Popular baby names in Vermont, 1932

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1932 were Mary for girls (127 babies) and Robert for boys (219). Social Security records list 4,817 babies born in Vermont in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1932

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

Girls

Jeannine: 15 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Jeannette: 22 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Claire: 26 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Pauline: 56 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Janice: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Anita: 20 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jacqueline: 24 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Theresa: 30 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Beverly: 58 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Lorraine: 30 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 16 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Francis: 46 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Roland: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Gordon: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Bernard: 30 babies, 4× the national rate
Roger: 33 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Wayne: 26 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Frederick: 19 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Ernest: 26 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Stanley: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	127	–	1
2	Barbara	89	–	3
3	Joyce	70	↑2	12
4	Patricia	67	–	6
5	Betty	64	↓2	2
6	Shirley	60	–	9
7	Beverly	58	↑1	28
8	Pauline	56	↑6	59
9	Dorothy	55	↑2	4
10	Elizabeth	47	↓3	17
11	Jean	46	↑1	15
12	Helen	44	↑3	8
13	Joan	43	↑6	5
14	Marilyn	42	↑6	16
15	Doris	41	↑28	10
16	Ruth	41	↓7	11
17	Janet	34	↑30	35
18	Phyllis	34	↑6	30
19	Margaret	32	↓6	7
20	Virginia	32	↓4	14
21	Alice	30	↑1	21
22	Lorraine	30	↓1	55
23	Theresa	30	↓13	60
24	Janice	29	↑13	94
25	Marjorie	28	↑3	37
26	Gloria	27	↑1	25
27	Claire	26	↑15	>100
28	Jacqueline	24	↑16	85
29	Rita	24	↓12	53
30	Evelyn	23	↑2	23
31	Nancy	23	↓8	13
32	Norma	23	↑6	22
33	Elaine	22	new	68
34	Jeannette	22	new	>100
35	June	22	↓9	44
36	Marie	22	↓7	31
37	Marion	22	↓19	73
38	Irene	21	↓13	43
39	Anita	20	new	>100
40	Arlene	20	–	80
41	Eleanor	20	↓6	45
42	Jane	20	↓8	49
43	Lucille	18	↓10	63
44	Charlotte	17	↓14	74
45	Lillian	17	↑3	48
46	Lois	17	↓7	20
47	Ann	16	↓16	34
48	Beatrice	16	new	87
49	Sylvia	16	new	96
50	Anne	15	new	81

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	219	–	1
2	Richard	134	–	5
3	John	104	–	3
4	Donald	95	–	7
5	William	76	–	4
6	Paul	71	↑3	13
7	James	67	↓1	2
8	George	61	↑2	8
9	Edward	59	↑2	11
10	Charles	58	↓2	6
11	Raymond	54	↓4	19
12	Harold	53	↑11	18
13	Francis	46	–	43
14	David	41	↑3	12
15	Ronald	41	↑21	16
16	Albert	37	↑26	26
17	Joseph	37	↓5	9
18	Kenneth	33	↓2	14
19	Roger	33	–	50
20	Bernard	30	↓2	60
21	Norman	30	↑8	37
22	Gerald	29	↑5	24
23	Lawrence	29	↓9	35
24	Ernest	26	new	47
25	Wayne	26	↑7	57
26	Howard	25	↓5	36
27	Eugene	23	↑4	22
28	Gordon	23	↑5	81
29	Stanley	23	↑12	52
30	Thomas	23	↓10	10
31	Arthur	22	↓16	25
32	Henry	21	↑2	23
33	Frederick	19	↑4	73
34	Ralph	19	↓12	27
35	Walter	19	↓10	21
36	Earl	16	↓6	41
37	Frank	16	↓11	15
38	Maurice	16	↓14	>100
39	Philip	16	↑8	70
40	Roland	16	↓2	>100
41	Lloyd	15	↑5	71
42	Louis	14	↓2	39
43	Douglas	13	new	85
44	Harry	13	↓16	32
45	Leo	13	↓10	74
46	Leon	13	new	83
47	Peter	13	new	62
48	Reginald	13	–	>100
49	Alan	12	new	>100
50	Bruce	12	new	98

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