Popular baby names in Vermont, 1933

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1933 were Mary for girls (117 babies) and Robert for boys (199). Social Security records list 4,609 babies born in Vermont in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1933

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: 16 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Claire: 21 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Theresa: 35 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Janice: 32 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Pauline: 36 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Marion: 31 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rita: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 35 babies, 4× the national rate
Constance: 18 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Anita: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Roland: 19 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Bernard: 33 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Roger: 35 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Frederick: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Gordon: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Francis: 32 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bruce: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Norman: 37 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Douglas: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	117	–	1
2	Barbara	92	–	3
3	Patricia	77	↑1	6
4	Joyce	74	↓1	12
5	Shirley	64	↑1	9
6	Betty	61	↓1	2
7	Dorothy	55	↑2	4
8	Joan	54	↑5	5
9	Elizabeth	50	↑1	17
10	Beverly	47	↓3	26
11	Janet	40	↑6	25
12	Marilyn	39	↑2	16
13	Nancy	39	↑18	11
14	Ruth	39	↑2	13
15	Margaret	38	↑4	7
16	Pauline	36	↓8	64
17	Rita	36	↑12	53
18	Virginia	36	↑2	15
19	Lorraine	35	↑3	54
20	Theresa	35	↑3	70
21	Janice	32	↑3	81
22	Eleanor	31	↑19	38
23	Helen	31	↓11	8
24	Marion	31	↑13	73
25	Phyllis	31	↓7	28
26	Jean	29	↓15	14
27	June	29	↑8	45
28	Doris	28	↓13	10
29	Marie	25	↑7	33
30	Marlene	24	new	50
31	Ann	23	↑16	34
32	Carolyn	22	new	40
33	Frances	22	new	18
34	Claire	21	↓7	>100
35	Elaine	21	↓2	61
36	Louise	21	new	39
37	Sylvia	21	↑12	84
38	Florence	20	new	49
39	Gloria	20	↓13	31
40	Alice	19	↓19	22
41	Charlotte	19	↑3	79
42	Evelyn	19	↓12	30
43	Irene	19	↓5	46
44	Norma	19	↓12	23
45	Constance	18	new	>100
46	Lois	18	–	19
47	Carol	17	new	20
48	Jane	17	↓6	47
49	Lucille	17	↓6	78
50	Mildred	16	new	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Robert	199	–	1
2	John	119	↑1	3
3	Richard	114	↓1	5
4	William	93	↑1	4
5	Donald	92	↓1	7
6	James	71	↑1	2
7	Raymond	65	↑4	19
8	Charles	61	↑2	6
9	Paul	58	↓3	14
10	George	57	↓2	8
11	Joseph	53	↑6	9
12	Edward	51	↓3	11
13	David	41	↑1	13
14	Kenneth	41	↑4	15
15	Harold	40	↓3	18
16	Ronald	38	↓1	12
17	Norman	37	↑4	37
18	Roger	35	↑1	48
19	Bernard	33	↑1	63
20	Francis	32	↓7	45
21	Arthur	30	↑10	25
22	Thomas	29	↑8	10
23	Lawrence	26	–	38
24	Albert	22	↓8	30
25	Gordon	22	↑3	71
26	Frederick	21	↑7	78
27	Henry	21	↑5	24
28	Maurice	21	↑10	>100
29	Wayne	21	↓4	52
30	Gerald	20	↓8	22
31	Howard	19	↓5	36
32	Leonard	19	new	47
33	Roland	19	↑7	>100
34	Ernest	17	↓10	50
35	Frank	17	↑2	16
36	Bruce	16	↑14	91
37	Douglas	16	↑6	81
38	Louis	16	↑4	40
39	Peter	16	↑8	60
40	Ralph	16	↓6	29
41	Earl	15	↓5	41
42	Leo	15	↑3	75
43	Alfred	14	new	57
44	Lloyd	14	↓3	73
45	Arnold	13	new	>100
46	Roy	13	new	39
47	Stanley	13	↓18	55
48	Walter	13	↓13	21
49	Alan	12	–	>100
50	Franklin	12	new	33

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