Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1936

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1936 were Shirley for girls (127 babies) and Robert for boys (275). Shirley ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 5,988 babies born in New Hampshire in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1936

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

Jeannine: 15 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Claire: 34 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Priscilla: 19 babies, 9× the national rate
Pauline: 66 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 21 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Lorraine: 59 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Constance: 31 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Cynthia: 16 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rachel: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Jacqueline: 40 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 18 babies, 53.2× the national rate
Armand: 19 babies, 30.5× the national rate
Gerard: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Roland: 41 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Maurice: 28 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Roger: 70 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Leo: 24 babies, 4× the national rate
Philip: 31 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Arthur: 57 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bruce: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Shirley	127	–	2
2	Nancy	109	↑4	8
3	Patricia	98	↓1	5
4	Mary	90	–	1
5	Barbara	87	↓2	3
6	Joan	86	↓1	7
7	Beverly	74	↑1	17
8	Pauline	66	↑2	82
9	Dorothy	61	–	6
10	Doris	59	↑1	15
11	Lorraine	59	↓4	76
12	Carol	52	↑32	10
13	Janet	45	–	21
14	Marilyn	45	↑4	13
15	Jean	43	↑5	20
16	Ann	40	↑7	28
17	Betty	40	–	4
18	Jacqueline	40	↑21	66
19	Irene	39	↑12	57
20	Helen	38	↑1	11
21	Joanne	36	↑19	48
22	Margaret	35	↑5	9
23	Virginia	35	new	14
24	Claire	34	↑9	>100
25	Carolyn	33	↑11	23
26	Janice	32	↑2	31
27	Constance	31	↓8	>100
28	Elizabeth	30	↓14	18
29	Sylvia	30	new	53
30	Jane	29	↓6	42
31	Joyce	29	↓16	12
32	Ruth	29	↓20	16
33	Marjorie	28	↓4	49
34	Theresa	28	↑7	88
35	Rita	27	↓13	69
36	Judith	26	↑9	43
37	Alice	25	↓2	27
38	Gloria	25	↓12	32
39	Elaine	24	↓14	50
40	Marie	24	new	33
41	Sandra	24	↑7	38
42	June	23	↓10	62
43	Lucille	23	↓27	92
44	Frances	22	new	19
45	Jeannette	21	↓8	>100
46	Roberta	21	new	64
47	Geraldine	20	new	41
48	Charlotte	19	new	61
49	Eleanor	19	↓15	47
50	Louise	19	–	46

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	275	–	1
2	Richard	213	–	5
3	Donald	138	↑1	7
4	John	138	↓1	3
5	William	132	–	4
6	David	119	↑5	10
7	Paul	104	–	15
8	James	99	↓2	2
9	Ronald	91	↑1	12
10	George	86	↓2	9
11	Raymond	73	↓2	17
12	Roger	70	↑5	35
13	Edward	61	–	13
14	Arthur	57	↑1	30
15	Charles	50	↓3	6
16	Kenneth	47	↑4	14
17	Joseph	42	↓3	11
18	Roland	41	↑5	>100
19	Norman	37	↓3	43
20	Harold	34	↑6	21
21	Henry	34	↑14	28
22	Thomas	33	↓4	8
23	Albert	31	↓4	34
24	Philip	31	↑4	63
25	Ernest	30	↑8	55
26	Gerald	30	↑4	19
27	Lawrence	30	↑4	37
28	Walter	30	↓3	26
29	Peter	29	↑15	56
30	Maurice	28	↓8	>100
31	Alfred	25	↑8	60
32	Frederick	25	↑8	70
33	Bruce	24	↑10	73
34	Francis	24	↓13	50
35	Leo	24	↓8	94
36	Eugene	23	↓2	29
37	Stanley	22	new	58
38	Howard	21	new	40
39	Ralph	21	↓10	31
40	Armand	19	new	>100
41	Harry	19	new	39
42	Louis	18	↑5	44
43	Normand	18	↓1	>100
44	Russell	18	new	69
45	Frank	17	↓21	16
46	Michael	17	new	33
47	Wayne	17	↓11	45
48	Andrew	15	new	83
49	Bernard	15	↓12	68
50	Gerard	15	↓18	>100

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