Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1931

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1931 were Barbara for girls (118 babies) and Robert for boys (303). Barbara ranked #4 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 5,928 babies born in New Hampshire in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1931

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: 19 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 36 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 27 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Claire: 34 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Pauline: 76 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lorraine: 80 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Muriel: 17 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Theresa: 59 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Rachel: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Rita: 56 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 25 babies, 46.4× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Gerard: 21 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Maurice: 51 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Roland: 40 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Roger: 77 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Leo: 33 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Leon: 25 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Philip: 23 babies, 3× the national rate
Norman: 43 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Barbara	118	–	4
2	Mary	110	–	1
3	Lorraine	80	↑8	49
4	Pauline	76	↑1	56
5	Shirley	76	↑9	9
6	Dorothy	67	–	3
7	Doris	62	↓4	10
8	Joan	62	↑1	5
9	Patricia	60	↓1	8
10	Theresa	59	↓3	59
11	Helen	56	↓1	6
12	Rita	56	↓8	48
13	Beverly	54	–	31
14	Ruth	51	↑1	11
15	Irene	50	↑2	37
16	Betty	49	↑2	2
17	Elizabeth	48	↑2	16
18	Jean	46	↓6	13
19	Nancy	43	↑8	17
20	Phyllis	41	↑10	29
21	Gloria	39	↑8	23
22	Lucille	39	↑3	62
23	Virginia	39	↑1	12
24	Alice	38	↑4	21
25	Margaret	36	↓9	7
26	Priscilla	36	↓6	>100
27	Marilyn	35	↑6	19
28	Claire	34	↓2	>100
29	Norma	34	new	22
30	Marjorie	33	↓7	34
31	Evelyn	30	↓9	24
32	Jacqueline	30	↑18	78
33	June	30	↑4	44
34	Ann	29	new	35
35	Eleanor	29	↓4	40
36	Marion	28	↑6	66
37	Jeannette	27	↓1	>100
38	Lillian	27	↑5	47
39	Jane	26	↓7	50
40	Janet	26	↓5	45
41	Louise	26	↓1	33
42	Constance	25	new	>100
43	Florence	25	new	43
44	Marie	24	↓3	27
45	Jeanne	23	↓6	98
46	Frances	22	↓12	18
47	Joyce	22	↓26	15
48	Anita	20	new	>100
49	Lois	20	↓1	20
50	Cecile	19	↓6	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	303	–	1
2	Richard	193	–	5
3	Donald	144	↑1	7
4	John	135	↓1	3
5	William	118	–	4
6	George	98	↑2	8
7	James	84	↑3	2
8	Raymond	82	↓1	17
9	Paul	77	↓3	12
10	Roger	77	↑3	53
11	Charles	65	↓2	6
12	Joseph	61	↓1	9
13	Maurice	51	↑4	>100
14	David	50	↑2	13
15	Arthur	46	↓1	23
16	Kenneth	43	↑4	14
17	Norman	43	↑2	36
18	Albert	42	↓3	24
19	Edward	42	↓7	11
20	Harold	42	↑4	18
21	Roland	40	↓3	>100
22	Frank	37	↑15	16
23	Walter	35	↑2	20
24	Thomas	34	↑8	10
25	Leo	33	↓3	69
26	Francis	32	↓5	42
27	Ronald	30	↑7	27
28	Ernest	29	–	47
29	Alfred	27	↑13	50
30	Stanley	27	↓4	49
31	Henry	25	↓8	22
32	Leon	25	↑9	84
33	Normand	25	↑6	>100
34	Ralph	25	↓3	25
35	Harry	23	↓2	30
36	Philip	23	↑13	71
37	Eugene	21	↑9	21
38	Gerard	21	↓8	>100
39	Fred	20	new	33
40	Clarence	18	new	39
41	Frederick	18	↑2	73
42	Gerald	18	↓13	26
43	Gordon	18	new	76
44	Armand	17	↓9	>100
45	Lawrence	17	↓18	38
46	Bernard	15	↓10	54
47	Leonard	15	↑1	48
48	Andrew	14	new	65
49	Carl	14	new	28
50	Daniel	14	–	44

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