Popular baby names in Vermont, 1924

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1924 were Mary for girls (124 babies) and Robert for boys (151). Social Security records list 5,139 babies born in Vermont in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1924

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

Girls

Madeline: 25 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Beverly: 23 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Barbara: 80 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Joyce: 32 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Marguerite: 20 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Marion: 51 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Anita: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Pauline: 54 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Arlene: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Blanche: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Winston: 15 babies, 26.3× the national rate
Reginald: 17 babies, 22.5× the national rate
Clayton: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Ronald: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Roger: 23 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Gordon: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Bernard: 44 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Francis: 56 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Frederick: 24 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Lawrence: 38 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	124	–	1
2	Dorothy	92	↑1	2
3	Barbara	80	↓1	28
4	Ruth	78	–	6
5	Helen	67	↑1	3
6	Margaret	64	↑1	5
7	Shirley	64	↑1	19
8	Elizabeth	55	↑1	11
9	Pauline	54	↑9	38
10	Marjorie	52	↑4	17
11	Marion	51	↓6	46
12	Doris	46	–	9
13	Evelyn	44	↑8	12
14	Phyllis	44	↑8	44
15	Rita	38	↑2	49
16	Virginia	38	↓1	7
17	Beatrice	37	new	50
18	Betty	37	↑9	4
19	Mildred	37	↓8	8
20	Alice	36	↓10	15
21	Florence	36	↑4	20
22	Eleanor	34	↓2	29
23	Norma	34	↑5	40
24	Joyce	32	↑14	83
25	Irene	29	↓12	18
26	Marie	28	↑3	14
27	Catherine	27	↓3	27
28	Patricia	27	new	35
29	Gladys	26	↑4	30
30	Katherine	26	↑4	59
31	Thelma	26	new	33
32	Madeline	25	↑8	>100
33	Jean	24	↓10	16
34	Lorraine	24	↓15	52
35	Anna	23	↓4	13
36	Beverly	23	↑9	>100
37	Hazel	23	new	42
38	Lucille	23	↓3	37
39	Edith	22	↑4	36
40	Frances	22	↓14	10
41	Bernice	21	↓4	47
42	Charlotte	21	↓1	80
43	Marguerite	20	↑6	>100
44	Gertrude	19	↓2	60
45	Grace	19	↓15	43
46	June	19	↓7	45
47	Arlene	18	↓11	>100
48	Esther	18	new	51
49	Lois	18	new	22
50	Lillian	17	↓34	23

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	151	–	1
2	John	125	–	2
3	William	99	–	3
4	Richard	80	↑1	8
5	George	76	↑1	6
6	Charles	74	↓2	5
7	Raymond	68	↑3	15
8	Edward	67	↑3	9
9	Donald	63	↓2	10
10	James	62	↓2	4
11	Paul	57	↑3	14
12	Francis	56	↑1	34
13	Joseph	51	↓4	7
14	Harold	48	↑4	13
15	Kenneth	48	↓3	19
16	Bernard	44	↑5	46
17	Arthur	38	–	20
18	Lawrence	38	↑6	36
19	Walter	37	↑4	16
20	Howard	33	↓5	26
21	Ralph	32	↓1	23
22	Albert	31	–	21
23	Stanley	30	↑22	40
24	Gordon	29	↑13	75
25	Frank	28	↓9	12
26	Henry	28	↓7	18
27	Norman	26	↑4	42
28	Eugene	25	new	25
29	Earl	24	↓2	33
30	Frederick	24	↓2	62
31	Herbert	24	new	41
32	Roger	23	↓7	93
33	Gerald	20	↑15	49
34	Thomas	20	↑9	11
35	Leonard	19	–	38
36	Louis	19	–	28
37	Philip	19	↑1	71
38	Ernest	18	↑3	37
39	Harry	17	↓5	22
40	Reginald	17	↑2	>100
41	Theodore	17	new	65
42	Wayne	17	new	74
43	Alfred	16	↓4	43
44	Ronald	16	new	>100
45	Warren	16	↓13	58
46	Calvin	15	new	44
47	Carl	15	↓21	27
48	Clayton	15	new	>100
49	Winston	15	new	>100
50	Arnold	14	↓4	95

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