Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1929

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1929 were Barbara for girls (114 babies) and Robert for boys (297). Barbara ranked #7 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,300 babies born in New Hampshire in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1929

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: 15 babies, 41× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 26.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 31 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Therese: 21 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Estelle: 21 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 20 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Rita: 91 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Claire: 31 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Constance: 23 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Theresa: 84 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 37 babies, 56× the national rate
Rene: 16 babies, 27.3× the national rate
Armand: 20 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Gerard: 22 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Maurice: 50 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Roland: 61 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Roger: 64 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Francis: 57 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Leo: 33 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Gordon: 26 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Barbara	114	↑2	7
2	Mary	107	↓1	1
3	Dorothy	94	↑1	3
4	Rita	91	↑6	52
5	Theresa	84	↓3	49
6	Doris	82	↓1	6
7	Pauline	79	↓1	50
8	Lorraine	76	↓1	42
9	Patricia	75	↑7	10
10	Elizabeth	65	↑7	15
11	Shirley	60	↓2	9
12	Irene	59	↓1	29
13	Ruth	56	–	8
14	Jean	55	↑10	12
15	Virginia	55	↑5	11
16	Margaret	52	↓4	5
17	Beverly	51	↑2	39
18	Helen	51	↓10	4
19	Marion	49	↑3	53
20	Joan	43	↑19	13
21	Betty	42	↑5	2
22	Gloria	38	↑13	28
23	Phyllis	38	↑2	24
24	Alice	37	↓6	21
25	Louise	37	↑9	31
26	Lucille	36	↓11	57
27	Marjorie	34	↓13	30
28	Claire	31	↓7	>100
29	Eleanor	31	↑2	38
30	Evelyn	31	↑2	19
31	Priscilla	31	↓8	>100
32	Arlene	30	new	>100
33	Marie	29	↑5	22
34	Marilyn	29	new	33
35	Beatrice	28	↓8	72
36	Florence	28	↓6	35
37	Norma	28	↑12	25
38	Frances	27	↑5	16
39	June	26	↑2	48
40	Elaine	24	new	67
41	Nancy	24	↑1	32
42	Cecile	23	↓5	>100
43	Constance	23	new	>100
44	Lois	23	new	17
45	Jacqueline	22	↑5	87
46	Lillian	22	↓18	40
47	Estelle	21	new	>100
48	Rose	21	new	26
49	Therese	21	↓13	>100
50	Jeannette	20	↓21	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Robert	297	–	1
2	Richard	188	–	6
3	John	162	–	3
4	Donald	123	↑1	7
5	William	108	↓1	4
6	Paul	93	↑1	13
7	George	87	↓1	8
8	Raymond	86	↑3	15
9	Charles	77	↓1	5
10	Edward	73	↑4	10
11	Arthur	71	↑1	22
12	James	69	↓3	2
13	Roger	64	↓3	64
14	Joseph	62	↓1	9
15	Roland	61	–	>100
16	Francis	57	↑12	39
17	Albert	50	↑5	24
18	Maurice	50	↑1	>100
19	Norman	48	↓3	40
20	Henry	44	↑7	21
21	Kenneth	39	–	18
22	Harold	38	↑3	16
23	Normand	37	new	>100
24	Walter	35	↑2	19
25	Leo	33	↓8	60
26	Ralph	33	↑8	26
27	Alfred	32	↓4	41
28	Herbert	32	↑8	25
29	Thomas	32	↑6	11
30	David	30	↓10	17
31	Frank	29	↓13	12
32	Clarence	27	↑18	37
33	Ernest	27	↓9	43
34	Stanley	27	new	48
35	Frederick	26	↑3	67
36	Gordon	26	↓5	79
37	Eugene	25	↑5	20
38	Gerard	22	↓9	>100
39	Peter	21	new	55
40	Philip	21	↓1	76
41	Armand	20	↓4	>100
42	Bernard	20	↓1	52
43	Carl	19	–	28
44	Gerald	19	↓4	33
45	Howard	19	new	31
46	Lawrence	19	↓13	38
47	Harry	17	↓15	27
48	Fred	16	new	34
49	Louis	16	↓19	32
50	Rene	16	↓5	>100

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