Popular baby names in Vermont, 1923

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1923 were Mary for girls (119 babies) and Robert for boys (170). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 4,964 babies born in Vermont in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1923

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

Girls

Priscilla: 15 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Marion: 70 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Madeline: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Barbara: 81 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Beverly: 17 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Arlene: 20 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Rita: 38 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Lorraine: 35 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Joyce: 20 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Shirley: 57 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 17 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Wendell: 21 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Roger: 27 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Maurice: 22 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Gordon: 19 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Francis: 44 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bernard: 31 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Frederick: 22 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Philip: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Howard: 42 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	119	–	1
2	Barbara	81	↑3	33
3	Dorothy	78	↓1	2
4	Ruth	78	↑2	6
5	Marion	70	↑3	44
6	Helen	69	↓3	3
7	Margaret	63	↓3	4
8	Shirley	57	↑1	26
9	Elizabeth	56	↓2	9
10	Alice	43	↑8	15
11	Mildred	42	↑13	8
12	Doris	41	↓2	11
13	Irene	40	↑6	17
14	Marjorie	40	↓3	16
15	Virginia	40	–	7
16	Lillian	38	↑1	20
17	Rita	38	↑3	50
18	Pauline	37	↓4	37
19	Lorraine	35	↑10	57
20	Eleanor	34	↓7	28
21	Evelyn	34	–	12
22	Phyllis	33	↑5	45
23	Jean	32	↑9	19
24	Catherine	31	↑19	24
25	Florence	30	↓9	18
26	Frances	30	↓14	10
27	Betty	29	↑4	5
28	Norma	27	↓2	41
29	Marie	24	↑1	14
30	Grace	23	new	39
31	Anna	22	↓6	13
32	Geraldine	22	↑17	58
33	Gladys	21	↑9	29
34	Katherine	21	new	60
35	Lucille	21	↓2	35
36	Arlene	20	↓8	>100
37	Bernice	20	↓1	43
38	Joyce	20	new	>100
39	June	20	new	42
40	Madeline	20	↑5	>100
41	Charlotte	19	↓18	77
42	Gertrude	19	↓4	59
43	Edith	18	↑1	36
44	Jane	18	new	55
45	Beverly	17	↑2	>100
46	Elaine	17	new	87
47	Elsie	17	new	61
48	Kathleen	16	↓11	70
49	Marguerite	16	new	>100
50	Theresa	16	↓10	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Robert	170	–	2
2	John	124	–	1
3	William	92	–	3
4	Charles	89	↑2	5
5	Richard	80	↓1	9
6	George	76	↓1	6
7	Donald	68	–	10
8	James	63	↑1	4
9	Joseph	56	↑1	7
10	Raymond	55	↑2	15
11	Edward	53	↓3	8
12	Kenneth	45	↑2	21
13	Francis	44	↓2	34
14	Paul	43	↑2	14
15	Howard	42	↑9	26
16	Frank	39	↑6	11
17	Arthur	38	–	19
18	Harold	38	↓5	13
19	Henry	38	↑9	18
20	Ralph	32	↓1	23
21	Bernard	31	↓3	46
22	Albert	30	↓2	20
23	Walter	29	↓8	16
24	Lawrence	27	↓3	36
25	Roger	27	↑4	95
26	Carl	24	↑17	28
27	Earl	23	↑4	31
28	Frederick	22	↓5	60
29	Leo	22	↑3	49
30	Maurice	22	↓5	>100
31	Norman	22	↑6	44
32	Warren	21	new	43
33	Wendell	21	new	>100
34	Harry	20	new	22
35	Leonard	20	↓2	37
36	Louis	20	↑9	27
37	Gordon	19	↓1	76
38	Philip	19	new	70
39	Alfred	17	↑3	42
40	David	17	new	24
41	Ernest	17	↓1	38
42	Reginald	17	↑4	>100
43	Thomas	17	↓16	12
44	Clarence	16	new	29
45	Stanley	16	↓11	41
46	Arnold	14	↓11	93
47	Everett	14	new	99
48	Gerald	14	↓22	54
49	Lloyd	14	new	59
50	Roland	14	↓11	>100

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