Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1940

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1940 were Patricia for girls (153 babies) and Robert for boys (307). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,827 babies born in New Hampshire in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1940

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: 19 babies, 21.1× the national rate
Claire: 28 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Claudette: 15 babies, 10× the national rate
Pauline: 44 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 19 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Lorraine: 40 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 30 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Lucille: 31 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Jacqueline: 40 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jeanne: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 16 babies, 56.9× the national rate
Wilfred: 15 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Gerard: 18 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Roland: 38 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Maurice: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Leo: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Peter: 55 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Bruce: 40 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Roger: 72 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Alfred: 26 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Patricia	153	↑1	3
2	Nancy	125	↓1	7
3	Mary	112	–	1
4	Judith	107	↑1	4
5	Sandra	106	↑2	10
6	Barbara	92	↓2	2
7	Carol	78	↓1	6
8	Joan	75	↑1	14
9	Linda	67	↑37	8
10	Beverly	58	–	27
11	Joyce	56	↑2	13
12	Shirley	52	↓4	9
13	Elaine	51	↑2	50
14	Janet	48	↓2	19
15	Dorothy	45	↓4	12
16	Gloria	44	↑16	30
17	Pauline	44	↑1	>100
18	Elizabeth	43	↑10	20
19	Carolyn	41	–	15
20	Ann	40	↑7	35
21	Jacqueline	40	–	76
22	Janice	40	↑13	22
23	Lorraine	40	↓3	95
24	Jean	39	↓2	29
25	Doris	38	↓2	31
26	Joanne	38	↑7	54
27	Betty	37	↓1	5
28	Marilyn	36	↓3	25
29	Gail	35	↑10	65
30	Virginia	35	↑13	21
31	Margaret	33	↓14	11
32	Donna	32	new	23
33	Martha	32	↑3	26
34	Lucille	31	↓5	>100
35	Helen	30	↑7	18
36	Jane	30	↓2	47
37	Priscilla	30	↓7	>100
38	Rita	30	↑2	70
39	Sylvia	30	↑8	62
40	Alice	29	↑8	32
41	Claire	28	↓27	>100
42	Frances	27	↑7	28
43	Sally	27	↓27	61
44	Brenda	26	new	42
45	Diane	26	new	45
46	Ruth	26	↓5	24
47	Irene	25	↓23	73
48	Phyllis	25	↓10	33
49	Constance	24	↓18	>100
50	Roberta	24	↓6	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Robert	307	–	2
2	Richard	267	–	5
3	John	174	↑1	3
4	David	159	↓1	7
5	William	137	–	4
6	Donald	119	–	9
7	James	113	–	1
8	Ronald	111	↑1	10
9	Paul	100	↓1	17
10	George	87	↑1	11
11	Raymond	76	↓1	22
12	Charles	74	–	6
13	Edward	72	↑1	16
14	Roger	72	↓1	26
15	Thomas	56	↑2	8
16	Peter	55	–	43
17	Kenneth	53	↑1	15
18	Arthur	47	↓3	33
19	Wayne	41	↑15	39
20	Albert	40	–	41
21	Bruce	40	↑1	55
22	Norman	38	↓1	48
23	Roland	38	↑15	>100
24	Walter	38	↑2	25
25	Joseph	37	↓6	12
26	Gerald	32	↓1	21
27	Michael	30	↑9	18
28	Philip	29	↑3	60
29	Henry	28	↑1	31
30	Stephen	28	new	49
31	Ernest	27	↑4	58
32	Frank	27	↑5	20
33	Alfred	26	↑13	69
34	Lawrence	26	↓5	36
35	Daniel	25	↓8	34
36	Douglas	25	new	56
37	Eugene	24	↑11	38
38	Russell	24	↑6	72
39	Stanley	23	↑6	59
40	Frederick	22	↓1	68
41	Harold	22	↓8	23
42	Harry	21	new	47
43	Leo	20	↓19	>100
44	Carl	19	↓3	32
45	Francis	19	↓17	61
46	Gary	19	↓3	19
47	Gerard	18	new	>100
48	Fred	17	new	40
49	Ralph	17	↓17	37
50	Dennis	16	↓8	24

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