Popular baby names in Vermont, 1925

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1925 were Mary for girls (141 babies) and Robert for boys (180). Social Security records list 5,098 babies born in Vermont in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1925

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

Girls

Anita: 22 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Beverly: 30 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Janice: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Marion: 55 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Madeline: 15 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Constance: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Barbara: 83 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Arlene: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Joyce: 36 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Charlotte: 29 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 25 babies, 26.2× the national rate
Wendell: 16 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Roland: 20 babies, 5× the national rate
Gordon: 30 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Maurice: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Roger: 19 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Bernard: 35 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Francis: 46 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Frederick: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Lawrence: 40 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	141	–	1
2	Barbara	83	↑1	22
3	Dorothy	73	↓1	2
4	Helen	71	↑1	4
5	Elizabeth	67	↑3	10
6	Ruth	59	↓2	6
7	Marion	55	↑4	47
8	Doris	53	↑4	8
9	Shirley	53	↓2	17
10	Margaret	50	↓4	5
11	Pauline	50	↓2	38
12	Alice	49	↑8	15
13	Virginia	43	↑3	7
14	Betty	41	↑4	3
15	Marjorie	41	↓5	21
16	Irene	39	↑9	19
17	Joyce	36	↑7	59
18	Lorraine	36	↑16	51
19	Evelyn	35	↓6	12
20	Patricia	35	↑8	28
21	Rita	35	↓6	48
22	Norma	33	↑1	34
23	Phyllis	32	↓9	40
24	Jean	31	↑9	14
25	Beverly	30	↑11	>100
26	Charlotte	29	↑16	77
27	Eleanor	29	↓5	31
28	Frances	29	↑12	11
29	Gloria	29	new	20
30	Lillian	28	↑20	25
31	June	25	↑15	39
32	Marie	25	↓6	16
33	Beatrice	23	↓16	50
34	Anita	22	new	>100
35	Geraldine	22	new	54
36	Katherine	22	↓6	61
37	Lucille	22	↑1	41
38	Mildred	22	↓19	9
39	Thelma	22	↓8	35
40	Theresa	22	new	80
41	Louise	21	new	27
42	Arlene	20	↑5	>100
43	Catherine	20	↓16	29
44	Edith	20	↓5	42
45	Florence	20	↓24	24
46	Elaine	19	new	73
47	Grace	19	↓2	44
48	Vivian	19	new	76
49	Anna	18	↓14	13
50	Marilyn	18	new	83

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	180	–	1
2	John	104	–	2
3	Donald	95	↑6	10
4	Richard	95	–	8
5	William	93	↓2	3
6	George	78	↓1	6
7	Edward	77	↑1	9
8	Raymond	71	↓1	15
9	James	55	↑1	4
10	Harold	53	↑4	14
11	Charles	52	↓5	5
12	Joseph	49	↑1	7
13	Paul	49	↓2	13
14	Francis	46	↓2	35
15	Kenneth	44	–	19
16	Lawrence	40	↑2	36
17	Arthur	38	–	20
18	Bernard	35	↓2	48
19	Howard	31	↑1	26
20	Gordon	30	↑4	72
21	Earl	29	↑8	31
22	Henry	29	↑4	18
23	Ralph	27	↓2	25
24	Thomas	27	↑10	11
25	Walter	26	↓6	16
26	Frank	25	↓1	12
27	Harry	25	↑12	23
28	Reginald	25	↑12	>100
29	Frederick	24	↑1	65
30	David	23	new	22
31	Louis	22	↑5	29
32	Albert	21	↓10	21
33	Gerald	21	–	45
34	Ernest	20	↑4	37
35	Norman	20	↓8	41
36	Roland	20	new	98
37	Roger	19	↓5	90
38	Alfred	18	↑5	43
39	Clarence	17	new	30
40	Leo	17	new	54
41	Wendell	16	new	>100
42	Leonard	15	↓7	38
43	Maurice	15	new	>100
44	Philip	15	↓7	75
45	Clifford	13	new	59
46	Daniel	13	new	44
47	Fred	13	new	33
48	Leon	13	new	76
49	Stanley	13	↓26	40
50	Warren	13	↓5	66

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