Popular baby names in Vermont, 1927

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1927 were Mary for girls (115 babies) and Robert for boys (202). Social Security records list 5,008 babies born in Vermont in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1927

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: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Theresa: 57 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Pauline: 57 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Beverly: 44 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Marion: 44 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Arlene: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Janet: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Joyce: 51 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 43 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Barbara: 75 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 16 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Roland: 28 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Bernard: 48 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Gordon: 31 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Leo: 34 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Roger: 20 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Francis: 38 babies, 3× the national rate
Frederick: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Wayne: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Ernest: 28 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	115	–	1
2	Dorothy	87	–	2
3	Barbara	75	–	10
4	Ruth	67	↑1	6
5	Helen	64	↓1	4
6	Shirley	58	↑1	9
7	Pauline	57	↑1	42
8	Theresa	57	↑4	52
9	Margaret	52	↓3	5
10	Joyce	51	↑22	35
11	Elizabeth	49	↓2	13
12	Patricia	46	↑5	18
13	Jean	45	↑3	14
14	Beverly	44	↑7	57
15	Marion	44	↓5	51
16	Virginia	44	↑2	8
17	Lorraine	43	↓3	44
18	Betty	40	↓3	3
19	Doris	40	↓8	7
20	Evelyn	38	↑6	15
21	Marie	36	↑8	20
22	Irene	34	↑5	21
23	Eleanor	32	↑5	33
24	Phyllis	32	↑1	29
25	Alice	30	↓3	17
26	Rita	28	↓6	54
27	Lucille	27	↑11	45
28	June	25	↓4	43
29	Beatrice	24	↑19	67
30	Frances	22	↑9	12
31	Marilyn	22	↑2	46
32	Arlene	21	↓1	>100
33	Catherine	21	new	31
34	Janet	21	new	>100
35	Marjorie	21	↓22	25
36	Norma	21	↓1	26
37	Florence	20	↓18	28
38	Gloria	20	↓15	22
39	Lillian	20	↓3	32
40	Madeline	20	new	>100
41	Thelma	20	↓11	38
42	Gertrude	18	↑3	78
43	Lois	18	↑3	19
44	Louise	18	↑3	27
45	Mildred	18	↓11	11
46	Bernice	17	new	49
47	Geraldine	17	↓10	58
48	Carolyn	16	new	99
49	Elaine	16	↓7	69
50	Jane	16	new	60

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	202	–	1
2	John	119	↑1	2
3	Richard	113	↓1	6
4	Charles	85	↑3	5
5	Donald	79	↑1	8
6	William	79	↓2	4
7	James	78	↑5	3
8	George	70	↓3	7
9	Harold	66	↑5	14
10	Raymond	66	↓2	15
11	Edward	57	↓1	10
12	Paul	55	↓1	13
13	Bernard	48	↑11	50
14	Joseph	48	↑2	9
15	Francis	38	↓6	36
16	Thomas	37	↑2	11
17	Leo	34	↑4	55
18	Frank	33	↑27	12
19	Arthur	32	–	22
20	Howard	32	↓5	28
21	Kenneth	32	↓8	18
22	Gordon	31	↑8	74
23	David	29	↓6	21
24	Lawrence	29	↑2	37
25	Ernest	28	↑7	41
26	Gerald	28	↓1	38
27	Norman	28	↑6	39
28	Ralph	28	↓5	24
29	Roland	28	↑2	>100
30	Earl	27	↑6	33
31	Harry	27	↑7	25
32	Stanley	27	↓5	44
33	Walter	25	↓11	17
34	Henry	22	↓14	19
35	Eugene	21	↑7	20
36	Frederick	21	↓7	64
37	Albert	20	↓9	23
38	Roger	20	↑2	84
39	Leonard	19	–	40
40	Edwin	18	↑6	57
41	Wayne	17	↓6	67
42	Clifford	16	new	65
43	Louis	16	new	29
44	Reginald	16	–	>100
45	Alfred	15	↓4	45
46	Russell	15	↑4	54
47	Herbert	14	new	42
48	Maurice	14	↓5	>100
49	Ronald	14	–	63
50	Clarence	13	↓16	32

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