Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1935

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1935 were Shirley for girls (150 babies) and Robert for boys (285). Shirley ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,151 babies born in New Hampshire in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1935

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, 18.7× the national rate
Priscilla: 33 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 29 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Claire: 30 babies, 9× the national rate
Lorraine: 79 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Constance: 40 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Cynthia: 21 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Pauline: 63 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lucille: 46 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Jeanne: 19 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 19 babies, 41.6× the national rate
Gerard: 23 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Maurice: 37 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roland: 37 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Leo: 28 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Norman: 51 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Roger: 50 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Francis: 37 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Arthur: 58 babies, 3× the national rate
Philip: 27 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Shirley	150	↑5	2
2	Patricia	122	↑3	5
3	Barbara	108	↓2	3
4	Mary	96	↓2	1
5	Joan	95	↓2	7
6	Nancy	85	↑3	9
7	Lorraine	79	↓3	68
8	Beverly	63	↑7	20
9	Dorothy	63	↓1	6
10	Pauline	63	↓3	80
11	Doris	52	↓1	13
12	Ruth	51	↑4	15
13	Janet	48	↓2	22
14	Elizabeth	47	↑21	17
15	Joyce	46	↑3	12
16	Lucille	46	↑24	85
17	Betty	44	↓3	4
18	Marilyn	41	↑13	14
19	Constance	40	↑6	>100
20	Jean	40	↓8	18
21	Helen	39	↓4	10
22	Rita	37	↑5	63
23	Ann	36	↓4	30
24	Jane	35	↓3	43
25	Elaine	34	↑14	51
26	Gloria	34	↑8	32
27	Margaret	34	↓14	8
28	Janice	33	↑13	47
29	Marjorie	33	↑8	46
30	Priscilla	33	↑3	>100
31	Irene	32	↓11	52
32	June	32	↑11	55
33	Claire	30	↓10	>100
34	Eleanor	30	↓8	48
35	Alice	29	↓11	25
36	Carolyn	29	↑14	28
37	Jeannette	29	↓7	>100
38	Phyllis	29	↓6	27
39	Jacqueline	27	↓3	79
40	Joanne	27	new	44
41	Theresa	25	↓19	86
42	Lois	24	new	21
43	Marlene	24	new	39
44	Carol	23	new	11
45	Judith	23	new	54
46	Marion	23	↑2	88
47	Sally	23	↓3	58
48	Sandra	23	new	50
49	Arlene	22	new	59
50	Louise	22	↓8	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	285	–	1
2	Richard	253	–	5
3	John	163	↑1	3
4	Donald	136	↓1	7
5	William	111	–	4
6	James	99	↑2	2
7	Paul	96	–	14
8	George	88	↓2	8
9	Raymond	80	↑2	17
10	Ronald	79	↑3	12
11	David	78	↑1	11
12	Charles	62	↓3	6
13	Edward	60	↑1	13
14	Joseph	60	↑2	10
15	Arthur	58	–	29
16	Norman	51	↑3	38
17	Roger	50	↓7	36
18	Thomas	43	↑3	9
19	Albert	40	↓1	31
20	Kenneth	38	↓3	15
21	Francis	37	↑7	53
22	Maurice	37	↓2	>100
23	Roland	37	↓1	>100
24	Frank	36	↓1	16
25	Walter	34	–	23
26	Harold	31	↑16	20
27	Leo	28	↓3	92
28	Philip	27	↑7	65
29	Ralph	25	↑7	32
30	Gerald	24	↓1	21
31	Lawrence	24	↑2	35
32	Gerard	23	–	>100
33	Ernest	22	↓6	55
34	Eugene	22	new	26
35	Henry	22	↓5	27
36	Wayne	22	↑13	49
37	Bernard	21	↑11	67
38	Theodore	21	new	79
39	Alfred	20	↓1	63
40	Frederick	19	↓14	73
41	Leonard	19	↑6	54
42	Normand	19	↓11	>100
43	Bruce	17	↓4	77
44	Peter	17	↑6	59
45	Daniel	16	new	43
46	Earl	16	new	46
47	Louis	16	↓7	42
48	Fred	15	new	34
49	Gordon	15	new	70
50	Herbert	15	new	58

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