Popular baby names in Vermont, 1930

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1930 were Mary for girls (126 babies) and Robert for boys (201). Social Security records list 5,095 babies born in Vermont in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1930

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: 18 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Janice: 21 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Arlene: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lorraine: 48 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Marion: 39 babies, 4× the national rate
Pauline: 41 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Beverly: 56 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Theresa: 40 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Anita: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Beatrice: 23 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 21 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Roger: 43 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Gordon: 34 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roland: 21 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Francis: 51 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Maurice: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Frederick: 26 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Bernard: 33 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Wayne: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Leon: 17 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	126	–	1
2	Barbara	90	–	6
3	Shirley	78	↑1	11
4	Dorothy	68	↓1	3
5	Betty	66	–	2
6	Joyce	63	↑6	18
7	Patricia	63	↑3	7
8	Beverly	56	↑5	34
9	Jean	51	↓1	14
10	Ruth	49	↑15	10
11	Lorraine	48	↑3	46
12	Doris	46	↑14	9
13	Elizabeth	46	↓2	15
14	Helen	43	↓8	4
15	Margaret	43	↑1	5
16	Pauline	41	↓9	52
17	Theresa	40	↓8	50
18	Marion	39	↓3	60
19	Phyllis	39	↑5	28
20	Joan	37	new	8
21	Marie	36	↓1	26
22	Rita	32	–	42
23	Virginia	31	↓5	12
24	Alice	30	↓5	20
25	Evelyn	30	↑6	19
26	Marjorie	30	↓9	32
27	Marilyn	29	↑2	22
28	Frances	28	↑14	16
29	Nancy	27	new	24
30	Arlene	26	new	>100
31	Gloria	26	new	30
32	Irene	25	↓4	33
33	June	25	↑2	47
34	Eleanor	24	↓13	39
35	Beatrice	23	↑5	76
36	Janet	23	new	53
37	Lois	22	↓4	17
38	Norma	22	new	25
39	Janice	21	↓1	>100
40	Lucille	21	↓10	59
41	Charlotte	20	↑6	75
42	Mildred	20	↓19	21
43	Lillian	19	↓11	44
44	Priscilla	18	new	>100
45	Catherine	17	↓11	35
46	Elaine	17	↓19	69
47	Jane	17	↓1	55
48	Martha	17	new	27
49	Anita	16	new	>100
50	Ann	16	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	201	–	1
2	Richard	156	–	5
3	John	126	–	3
4	William	88	–	4
5	Donald	83	–	7
6	George	73	↑2	8
7	James	70	↓1	2
8	Charles	65	↑3	6
9	Raymond	58	↓2	16
10	Paul	56	↓1	12
11	Joseph	55	↑2	9
12	Edward	53	↓2	10
13	Francis	51	↑2	42
14	Kenneth	49	–	17
15	David	44	↑5	15
16	Roger	43	↑7	58
17	Arthur	38	–	23
18	Gordon	34	↑10	77
19	Bernard	33	↓3	52
20	Ralph	33	↑10	25
21	Lawrence	32	↑1	36
22	Henry	31	↓3	22
23	Albert	30	↓5	24
24	Harold	30	↓12	18
25	Thomas	30	↑12	11
26	Gerald	28	↓5	30
27	Ronald	28	↑19	37
28	Frank	27	↑5	13
29	Walter	27	↑12	19
30	Frederick	26	↓5	74
31	Howard	24	↑5	31
32	Stanley	24	↑3	49
33	Ernest	23	↓9	43
34	Norman	22	↓5	40
35	Harry	21	↓1	28
36	Reginald	21	↑4	>100
37	Roland	21	↓11	>100
38	Wayne	21	new	65
39	Alfred	19	↑9	46
40	Floyd	19	new	61
41	Earl	18	↓9	38
42	Eugene	18	↓4	21
43	Leonard	18	↑2	45
44	Leon	17	↓2	81
45	Carl	16	↓6	26
46	Herbert	16	↑3	35
47	Maurice	16	new	>100
48	Philip	16	↓5	75
49	Leo	14	↓22	63
50	Theodore	14	↓3	67

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