Popular baby names in Vermont, 1931

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1931 were Mary for girls (114 babies) and Robert for boys (219). Social Security records list 5,093 babies born in Vermont in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1931

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

Girls

Theresa: 52 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Claire: 18 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Pauline: 44 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Marion: 37 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Janice: 21 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Rita: 39 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Charlotte: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Beverly: 53 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Lorraine: 35 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Constance: 15 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Wendell: 18 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Maurice: 29 babies, 8× the national rate
Roland: 18 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Francis: 47 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Bernard: 33 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Roger: 33 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lawrence: 45 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Gordon: 20 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Leo: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Frederick: 18 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	114	–	1
2	Barbara	97	–	4
3	Betty	83	↑2	2
4	Patricia	77	↑3	8
5	Joyce	71	↑1	15
6	Shirley	69	↓3	9
7	Elizabeth	68	↑6	16
8	Beverly	53	–	31
9	Ruth	52	↑1	11
10	Theresa	52	↑7	59
11	Dorothy	51	↓7	3
12	Jean	51	↓3	13
13	Margaret	46	↑2	7
14	Pauline	44	↑2	56
15	Helen	42	↓1	6
16	Virginia	42	↑7	12
17	Rita	39	↑5	48
18	Marion	37	–	66
19	Joan	36	↑1	5
20	Marilyn	36	↑7	19
21	Lorraine	35	↓10	49
22	Alice	34	↑2	21
23	Nancy	34	↑6	17
24	Phyllis	33	↓5	29
25	Irene	32	↑7	37
26	June	31	↑7	44
27	Gloria	30	↑4	23
28	Marjorie	30	↓2	34
29	Marie	29	↓8	27
30	Charlotte	28	↑11	75
31	Ann	26	↑19	35
32	Evelyn	26	↓7	24
33	Lucille	26	↑7	62
34	Jane	25	↑13	50
35	Eleanor	24	↓1	40
36	Geraldine	23	new	38
37	Janice	21	↑2	>100
38	Norma	21	–	22
39	Lois	20	↓2	20
40	Arlene	19	↓10	77
41	Catherine	19	↑4	36
42	Claire	18	new	>100
43	Doris	18	↓31	10
44	Jacqueline	18	new	78
45	Rose	18	new	30
46	Florence	17	new	43
47	Janet	17	↓11	45
48	Lillian	17	↓5	47
49	Martha	16	↓1	28
50	Constance	15	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	219	–	1
2	Richard	151	–	5
3	John	131	–	3
4	Donald	103	↑1	7
5	William	91	↓1	4
6	James	70	↑1	2
7	Raymond	63	↑2	17
8	Charles	59	–	6
9	Paul	56	↑1	12
10	George	54	↓4	8
11	Edward	52	↑1	11
12	Joseph	50	↓1	9
13	Francis	47	–	42
14	Lawrence	45	↑7	38
15	Arthur	44	↑2	23
16	Kenneth	42	↓2	14
17	David	41	↓2	13
18	Bernard	33	↑1	54
19	Roger	33	↓3	53
20	Thomas	33	↑5	10
21	Howard	32	↑10	34
22	Ralph	31	↓2	25
23	Harold	29	↑1	18
24	Maurice	29	↑23	>100
25	Walter	29	↑4	20
26	Frank	27	↑2	16
27	Gerald	25	↓1	26
28	Harry	25	↑7	30
29	Norman	25	↑5	36
30	Earl	24	↑11	40
31	Eugene	24	↑11	21
32	Wayne	22	↑6	58
33	Gordon	20	↓15	76
34	Henry	20	↓12	22
35	Leo	20	↑14	69
36	Ronald	20	↓9	27
37	Frederick	18	↓7	73
38	Roland	18	↓1	>100
39	Wendell	18	new	>100
40	Louis	17	new	37
41	Stanley	17	↓9	49
42	Albert	16	↓19	24
43	Alfred	16	↓4	50
44	Edwin	16	new	67
45	Clayton	14	new	>100
46	Lloyd	14	new	68
47	Philip	14	↑1	71
48	Reginald	14	↓12	>100
49	Carl	13	↓4	28
50	Leonard	13	↓7	48

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