Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1939

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1939 were Nancy for girls (134 babies) and Robert for boys (311). Nancy ranked #7 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,362 babies born in New Hampshire in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1939

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

Claire: 42 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Claudette: 15 babies, 10× the national rate
Priscilla: 34 babies, 8× the national rate
Pauline: 41 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Constance: 32 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 39 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Lucille: 34 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Cynthia: 22 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Jeanne: 21 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Jacqueline: 38 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 16 babies, 42× the national rate
Maurice: 37 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Leo: 34 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Roland: 20 babies, 5× the national rate
Peter: 56 babies, 4× the national rate
Bruce: 37 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Roger: 75 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Raymond: 84 babies, 3× the national rate
Arthur: 57 babies, 3× the national rate
Norman: 43 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Nancy	134	↑3	7
2	Patricia	129	↓1	3
3	Mary	104	–	1
4	Barbara	97	↓2	2
5	Judith	91	↑8	8
6	Carol	87	↑3	6
7	Sandra	86	↑1	13
8	Shirley	68	↓2	5
9	Joan	61	↓4	11
10	Beverly	52	↓3	25
11	Dorothy	51	–	9
12	Janet	47	↑5	17
13	Joyce	43	↑6	12
14	Claire	42	↑18	>100
15	Elaine	42	↑12	45
16	Sally	42	↑23	52
17	Margaret	41	↑3	10
18	Pauline	41	↓8	>100
19	Carolyn	39	↑30	14
20	Lorraine	39	↓5	95
21	Jacqueline	38	↑2	72
22	Jean	38	↓4	32
23	Doris	36	↑2	29
24	Irene	36	new	74
25	Marilyn	36	new	19
26	Betty	35	↓5	4
27	Ann	34	↓5	33
28	Elizabeth	34	↓14	18
29	Lucille	34	–	>100
30	Priscilla	34	–	>100
31	Constance	32	↓19	>100
32	Gloria	32	↑1	36
33	Joanne	29	↑5	53
34	Jane	28	↑2	46
35	Janice	27	↑2	24
36	Martha	27	new	27
37	Eleanor	26	↑5	63
38	Phyllis	26	↓4	30
39	Gail	25	↓11	73
40	Rita	25	↓5	78
41	Ruth	25	↓17	22
42	Helen	24	↓26	16
43	Virginia	24	↓12	21
44	Roberta	23	new	71
45	Cynthia	22	↓1	>100
46	Linda	22	new	15
47	Sylvia	22	↓21	62
48	Alice	21	↓1	31
49	Frances	21	new	26
50	Jeanne	21	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	311	–	1
2	Richard	261	–	5
3	David	154	↑4	7
4	John	151	↓1	3
5	William	129	↑1	4
6	Donald	115	↓1	8
7	James	105	↓3	2
8	Paul	96	–	17
9	Ronald	87	–	10
10	Raymond	84	↑2	22
11	George	82	↓1	11
12	Charles	77	↑1	6
13	Roger	75	↓2	28
14	Edward	58	–	15
15	Arthur	57	↑5	32
16	Peter	56	↑3	46
17	Thomas	55	–	9
18	Kenneth	47	↓2	13
19	Joseph	46	↓4	12
20	Albert	45	↑27	41
21	Norman	43	↑1	44
22	Bruce	37	↓1	64
23	Maurice	37	–	>100
24	Leo	34	↑6	>100
25	Gerald	33	↑13	19
26	Walter	33	↑8	25
27	Daniel	31	↑5	38
28	Francis	31	↓4	53
29	Lawrence	31	↓3	36
30	Henry	26	↓3	31
31	Philip	26	–	66
32	Ralph	26	↑7	35
33	Harold	25	↓4	23
34	Wayne	25	↓9	39
35	Ernest	22	↑1	55
36	Michael	22	↑4	18
37	Frank	20	↓9	20
38	Roland	20	↓20	>100
39	Frederick	19	new	71
40	Gordon	19	new	82
41	Carl	17	↑7	30
42	Dennis	17	new	34
43	Gary	17	new	21
44	Russell	17	new	73
45	Stanley	17	↑1	57
46	Alfred	16	↓11	70
47	Bernard	16	new	76
48	Eugene	16	↑1	37
49	Howard	16	new	47
50	Leonard	16	new	54

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