Popular baby names in Vermont, 1914

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1914 were Mary for girls (106 babies) and John for boys (96). Social Security records list 3,451 babies born in Vermont in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1914

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: 48 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Madeline: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Barbara: 23 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Doris: 47 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Marguerite: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Marjorie: 32 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Rita: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Eva: 26 babies, 3× the national rate
Beatrice: 24 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Ruth: 82 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Wendell: 20 babies, 24.6× the national rate
Maurice: 19 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Gordon: 18 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Gerald: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Kenneth: 44 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Bernard: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Ernest: 27 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Donald: 34 babies, 3× the national rate
Francis: 26 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Leo: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	106	–	1
2	Ruth	82	↑2	5
3	Dorothy	74	↓1	3
4	Helen	72	↓1	2
5	Margaret	62	↑1	4
6	Elizabeth	52	↓1	8
7	Marion	48	–	50
8	Doris	47	–	36
9	Mildred	39	↑3	7
10	Alice	37	↓1	12
11	Evelyn	36	–	11
12	Irene	32	↑12	22
13	Marjorie	32	↑9	45
14	Florence	29	↓4	13
15	Lillian	27	↑2	16
16	Eva	26	↑22	52
17	Eleanor	25	↑1	28
18	Anna	24	↑19	6
19	Beatrice	24	↓6	38
20	Barbara	23	↑3	82
21	Frances	23	↓7	9
22	Hazel	20	↓7	29
23	Thelma	19	↑21	26
24	Catherine	18	↓4	18
25	Edith	18	↑8	31
26	Gertrude	18	↑4	32
27	Madeline	18	↑7	>100
28	Marguerite	18	↑7	84
29	Pauline	18	↑2	34
30	Esther	17	↓1	35
31	Gladys	17	↓15	20
32	Louise	17	↑10	17
33	Bernice	16	↓14	43
34	Grace	16	↑5	25
35	Rita	16	new	87
36	Josephine	15	↓9	23
37	Katherine	15	↓12	48
38	Pearl	15	new	56
39	Arlene	14	new	>100
40	Bertha	14	new	41
41	Hilda	14	new	>100
42	Laura	14	↓1	59
43	Marie	14	↓22	10
44	Sylvia	14	new	70
45	Virginia	14	↓9	14
46	Edna	13	new	19
47	Ethel	13	↓21	21
48	Ida	13	new	49
49	Nellie	13	new	61
50	Agnes	12	new	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	96	–	1
2	George	74	↑1	6
3	Robert	60	↓1	4
4	William	57	–	2
5	Edward	47	↑2	8
6	Harold	47	↑8	14
7	Joseph	47	↑1	5
8	Kenneth	44	↑1	30
9	Raymond	44	↑4	16
10	Charles	43	↓5	7
11	Donald	34	↑13	23
12	Richard	34	↓2	17
13	Paul	32	↑2	13
14	Harry	31	↑4	19
15	James	30	↓3	3
16	Howard	29	↑5	26
17	Albert	27	↑5	15
18	Ernest	27	↑13	38
19	Francis	26	↓13	31
20	Frank	26	↑12	9
21	Arthur	25	↓10	18
22	Earl	24	↑8	33
23	Bernard	23	↑6	50
24	Henry	23	↓5	12
25	Walter	23	↓2	10
26	Lawrence	21	↑1	35
27	Wendell	20	new	>100
28	Maurice	19	↓3	94
29	Ralph	19	↓13	21
30	Clarence	18	↓10	22
31	Gordon	18	↓5	88
32	Leo	18	↑2	47
33	Leonard	17	↑4	45
34	Frederick	16	↑2	52
35	Gerald	16	↑4	81
36	Thomas	16	↓19	11
37	Fred	15	↓2	28
38	Philip	14	↓5	68
39	Stanley	13	↑11	39
40	Clifford	12	↑6	62
41	Russell	12	↑8	49
42	Carl	11	new	24
43	Daniel	11	↓2	55
44	Louis	11	–	20
45	Carroll	10	new	>100
46	Floyd	10	↓4	58
47	Roger	10	new	>100
48	Andrew	9	↓8	44
49	Archie	9	new	>100
50	Edwin	9	↓3	53

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