Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1930

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1930 were Barbara for girls (132 babies) and Robert for boys (310). Barbara ranked #6 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,359 babies born in New Hampshire in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1930

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: 24 babies, 29.1× the national rate
Priscilla: 43 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Therese: 29 babies, 18× the national rate
Jeannette: 29 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Claire: 37 babies, 8× the national rate
Pauline: 80 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Theresa: 76 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Rita: 82 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Madeline: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Marguerite: 18 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 21 babies, 34.7× the national rate
Armand: 22 babies, 31× the national rate
Gerard: 29 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Wilfred: 21 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Maurice: 49 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Roland: 48 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Roger: 66 babies, 7× the national rate
Leo: 41 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Norman: 47 babies, 3× the national rate
Raymond: 97 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Barbara	132	–	6
2	Mary	124	–	1
3	Doris	85	↑3	9
4	Rita	82	–	42
5	Pauline	80	↑2	52
6	Dorothy	76	↓3	3
7	Theresa	76	↓2	50
8	Patricia	74	↑1	7
9	Joan	68	↑11	8
10	Helen	66	↑8	4
11	Lorraine	65	↓3	46
12	Jean	63	↑2	14
13	Beverly	56	↑4	34
14	Shirley	53	↓3	11
15	Ruth	50	↓2	10
16	Margaret	49	–	5
17	Irene	48	↓5	33
18	Betty	45	↑3	2
19	Elizabeth	44	↓9	15
20	Priscilla	43	↑11	>100
21	Joyce	42	new	18
22	Evelyn	41	↑8	19
23	Marjorie	40	↑4	32
24	Virginia	39	↓9	12
25	Lucille	38	↑1	59
26	Claire	37	↑2	>100
27	Nancy	37	↑14	24
28	Alice	36	↓4	20
29	Gloria	36	↓7	30
30	Phyllis	33	↓7	28
31	Eleanor	31	↓2	39
32	Jane	30	new	55
33	Marilyn	30	↑1	22
34	Frances	29	↑4	16
35	Janet	29	new	53
36	Jeannette	29	↑14	>100
37	June	29	↑2	47
38	Therese	29	↑11	>100
39	Jeanne	28	new	92
40	Louise	26	↓15	31
41	Marie	26	↓8	26
42	Marion	26	↓23	60
43	Lillian	25	↑3	44
44	Cecile	24	↓2	>100
45	Elaine	24	↓5	69
46	Mildred	23	new	21
47	Catherine	22	new	35
48	Lois	22	↓4	17
49	Beatrice	21	↓14	76
50	Jacqueline	21	↓5	74

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	310	–	1
2	Richard	222	–	5
3	John	182	–	3
4	Donald	132	–	7
5	William	117	–	4
6	Paul	101	–	12
7	Raymond	97	↑1	16
8	George	87	↓1	8
9	Charles	79	–	6
10	James	72	↑2	2
11	Joseph	69	↑3	9
12	Edward	67	↓2	10
13	Roger	66	–	58
14	Arthur	62	↓3	23
15	Albert	56	↑2	24
16	David	51	↑14	15
17	Maurice	49	↑1	>100
18	Roland	48	↓3	>100
19	Norman	47	–	40
20	Kenneth	43	↑1	17
21	Francis	41	↓5	42
22	Leo	41	↑3	63
23	Henry	39	↓3	22
24	Harold	34	↓2	18
25	Walter	33	↓1	19
26	Stanley	32	↑8	49
27	Lawrence	31	↑19	36
28	Ernest	30	↑5	43
29	Gerald	30	↑15	30
30	Gerard	29	↑8	>100
31	Ralph	27	↓5	25
32	Thomas	24	↓3	11
33	Harry	23	↑14	28
34	Ronald	23	new	37
35	Armand	22	↑6	>100
36	Bernard	22	↑6	52
37	Frank	22	↓6	13
38	Louis	22	↑11	34
39	Normand	21	↓16	>100
40	Wilfred	21	new	>100
41	Leon	20	new	81
42	Alfred	19	↓15	46
43	Frederick	19	↓8	74
44	Peter	19	↓5	56
45	Earl	18	new	38
46	Eugene	18	↓9	21
47	Herbert	17	↓19	35
48	Leonard	17	new	45
49	Philip	17	↓9	75
50	Daniel	15	new	47

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