frederick	23	new	67
39	Philip	23	↓5	73
40	Gerald	21	↓9	41
41	Bernard	20	↓8	49
42	Eugene	20	new	20
43	Carl	19	↑2	28
44	Leon	19	↑2	81
45	Rene	18	new	>100
46	Leonard	17	↑4	42
47	Edwin	16	new	58
48	Russell	15	↓1	55
49	Andrew	14	new	60
50	Clarence	14	new	35

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