Popular baby names in Vermont, 1926

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1926 were Mary for girls (113 babies) and Robert for boys (150). Social Security records list 4,917 babies born in Vermont in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1926

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: 19 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Theresa: 49 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Marion: 51 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Arlene: 23 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Claire: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Pauline: 55 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 40 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Beverly: 31 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Muriel: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Barbara: 74 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 16 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Roland: 28 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Gordon: 29 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Francis: 57 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Maurice: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Frederick: 29 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Leo: 32 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Roger: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Wayne: 23 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bernard: 30 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	113	–	1
2	Dorothy	81	↑1	2
3	Barbara	74	↓1	16
4	Helen	63	–	4
5	Ruth	63	↑1	6
6	Margaret	62	↑4	5
7	Shirley	59	↑2	14
8	Pauline	55	↑3	39
9	Elizabeth	53	↓4	11
10	Marion	51	↓3	47
11	Doris	50	↓3	7
12	Theresa	49	↑28	64
13	Marjorie	46	↑2	22
14	Lorraine	40	↑4	53
15	Betty	38	↓1	3
16	Jean	36	↑8	12
17	Patricia	36	↑3	23
18	Virginia	36	↓5	8
19	Florence	35	↑26	26
20	Rita	34	↑1	50
21	Beverly	31	↑4	74
22	Alice	30	↓10	17
23	Gloria	30	↑6	20
24	June	29	↑7	40
25	Phyllis	29	↓2	33
26	Evelyn	28	↓7	13
27	Irene	27	↓11	21
28	Eleanor	26	↓1	32
29	Marie	25	↑3	18
30	Thelma	24	↑9	36
31	Arlene	23	↑11	>100
32	Joyce	23	↓15	44
33	Marilyn	23	↑17	65
34	Mildred	23	↑4	9
35	Norma	23	↓13	29
36	Lillian	22	↓6	28
37	Geraldine	21	↓2	54
38	Lucille	21	↓1	43
39	Frances	20	↓11	10
40	Charlotte	19	↓14	78
41	Priscilla	19	new	>100
42	Elaine	18	↑4	68
43	Gladys	18	new	35
44	Edna	17	new	38
45	Gertrude	17	new	71
46	Lois	17	new	19
47	Louise	17	↓6	27
48	Beatrice	16	↓15	58
49	Ethel	16	new	41
50	Katherine	16	↓14	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	150	–	1
2	Richard	110	↑2	7
3	John	97	↓1	2
4	William	92	↑1	4
5	George	81	↑1	6
6	Donald	76	↓3	9
7	Charles	63	↑4	5
8	Raymond	62	–	15
9	Francis	57	↑5	35
10	Edward	54	↓3	10
11	Paul	52	↑2	13
12	James	50	↓3	3
13	Kenneth	44	↑2	18
14	Harold	42	↓4	14
15	Howard	39	↑4	27
16	Joseph	37	↓4	8
17	David	35	↑13	22
18	Thomas	34	↑6	11
19	Arthur	32	↓2	20
20	Henry	32	↑2	19
21	Leo	32	↑19	54
22	Walter	32	↑3	17
23	Ralph	31	–	24
24	Bernard	30	↓6	49
25	Gerald	30	↑8	41
26	Lawrence	30	↓10	36
27	Stanley	30	↑22	43
28	Albert	29	↑4	21
29	Frederick	29	–	64
30	Gordon	29	↓10	76
31	Roland	28	↑5	>100
32	Ernest	27	↑2	37
33	Norman	27	↑2	39
34	Clarence	24	↑5	29
35	Wayne	23	new	68
36	Earl	21	↓15	32
37	Floyd	21	new	53
38	Harry	21	↓11	25
39	Leonard	20	↑3	38
40	Roger	20	↓3	89
41	Alfred	19	↓3	45
42	Eugene	17	new	23
43	Maurice	16	–	>100
44	Reginald	16	↓16	>100
45	Frank	15	↓19	12
46	Edwin	14	new	55
47	Elmer	14	new	61
48	Wilfred	14	new	>100
49	Ronald	13	new	88
50	Russell	13	new	52

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