Popular baby names in Vermont, 1918

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1918 were Mary for girls (139 babies) and Robert for boys (143). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 4,969 babies born in Vermont in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1918

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: 26 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Marion: 68 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Madeline: 20 babies, 5× the national rate
Shirley: 29 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Barbara: 44 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Doris: 68 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Charlotte: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Blanche: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Marguerite: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Phyllis: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 23 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Gordon: 29 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roland: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Roger: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Wayne: 19 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Bernard: 34 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Kenneth: 47 babies, 3× the national rate
Francis: 44 babies, 3× the national rate
Philip: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Leon: 17 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	139	–	1
2	Helen	91	↑2	2
3	Dorothy	77	↓1	3
4	Ruth	76	↓1	5
5	Doris	68	↑2	19
6	Margaret	68	↓1	4
7	Marion	68	↓1	45
8	Elizabeth	65	↑3	9
9	Alice	55	↓1	13
10	Evelyn	52	↓1	11
11	Frances	46	↑3	8
12	Barbara	44	↑6	60
13	Eleanor	43	↑3	26
14	Florence	39	↓4	14
15	Marjorie	39	↓3	34
16	Irene	38	↓1	16
17	Mildred	37	↓4	6
18	Hazel	31	↑5	33
19	Lillian	31	↑3	15
20	Thelma	30	↑4	32
21	Beatrice	29	↑10	40
22	Gladys	29	↓3	22
23	Shirley	29	↑13	97
24	Josephine	28	new	24
25	Virginia	27	↑14	7
26	Arlene	26	↑15	>100
27	Katherine	26	↑16	50
28	Pauline	25	↓2	35
29	Gertrude	23	↑17	39
30	Rita	23	↓10	58
31	Anna	22	↓6	10
32	Catherine	22	↓11	20
33	Charlotte	22	↓5	78
34	Esther	22	↑11	38
35	Marie	22	↓5	12
36	Madeline	20	↑8	>100
37	Marguerite	20	↓2	86
38	Phyllis	20	new	80
39	Edith	19	↓10	30
40	Louise	19	↓23	18
41	Bernice	18	↓9	41
42	Blanche	18	↑8	96
43	Edna	18	new	23
44	Lucille	17	↓10	29
45	Eva	16	new	55
46	Grace	16	↓13	31
47	Kathleen	16	new	99
48	Mabel	16	new	74
49	Martha	16	new	25
50	Anne	15	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Robert	143	↑1	4
2	John	122	↓1	1
3	Charles	74	↑2	5
4	James	70	↑2	3
5	George	68	↓1	6
6	William	63	↓3	2
7	Edward	59	↑5	8
8	Raymond	59	↑1	15
9	Richard	57	↓1	12
10	Joseph	56	↑3	7
11	Harold	52	↓4	13
12	Paul	48	↑3	14
13	Kenneth	47	↑3	27
14	Donald	46	↓4	18
15	Francis	44	↓4	30
16	Howard	42	↑4	26
17	Arthur	39	↓3	17
18	Frank	39	↓1	9
19	Henry	36	↑2	16
20	Walter	36	↓2	11
21	Bernard	34	↓2	47
22	Lawrence	33	↑7	38
23	Albert	32	↓1	19
24	Ralph	30	↓1	22
25	Gordon	29	↑3	85
26	Earl	28	↑5	31
27	Stanley	28	–	36
28	Clarence	25	↓3	23
29	Norman	25	↑13	49
30	Alfred	24	↑8	42
31	Louis	24	↑16	24
32	Ernest	23	↑13	37
33	Maurice	23	↑3	>100
34	Frederick	22	↓10	59
35	Herbert	21	new	40
36	Leo	21	↓3	48
37	Thomas	21	↓5	10
38	Carl	20	new	25
39	Leonard	20	↓5	41
40	Harry	19	↓14	20
41	Philip	19	↑2	71
42	Wayne	19	new	91
43	Gerald	17	↓8	72
44	Leon	17	↓3	77
45	Roland	17	↓1	>100
46	Elmer	16	new	44
47	Fred	16	↓7	33
48	Roger	16	new	>100
49	Floyd	15	–	61
50	Arnold	14	new	92

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