Popular baby names in Vermont, 1919

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1919 were Mary for girls (121 babies) and Robert for boys (136). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 4,573 babies born in Vermont in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1919

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

Girls

Beverly: 16 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Madeline: 23 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Rachel: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Marion: 55 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Barbara: 43 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rita: 39 babies, 4× the national rate
Shirley: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marguerite: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Lorraine: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Doris: 53 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roland: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Gordon: 21 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Francis: 55 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Philip: 19 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Gerald: 20 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bernard: 28 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Howard: 46 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Kenneth: 45 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Raymond: 74 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	121	–	1
2	Ruth	89	↑2	5
3	Helen	88	↓1	2
4	Dorothy	86	↓1	3
5	Margaret	69	↑1	4
6	Elizabeth	64	↑2	8
7	Evelyn	56	↑3	11
8	Marion	55	↓1	44
9	Doris	53	↓4	18
10	Frances	44	↑1	9
11	Alice	43	↓2	13
12	Barbara	43	–	60
13	Irene	43	↑3	16
14	Marjorie	41	↑1	33
15	Rita	39	↑15	54
16	Eleanor	38	↓3	30
17	Anna	33	↑14	10
18	Florence	32	↓4	14
19	Lillian	32	–	17
20	Mildred	30	↓3	6
21	Gertrude	27	↑8	39
22	Pauline	27	↑6	36
23	Beatrice	26	↓2	41
24	Virginia	26	↑1	7
25	Hazel	25	↓7	32
26	Bertha	23	new	52
27	Catherine	23	↑5	23
28	Lorraine	23	new	62
29	Lucille	23	↑15	27
30	Madeline	23	↑6	>100
31	Grace	22	↑15	34
32	Esther	21	↑2	38
33	Marie	21	↑2	12
34	Edna	20	↑9	22
35	Ethel	20	new	28
36	Thelma	20	↓16	31
37	Edith	19	↑2	29
38	Shirley	19	↓15	89
39	Marian	18	new	82
40	Charlotte	17	↓7	79
41	Leona	17	new	90
42	Marguerite	17	↓5	96
43	Norma	17	new	83
44	Beverly	16	new	>100
45	Pearl	16	new	56
46	Rachel	16	new	>100
47	Bernice	15	↓6	42
48	Gladys	15	↓26	21
49	Josephine	15	↓25	26
50	Laura	15	new	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Robert	136	–	4
2	John	104	–	1
3	William	85	↑3	2
4	Raymond	74	↑4	14
5	George	72	–	6
6	Francis	55	↑9	34
7	James	54	↓3	3
8	Edward	53	↓1	8
9	Charles	48	↓6	5
10	Harold	47	↑1	13
11	Donald	46	↑3	17
12	Howard	46	↑4	24
13	Joseph	46	↓3	7
14	Kenneth	45	↓1	26
15	Richard	45	↓6	12
16	Paul	41	↓4	15
17	Arthur	37	–	19
18	Walter	36	↑2	11
19	Albert	32	↑4	18
20	Ralph	31	↑4	22
21	Henry	30	↓2	16
22	Bernard	28	↓1	45
23	Frank	28	↓5	9
24	Lawrence	28	↓2	38
25	Earl	24	↑1	31
26	Harry	23	↑14	20
27	Gordon	21	↓2	86
28	Gerald	20	↑15	70
29	Philip	19	↑12	71
30	Stanley	19	↓3	37
31	Alfred	18	↓1	42
32	Ernest	18	–	36
33	Maurice	18	–	>100
34	Norman	18	↓5	48
35	David	17	new	27
36	Herbert	17	↓1	40
37	Lloyd	17	new	58
38	Louis	17	↓7	28
39	Frederick	16	↓5	64
40	Theodore	16	new	54
41	Roland	15	↑4	>100
42	Thomas	15	↓5	10
43	Leo	14	↓7	49
44	Eugene	13	new	33
45	Leon	13	↓1	80
46	Leonard	13	↓7	39
47	Roy	13	new	32
48	Allen	12	new	>100
49	Glenn	12	new	84
50	Wayne	12	↓8	90

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