Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1942

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1942 were Sandra for girls (165 babies) and Robert for boys (351). Sandra ranked #6 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,967 babies born in New Hampshire in 1942 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1942

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: 36 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Muriel: 16 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Claudette: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Pauline: 64 babies, 9× the national rate
Priscilla: 35 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Constance: 41 babies, 6× the national rate
Jeannette: 17 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Jeanne: 31 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Lucille: 31 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 40 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 15 babies, 28.4× the national rate
Roland: 43 babies, 10× the national rate
Maurice: 29 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Gerard: 22 babies, 9× the national rate
Leo: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Brian: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Peter: 57 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bruce: 44 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Norman: 39 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Rodney: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1942

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Sandra	165	↑2	6
2	Patricia	153	↓1	3
3	Carol	138	↑4	5
4	Nancy	121	↑1	8
5	Mary	119	↓3	1
6	Judith	108	↓2	7
7	Barbara	106	↓1	2
8	Linda	89	–	4
9	Joan	76	↑2	18
10	Pauline	64	↓1	>100
11	Joyce	60	↑1	13
12	Donna	56	↑29	20
13	Elaine	56	↑1	45
14	Brenda	54	↑15	40
15	Shirley	53	↑4	12
16	Susan	51	↓3	21
17	Dorothy	50	↑8	17
18	Elizabeth	50	↓3	22
19	Carolyn	45	↑3	10
20	Beverly	44	↓10	32
21	Janet	44	↑2	19
22	Margaret	43	↓6	14
23	Marie	43	new	43
24	Constance	41	↑6	>100
25	Gloria	41	↑2	31
26	Kathleen	41	new	24
27	Louise	41	↑11	61
28	Carole	40	new	35
29	Lorraine	40	↓8	91
30	Marilyn	39	↓2	27
31	Claire	36	↓7	>100
32	Priscilla	35	↓14	>100
33	Diane	34	–	28
34	Joanne	34	↓3	48
35	Sharon	33	new	11
36	Jane	32	↓10	46
37	Janice	32	↑5	25
38	Jean	32	↓18	36
39	Jeanne	31	↑9	>100
40	Lucille	31	↑9	>100
41	Sally	31	new	56
42	Ann	30	↓25	38
43	Sheila	30	↑3	94
44	Sylvia	30	new	72
45	Betty	29	↓13	9
46	Gail	29	↓11	60
47	Cynthia	28	↑3	>100
48	Virginia	28	↓9	23
49	Jacqueline	27	↓12	69
50	Helen	26	↓5	26

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Robert	351	–	2
2	Richard	273	–	5
3	John	235	–	3
4	William	180	↑1	4
5	David	165	↓1	6
6	James	157	↑2	1
7	Ronald	127	↓1	9
8	Donald	111	↑1	10
9	Paul	110	↓2	19
10	George	94	↑1	14
11	Raymond	88	↑2	24
12	Thomas	83	↑3	8
13	Edward	76	↑1	17
14	Roger	70	↓4	25
15	Charles	68	↓3	7
16	Kenneth	58	–	15
17	Peter	57	–	39
18	Douglas	54	↑15	23
19	Arthur	48	–	29
20	Stephen	47	↑8	32
21	Albert	45	↑11	40
22	Bruce	44	↑2	50
23	Michael	44	↑3	13
24	Roland	43	↓3	>100
25	Gary	41	↑13	18
26	Daniel	40	↑3	28
27	Wayne	40	↓4	41
28	Norman	39	↓8	53
29	Joseph	38	↓11	11
30	Gerald	37	↓8	22
31	Frank	36	↓6	21
32	Dennis	32	new	20
33	Henry	32	↓3	31
34	Ralph	30	↑11	38
35	Leonard	29	new	57
36	Maurice	29	↓1	>100
37	Francis	28	↑3	58
38	Frederick	28	↑3	68
39	Walter	28	↓8	26
40	Lawrence	26	↑4	30
41	Ernest	25	↓7	61
42	Philip	25	↓15	54
43	Alfred	24	↑7	76
44	Eugene	23	new	45
45	Harold	23	new	27
46	Gerard	22	–	>100
47	Alan	21	new	81
48	Howard	21	new	49
49	Carl	20	↓12	36
50	Harry	20	↓3	48

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