Popular baby names in Vermont, 1917

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1917 were Mary for girls (126 babies) and John for boys (94). Social Security records list 4,533 babies born in Vermont in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1917

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

Girls

Arlene: 19 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Marion: 69 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Shirley: 23 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Madeline: 19 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Barbara: 32 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rita: 32 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Hilda: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Charlotte: 25 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Doris: 59 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Marguerite: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 18 babies, 31.9× the national rate
Roland: 16 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Maurice: 18 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Gordon: 22 babies, 5× the national rate
Bernard: 31 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Francis: 47 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Leon: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Frederick: 25 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Gerald: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Kenneth: 39 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	126	–	1
2	Dorothy	98	↑2	3
3	Ruth	86	↓1	5
4	Helen	84	↓1	2
5	Margaret	80	↑2	4
6	Marion	69	–	45
7	Doris	59	↑1	25
8	Alice	54	↑2	13
9	Evelyn	47	–	11
10	Florence	45	↑1	14
11	Elizabeth	44	↓6	8
12	Marjorie	43	↑4	36
13	Mildred	43	↑4	6
14	Frances	42	↑1	9
15	Irene	38	↓2	17
16	Eleanor	34	↑4	26
17	Louise	33	↑14	19
18	Barbara	32	↑14	67
19	Gladys	32	↑2	23
20	Rita	32	↓2	63
21	Catherine	31	↓2	18
22	Lillian	31	↑8	15
23	Hazel	29	↓1	31
24	Thelma	29	↑3	32
25	Anna	28	↑3	7
26	Pauline	26	–	33
27	Bertha	25	↑19	51
28	Charlotte	25	↑9	76
29	Edith	24	↑5	28
30	Marie	24	↑5	12
31	Beatrice	23	↓19	39
32	Bernice	23	new	42
33	Grace	23	↓8	30
34	Lucille	23	new	29
35	Marguerite	23	↓11	78
36	Shirley	23	↑8	>100
37	Agnes	22	new	48
38	Ethel	22	↓9	24
39	Virginia	22	new	10
40	Rose	20	new	16
41	Arlene	19	↑4	>100
42	Elsie	19	↓3	50
43	Katherine	19	new	49
44	Madeline	19	↓8	>100
45	Esther	17	↑2	38
46	Gertrude	17	↓32	37
47	Hilda	16	↑1	>100
48	Laura	16	new	65
49	Leona	16	↑1	80
50	Blanche	15	new	91

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	94	↑1	1
2	Robert	94	↓1	4
3	William	72	↑2	2
4	George	61	–	6
5	Charles	60	↓2	7
6	James	59	↑2	3
7	Harold	57	↑5	12
8	Richard	55	↓1	14
9	Raymond	51	↑4	16
10	Donald	50	↑9	20
11	Francis	47	↓2	30
12	Edward	46	↓6	8
13	Joseph	44	↓3	5
14	Arthur	41	↑1	17
15	Paul	41	↑6	13
16	Kenneth	39	↓5	27
17	Frank	36	↓3	9
18	Walter	32	↑10	11
19	Bernard	31	↑3	49
20	Howard	31	↓3	26
21	Henry	30	↓1	15
22	Albert	28	↓6	18
23	Ralph	26	↓5	21
24	Frederick	25	↑8	51
25	Clarence	24	↑23	25
26	Harry	23	↑4	19
27	Stanley	23	↑4	34
28	Gordon	22	↑5	84
29	Lawrence	22	↓6	36
30	Roy	22	↑20	33
31	Earl	21	↓2	32
32	Thomas	20	↓7	10
33	Leo	19	↑3	47
34	Leonard	19	↑3	41
35	Gerald	18	↑7	69
36	Maurice	18	↓9	>100
37	Reginald	18	new	>100
38	Alfred	17	↑3	43
39	Eugene	16	new	39
40	Fred	16	↑4	29
41	Leon	16	↑4	82
42	Norman	16	↑4	46
43	Philip	16	new	66
44	Roland	16	new	>100
45	Ernest	15	↓21	37
46	Everett	13	new	94
47	Louis	13	↓21	23
48	Russell	13	↓1	52
49	Floyd	12	↓10	62
50	Milton	12	new	75

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