Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1943

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1943 were Patricia for girls (150 babies) and Robert for boys (341). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,977 babies born in New Hampshire in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1943

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, 13.1× the national rate
Pauline: 61 babies, 9× the national rate
Jeannette: 23 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Priscilla: 30 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Lorraine: 44 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Lucille: 30 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Constance: 32 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Rachel: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Cynthia: 30 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Louise: 41 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 33 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Gerard: 23 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roland: 38 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Leo: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Bruce: 48 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Norman: 40 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Peter: 59 babies, 3× the national rate
Russell: 31 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Brian: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Raymond: 80 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Patricia	150	↑1	3
2	Carol	138	↑1	5
3	Sandra	130	↓2	6
4	Barbara	117	↑3	2
5	Mary	116	–	1
6	Linda	115	↑2	4
7	Judith	112	↓1	7
8	Nancy	112	↓4	9
9	Susan	87	↑7	18
10	Donna	74	↑2	17
11	Joan	61	↓2	21
12	Pauline	61	↓2	>100
13	Joyce	59	↓2	16
14	Elizabeth	54	↑4	23
15	Sharon	54	↑20	8
16	Dorothy	52	↑1	19
17	Beverly	47	↑3	32
18	Elaine	47	↓5	46
19	Carolyn	45	–	11
20	Janet	45	↑1	20
21	Kathleen	44	↑5	22
22	Lorraine	44	↑7	94
23	Shirley	42	↓8	12
24	Louise	41	↑3	70
25	Gail	39	↑21	55
26	Doris	38	new	40
27	Ann	37	↑15	37
28	Margaret	37	↓6	14
29	Brenda	36	↓15	35
30	Claire	36	↑1	>100
31	Janice	35	↑6	26
32	Ruth	34	new	33
33	Virginia	34	↑15	25
34	Carole	33	↓6	42
35	Diane	33	↓2	24
36	Jane	33	–	44
37	Constance	32	↓13	>100
38	Rita	32	new	52
39	Betty	31	↑6	10
40	Karen	31	new	15
41	Sheila	31	↑2	92
42	Cynthia	30	↑5	>100
43	Irene	30	new	85
44	Lucille	30	↓4	>100
45	Priscilla	30	↓13	>100
46	Joanne	29	↓12	49
47	Marilyn	29	↓17	27
48	Alice	28	new	38
49	Marie	28	↓26	45
50	Pamela	28	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Robert	341	–	2
2	Richard	299	–	5
3	John	236	–	3
4	David	186	↑1	6
5	William	183	↓1	4
6	James	158	–	1
7	Ronald	119	–	9
8	Paul	117	↑1	19
9	Donald	111	↓1	11
10	Charles	86	↑5	7
11	George	82	↓1	14
12	Raymond	80	↓1	22
13	Thomas	75	↓1	8
14	Kenneth	71	↑2	15
15	Edward	65	↓2	18
16	Peter	59	↑1	39
17	Roger	58	↓3	24
18	Bruce	48	↑4	51
19	Joseph	48	↑10	13
20	Michael	47	↑3	10
21	Arthur	46	↓2	30
22	Dennis	46	↑10	20
23	Stephen	43	↓3	29
24	Albert	41	↓3	43
25	Douglas	41	↓7	28
26	Wayne	41	↑1	41
27	Norman	40	↑1	56
28	Roland	38	↓4	>100
29	Gerald	34	↑1	23
30	Gary	33	↓5	16
31	Maurice	33	↑5	>100
32	Daniel	32	↓6	25
33	Frank	32	↓2	21
34	Russell	31	new	73
35	Ralph	30	↓1	40
36	Philip	29	↑6	57
37	Walter	29	↑2	26
38	Henry	28	↓5	31
39	Alan	27	↑8	67
40	Harold	27	↑5	27
41	Carl	24	↑8	33
42	Gerard	23	↑4	>100
43	Francis	22	↓6	64
44	Frederick	22	↓6	70
45	Lawrence	22	↓5	32
46	Stanley	21	new	54
47	Harry	20	↑3	50
48	Leo	20	new	>100
49	Leonard	20	↓14	55
50	Ernest	19	↓9	61

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