Popular baby names in Vermont, 1913

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1913 were Mary for girls (80 babies) and John for boys (95). Social Security records list 2,469 babies born in Vermont in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1913

Names given at least 15 times in Vermont that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Marion: 39 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Doris: 38 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Barbara: 17 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Beatrice: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Marjorie: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernice: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Katherine: 16 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Florence: 33 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Hazel: 24 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Alice: 35 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 15 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Francis: 37 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Kenneth: 30 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Ralph: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Richard: 28 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Arthur: 26 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Raymond: 26 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Howard: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Clarence: 18 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	80	–	1
2	Dorothy	66	–	3
3	Helen	66	–	2
4	Ruth	47	–	5
5	Elizabeth	40	–	8
6	Margaret	39	↑1	4
7	Marion	39	↓1	51
8	Doris	38	↑1	44
9	Alice	35	↑1	11
10	Florence	33	↑3	13
11	Evelyn	32	↓3	12
12	Mildred	32	↑2	6
13	Beatrice	24	↑13	37
14	Frances	24	↓3	9
15	Hazel	24	↑5	27
16	Gladys	22	↓4	19
17	Lillian	22	↑2	16
18	Eleanor	19	↑5	34
19	Bernice	18	↑14	45
20	Catherine	18	↑14	22
21	Marie	18	↑29	10
22	Marjorie	18	↓6	48
23	Barbara	17	↑2	94
24	Irene	17	↓9	21
25	Katherine	16	↓1	54
26	Ethel	15	↑9	20
27	Josephine	15	new	24
28	Blanche	14	↓10	76
29	Esther	14	new	32
30	Gertrude	14	↑6	33
31	Pauline	14	↑6	35
32	Charlotte	12	↑6	87
33	Edith	12	↓6	29
34	Madeline	12	↑9	>100
35	Marguerite	12	new	78
36	Virginia	12	new	15
37	Anna	11	↓20	7
38	Eva	11	↓8	50
39	Grace	11	↑2	25
40	Julia	11	new	42
41	Laura	11	↓10	62
42	Louise	11	–	17
43	Clara	10	↓14	36
44	Thelma	10	↓23	26
45	Bessie	9	new	47
46	Ellen	9	↓7	88
47	Harriet	9	new	>100
48	Lena	9	new	73
49	Mabel	9	↓21	56
50	Marian	9	new	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	95	↑2	1
2	Robert	61	↑2	4
3	George	47	↓1	6
4	William	46	↓3	2
5	Charles	39	↑1	7
6	Francis	37	↑11	30
7	Edward	34	↓2	8
8	Joseph	33	↑2	5
9	Kenneth	30	↑3	33
10	Richard	28	↓2	19
11	Arthur	26	↑4	17
12	James	26	↑9	3
13	Raymond	26	↓6	18
14	Harold	25	↓3	13
15	Paul	25	↑1	14
16	Ralph	24	↑4	22
17	Thomas	22	↑15	10
18	Harry	19	↑4	15
19	Henry	19	↑7	12
20	Clarence	18	↑15	21
21	Howard	18	↓12	26
22	Albert	16	↑1	16
23	Walter	16	↓5	11
24	Donald	15	↓11	25
25	Maurice	15	new	95
26	Gordon	14	↓1	94
27	Lawrence	13	↑4	35
28	Alfred	12	↑5	42
29	Bernard	12	↓5	52
30	Earl	12	↓2	31
31	Ernest	12	↓12	34
32	Frank	12	↓18	9
33	Philip	12	new	69
34	Leo	11	↓7	48
35	Fred	10	↓6	27
36	Frederick	10	↓6	49
37	Leonard	10	new	46
38	David	9	↑10	29
39	Gerald	9	new	84
40	Andrew	8	new	47
41	Daniel	8	new	54
42	Floyd	8	new	58
43	Lloyd	8	new	67
44	Louis	8	↑1	20
45	Burton	7	new	>100
46	Clifford	7	↓7	68
47	Edwin	7	new	55
48	Leon	7	new	81
49	Russell	7	new	50
50	Stanley	7	↓13	41

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