Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1932

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1932 were Barbara for girls (149 babies) and Robert for boys (309). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,110 babies born in New Hampshire in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1932

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

Priscilla: 29 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Claire: 41 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Annette: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 84 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Pauline: 73 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 20 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Constance: 41 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Muriel: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Rita: 63 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Rachel: 18 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 29 babies, 48.5× the national rate
Armand: 20 babies, 32.7× the national rate
Gerard: 23 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Maurice: 52 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Wilfred: 18 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Roland: 44 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Roger: 64 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Leo: 25 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Norman: 45 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Frederick: 21 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Barbara	149	–	3
2	Mary	124	–	1
3	Joan	85	↑5	5
4	Lorraine	84	↓1	55
5	Doris	73	↑2	10
6	Pauline	73	↓2	59
7	Patricia	70	↑2	6
8	Dorothy	69	↓2	4
9	Shirley	68	↓4	9
10	Rita	63	↑2	53
11	Irene	60	↑4	43
12	Elizabeth	51	↑5	17
13	Betty	50	↑3	2
14	Nancy	50	↑5	13
15	Beverly	48	↓2	28
16	Helen	48	↓5	8
17	Margaret	46	↑8	7
18	Theresa	46	↓8	60
19	Jean	44	↓1	15
20	Lucille	44	↑2	63
21	Marilyn	43	↑6	16
22	Ruth	43	↓8	11
23	Claire	41	↑5	>100
24	Constance	41	↑18	99
25	Alice	40	↓1	21
26	Janet	38	↑14	35
27	Phyllis	37	↓7	30
28	Ann	36	↑6	34
29	Eleanor	35	↑6	45
30	Gloria	35	↓9	25
31	Joyce	33	↑16	12
32	Virginia	33	↓9	14
33	Evelyn	31	↓2	23
34	Jane	31	↑5	49
35	Marjorie	31	↓5	37
36	Norma	30	↓7	22
37	Priscilla	29	↓11	>100
38	Jacqueline	28	↓6	85
39	Lois	28	↑10	20
40	Sylvia	27	new	96
41	Frances	26	↑5	19
42	Marie	26	↑2	31
43	Marion	26	↓7	73
44	Lillian	24	↓6	48
45	Florence	22	↓2	47
46	Joanne	22	new	62
47	Edith	21	new	69
48	Carolyn	20	new	46
49	Jeannette	20	↓12	>100
50	Janice	19	new	94

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	309	–	1
2	Richard	216	–	5
3	John	157	↑1	3
4	Donald	144	↓1	7
5	William	127	–	4
6	George	101	–	8
7	James	81	–	2
8	Raymond	80	–	19
9	Paul	79	–	13
10	Charles	70	↑1	6
11	Ronald	65	↑16	16
12	Roger	64	↓2	50
13	Edward	55	↑6	11
14	Maurice	52	↓1	>100
15	David	50	↓1	12
16	Albert	48	↑2	26
17	Arthur	47	↓2	25
18	Norman	45	↓1	37
19	Roland	44	↑2	>100
20	Kenneth	43	↓4	14
21	Joseph	39	↓9	9
22	Thomas	31	↑2	10
23	Frank	30	↓1	15
24	Henry	30	↑7	23
25	Ralph	30	↑9	27
26	Francis	29	–	43
27	Normand	29	↑6	>100
28	Alfred	27	↑1	49
29	Harold	26	↓9	18
30	Ernest	25	↓2	47
31	Eugene	25	↑6	22
32	Leo	25	↓7	74
33	Bernard	24	↑13	60
34	Gerard	23	↑4	>100
35	Herbert	23	new	44
36	Gerald	22	↑6	24
37	Frederick	21	↑4	73
38	Lawrence	21	↑7	35
39	Russell	21	new	63
40	Armand	20	↑4	>100
41	Howard	19	new	36
42	Fred	18	↓3	33
43	Walter	18	↓20	21
44	Wilfred	18	new	>100
45	Leonard	17	↑2	48
46	Philip	17	↓10	70
47	Earl	16	new	41
48	Leon	15	↓16	83
49	Louis	15	new	39
50	Peter	15	new	62

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