Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1934

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1934 were Barbara for girls (126 babies) and Robert for boys (336). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,022 babies born in New Hampshire in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1934

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: 15 babies, 25.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 32 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 33 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Claire: 37 babies, 10× the national rate
Lorraine: 84 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Pauline: 72 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Cynthia: 19 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Constance: 36 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Muriel: 15 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Jeanne: 27 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 22 babies, 52.4× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 27× the national rate
Gerard: 21 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Maurice: 36 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Roland: 30 babies, 7× the national rate
Roger: 67 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Leo: 28 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Frederick: 26 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Arthur: 56 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Norman: 42 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Barbara	126	–	3
2	Mary	100	–	1
3	Joan	92	–	7
4	Lorraine	84	↑1	56
5	Patricia	80	↓1	6
6	Shirley	79	↑3	4
7	Pauline	72	↓1	71
8	Dorothy	69	–	5
9	Nancy	62	↓2	10
10	Doris	55	–	11
11	Janet	53	↑12	21
12	Jean	53	↑13	16
13	Margaret	53	↑13	8
14	Betty	52	↓3	2
15	Beverly	51	↓3	22
16	Ruth	50	↑6	13
17	Helen	45	↓4	9
18	Joyce	42	↓2	12
19	Ann	40	↑13	32
20	Irene	40	–	49
21	Jane	39	↑14	48
22	Theresa	38	↓5	77
23	Claire	37	↓9	>100
24	Alice	36	↑14	25
25	Constance	36	↓7	>100
26	Eleanor	36	↑1	44
27	Rita	35	↓6	63
28	Virginia	35	↑3	15
29	Norma	34	new	24
30	Jeannette	33	↑7	>100
31	Marilyn	33	↓16	17
32	Phyllis	32	↓4	28
33	Priscilla	32	–	>100
34	Gloria	31	–	30
35	Elizabeth	30	↓16	18
36	Jacqueline	29	↓6	80
37	Marjorie	28	↓13	41
38	Jeanne	27	new	>100
39	Elaine	26	↑1	54
40	Lucille	26	↑10	84
41	Janice	25	new	68
42	Louise	25	↑5	40
43	June	24	↓14	46
44	Sally	24	new	62
45	Sylvia	24	new	70
46	Marie	23	↓4	34
47	Frances	22	↓6	19
48	Marion	21	↓3	86
49	Anne	20	new	88
50	Carolyn	20	↓11	33

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	336	–	1
2	Richard	243	–	5
3	Donald	171	↑1	6
4	John	156	↓1	3
5	William	107	–	4
6	George	94	↑4	8
7	Paul	88	↓1	14
8	James	87	↓1	2
9	Charles	75	↑2	7
10	Roger	67	↑3	39
11	Raymond	66	↓3	19
12	David	64	↑2	12
13	Ronald	63	↑3	11
14	Edward	57	↓5	13
15	Arthur	56	↓3	29
16	Joseph	55	↑1	10
17	Kenneth	44	↓2	15
18	Albert	42	–	32
19	Norman	42	↑2	38
20	Maurice	36	↑4	>100
21	Thomas	35	↑2	9
22	Roland	30	↓2	>100
23	Frank	29	↓4	16
24	Leo	28	↑3	86
25	Walter	28	↑6	21
26	Frederick	26	↑4	77
27	Ernest	25	↑8	51
28	Francis	25	–	49
29	Gerald	24	↓3	22
30	Henry	24	↑3	27
31	Normand	22	↑3	>100
32	Gerard	21	↑7	>100
33	Lawrence	21	↑11	34
34	Carl	20	↑3	28
35	Philip	20	new	69
36	Ralph	19	–	31
37	Howard	18	↑13	37
38	Alfred	17	↓16	64
39	Bruce	17	↑10	78
40	Louis	17	↑6	40
41	Armand	16	↑2	>100
42	Harold	16	↓17	18
43	Leon	16	new	87
44	Stanley	16	↓3	58
45	Russell	15	new	70
46	Clarence	14	new	45
47	Leonard	14	new	53
48	Bernard	13	↓1	65
49	Wayne	13	new	48
50	Peter	12	↓2	61

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