Popular baby names in New Hampshire, 1948

The most popular baby names in New Hampshire in 1948 were Linda for girls (377 babies) and Robert for boys (355). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,018 babies born in New Hampshire in 1948 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Hampshire in 1948

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: 37 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Claudette: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Pauline: 41 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 38 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Louise: 52 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Rachel: 19 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lucille: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Suzanne: 58 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Marion: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Elaine: 65 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 17 babies, 45.5× the national rate
Roland: 43 babies, 10× the national rate
Gerard: 26 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Maurice: 21 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Dana: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Brian: 48 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Jonathan: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Peter: 87 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Leo: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Norman: 35 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Hampshire, 1948

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1947	US rank
1	Linda	377	–	1
2	Susan	216	–	5
3	Mary	158	↑4	2
4	Patricia	155	↓1	4
5	Nancy	150	↓1	7
6	Diane	130	↑6	19
7	Carol	129	↓1	8
8	Sandra	128	↓3	6
9	Donna	127	↓1	11
10	Judith	118	↓1	15
11	Kathleen	111	–	10
12	Barbara	106	↓2	3
13	Sharon	90	–	9
14	Cheryl	70	↑2	25
15	Deborah	67	↑21	30
16	Pamela	66	↑6	22
17	Elaine	65	↓2	53
18	Gail	62	↑5	51
19	Karen	60	↑9	12
20	Jane	59	↓6	39
21	Cynthia	58	↓1	27
22	Margaret	58	↓5	13
23	Suzanne	58	↓4	66
24	Brenda	57	↑7	17
25	Joyce	52	↓7	21
26	Louise	52	↑4	99
27	Ann	51	↑15	44
28	Joan	51	↓4	37
29	Elizabeth	48	↓2	26
30	Bonnie	47	↑5	34
31	Shirley	45	↓6	20
32	Janice	42	↑2	23
33	Pauline	41	↑6	>100
34	Janet	39	↓13	24
35	Beverly	38	↓9	31
36	Marie	38	new	60
37	Priscilla	38	new	>100
38	Claire	37	–	>100
39	Joanne	37	↓10	65
40	Jean	36	↓8	47
41	Jeanne	36	new	95
42	Lorraine	36	↓9	96
43	Ruth	36	new	45
44	Virginia	36	↑5	36
45	Constance	35	–	93
46	Doris	35	new	64
47	Sally	35	new	72
48	Sheila	35	–	71
49	Martha	34	↑1	32
50	Gloria	33	↓10	28

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1947	US rank
1	Robert	355	–	2
2	John	322	↑1	3
3	Richard	309	↓1	7
4	David	265	↑1	5
5	James	234	↓1	1
6	Michael	206	↑2	6
7	William	192	↓1	4
8	Ronald	183	↓1	10
9	Paul	161	–	18
10	Donald	152	↑1	14
11	Thomas	145	↓1	8
12	George	111	↑7	16
13	Bruce	97	↓1	28
14	Stephen	97	↑3	20
15	Charles	96	↓2	9
16	Dennis	92	↓1	17
17	Roger	88	↓1	24
18	Peter	87	↓4	37
19	Raymond	87	↑3	27
20	Edward	78	↑4	19
21	Gary	78	↓1	12
22	Kenneth	78	↓4	15
23	Daniel	73	↓2	22
24	Joseph	53	↑2	13
25	Steven	53	↑5	23
26	Wayne	52	↓3	34
27	Alan	51	↓2	46
28	Brian	48	↑1	95
29	Douglas	47	↑2	33
30	Frank	44	↑3	25
31	Lawrence	44	↑15	31
32	Roland	43	↑2	>100
33	Larry	41	↑3	11
34	Philip	41	↑3	54
35	Walter	38	↑14	35
36	Albert	35	↓1	55
37	Mark	35	↑7	29
38	Norman	35	↓11	85
39	Arthur	34	↓11	44
40	Gerald	33	↓8	30
41	Ernest	30	–	76
42	Timothy	30	↑6	38
43	Gregory	29	new	32
44	Francis	28	new	80
45	Russell	28	↓7	67
46	Gerard	26	↓7	>100
47	Jeffrey	26	new	58
48	Carl	24	new	42
49	Eugene	23	new	61
50	Harold	23	new	36

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