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Baby names in New Hampshire, 1920s

1920–1929 · 66,617 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in New Hampshire across the 1920s, with 2,713 births in the decade. The state recorded 66,617 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to New Hampshire in the 1920s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Laurette8340×
Adrien4737×
Normand16832×
Yvette15632×
Fernand6631×
Simonne2328×
Marcel12626×
Simone4425×

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert2,713
#2John1,618
#3Mary1,509
#4Richard1,329
#5William1,174
#6Dorothy1,170
#7George1,168
#8Rita985
#9Barbara972
#10Doris858
#11Helen848
#12Ruth845
#13Donald842
#14Raymond826
#15Paul808
#16Charles803
#17Joseph789
#18James759
#19Irene754
#20Pauline746
#21Edward715
#22Arthur692
#23Roger655
#24Virginia649
#25Margaret640

Other decades in New Hampshire

All New Hampshire names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org