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Baby names in New Hampshire in the 1930s

In New Hampshire in the 1930s the most given names were Robert (3,060 boys) and Barbara (1,179 girls), of 60,821 births recorded.

Babies SSA recorded in New Hampshire each year, the 1930s shaded
New Hampshire births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101930195019701990201020251930-1939BoysGirls
New Hampshire births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101930195019701990201020251930-1939BoysGirls
New Hampshire births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101930195019701990201020251930-1939BoysGirls
New Hampshire births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101950199020251930-1939BoysGirls

Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.

New Hampshire, 1930-1939: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in New Hampshire, 1930s

Girls, 1930-1939
#NameBirths
1Barbara1,179
2Mary1,069
3Patricia934
4Shirley860
5Joan782
6Nancy764
7Lorraine671
8Pauline658
9Dorothy610
10Beverly589
11Doris557
12Betty460
13Helen443
14Jean439
15Elizabeth426
16Rita423
17Irene404
18Ruth402
19Margaret402
20Janet399
Boys, 1930-1939
#NameBirths
1Robert3,060
2Richard2,316
3John1,521
4Donald1,330
5William1,165
6Paul930
7James924
8George860
9David849
10Raymond788
11Charles681
12Roger664
13Ronald654
14Edward610
15Joseph528
16Arthur512
17Kenneth444
18Norman421
19Maurice395
20Albert392

Births summed over 1930-1939, per sex.

The names most over-represented in New Hampshire in the 1930s

Each figure is the name’s births in the state in the decade against the births its national share, year by year, would predict (names with at least 100 births in the state).

Girls

Boys

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 1930-1939.

More about names in New Hampshire

  1. The 1930s across the U.S.The most given names of the decade nationally.
  2. New Hampshire: 2025 and every year since 1910The state’s top names now and its number ones by year.
  3. New Hampshire in the 1940sThe next decade in the state.
  4. The top names of 1930The first year of the decade, nationally.
  5. Every state’s most given namesEach state since 1910.
  6. Look up any nameIts rank, births since 1880 and the people alive with it.

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