Popular baby names in Vermont, 1928

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1928 were Mary for girls (123 babies) and Robert for boys (195). Social Security records list 5,070 babies born in Vermont in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1928

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

Girls

Jeannette: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Madeline: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Theresa: 66 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Arlene: 31 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Beverly: 62 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Janice: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Marion: 45 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Pauline: 45 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Barbara: 112 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Rita: 34 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 20 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Gordon: 32 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Roger: 32 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Roland: 19 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Frederick: 28 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Leo: 25 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Douglas: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Francis: 42 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Bernard: 31 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Ernest: 36 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	123	–	1
2	Barbara	112	↑1	8
3	Theresa	66	↑5	49
4	Dorothy	65	↓2	3
5	Betty	62	↑13	2
6	Beverly	62	↑8	46
7	Shirley	62	↓1	10
8	Patricia	58	↑4	11
9	Elizabeth	56	↑2	14
10	Ruth	56	↓6	6
11	Margaret	52	↓2	5
12	Jean	50	↑1	12
13	Doris	49	↑6	7
14	Joyce	47	↓4	30
15	Marion	45	–	47
16	Pauline	45	↓9	48
17	Phyllis	44	↑7	26
18	Lorraine	42	↓1	39
19	Virginia	42	↓3	9
20	Helen	41	↓15	4
21	Marjorie	39	↑14	29
22	Gloria	35	↑16	25
23	Alice	34	↑2	19
24	Rita	34	↑2	57
25	Marilyn	33	↑6	38
26	Arlene	31	↑6	>100
27	Eleanor	30	↓4	36
28	Irene	28	↓6	28
29	Marie	27	↓8	21
30	Charlotte	25	new	72
31	Anna	24	new	16
32	Beatrice	24	↓3	70
33	Catherine	24	–	33
34	Evelyn	24	↓14	17
35	Lois	24	↑8	18
36	Frances	23	↓6	13
37	Lucille	23	↓10	51
38	Jane	21	↑12	62
39	Elaine	20	↑10	68
40	Florence	19	↓3	32
41	Geraldine	18	↑6	50
42	June	18	↓14	44
43	Madeline	18	↓3	>100
44	Thelma	18	↓3	40
45	Grace	17	new	52
46	Joan	17	new	27
47	Lillian	17	↓8	35
48	Norma	17	↓12	23
49	Audrey	16	new	60
50	Esther	16	new	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Robert	195	–	1
2	John	133	–	2
3	Richard	122	–	6
4	William	79	↑2	4
5	Donald	75	–	7
6	James	73	↑1	3
7	Raymond	70	↑3	16
8	George	65	–	8
9	Edward	60	↑2	10
10	Paul	57	↑2	13
11	Charles	55	↓7	5
12	Joseph	55	↑2	9
13	Harold	51	↓4	14
14	Francis	42	↑1	40
15	Arthur	39	↑4	22
16	Kenneth	39	↑5	17
17	Ernest	36	↑8	43
18	Gordon	32	↑4	77
19	Roger	32	↑19	71
20	Bernard	31	↓7	49
21	Frederick	28	↑15	67
22	Howard	28	↓2	31
23	Alfred	27	↑22	33
24	Henry	27	↑10	21
25	Lawrence	27	↓1	38
26	Eugene	26	↑9	20
27	Ralph	26	↑1	24
28	Stanley	26	↑4	45
29	Leo	25	↓12	61
30	Walter	25	↑3	18
31	Albert	24	↑6	23
32	David	24	↓9	19
33	Norman	24	↓6	39
34	Frank	23	↓16	12
35	Thomas	23	↓19	11
36	Earl	22	↓6	37
37	Gerald	21	↓11	41
38	Herbert	20	↑9	25
39	Maurice	20	↑9	>100
40	Wayne	20	↑1	69
41	Leonard	19	↓2	42
42	Roland	19	↓13	>100
43	Philip	17	new	73
44	Theodore	16	new	66
45	Clarence	15	↑5	35
46	Douglas	15	new	>100
47	Harry	15	↓16	26
48	Roy	14	new	34
49	Russell	14	↓3	55
50	Floyd	13	new	54

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