Popular baby names in Vermont, 1935

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1935 were Shirley for girls (133 babies) and Robert for boys (194). Shirley ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 4,987 babies born in Vermont in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1935

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

Girls

Claire: 25 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Pauline: 35 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Beverly: 74 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lucille: 26 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 29 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Theresa: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Janice: 35 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jacqueline: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Rita: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sylvia: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 20 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Roland: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Gordon: 21 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Clifford: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Leo: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Philip: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bernard: 22 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Frederick: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Francis: 26 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Norman: 31 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Shirley	133	↑3	2
2	Patricia	101	↑1	5
3	Mary	99	↓2	1
4	Barbara	92	↓2	3
5	Beverly	74	–	20
6	Joyce	67	↑1	12
7	Joan	66	↑2	7
8	Nancy	60	↑5	9
9	Betty	54	↓3	4
10	Elizabeth	53	↑1	17
11	Ruth	53	↑7	15
12	Jean	50	↑7	18
13	Dorothy	46	↓1	6
14	Janet	41	↓6	22
15	Marilyn	40	↑5	14
16	Margaret	36	↓6	8
17	Janice	35	↑8	47
18	Pauline	35	↓4	80
19	Helen	33	↓4	10
20	Alice	31	↑16	25
21	Doris	30	↑10	13
22	Lorraine	29	↓5	68
23	Phyllis	28	↑10	27
24	Jane	27	↑3	43
25	Carolyn	26	↑21	28
26	Lucille	26	new	85
27	Marie	26	↓11	33
28	Claire	25	↑10	>100
29	Marjorie	25	↑14	46
30	Eleanor	24	↑12	48
31	Theresa	24	↓10	86
32	Jacqueline	23	new	79
33	Marlene	23	new	39
34	Carol	22	↓4	11
35	Irene	22	↑2	52
36	Rita	22	↑4	63
37	Sylvia	22	↑4	60
38	Ann	21	↓9	30
39	Arlene	21	↓13	59
40	Frances	21	↑4	19
41	Lois	21	↓7	21
42	Sally	21	↑8	58
43	Sandra	21	new	50
44	Virginia	21	↓21	16
45	Gloria	20	↓21	32
46	Evelyn	18	↓7	31
47	Joanne	18	↓2	44
48	Martha	18	new	24
49	Norma	18	↓17	29
50	Elaine	17	↓28	51

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	194	–	1
2	Richard	176	–	5
3	John	116	↑1	3
4	Donald	109	↓1	7
5	William	104	↑1	4
6	James	93	↓1	2
7	Paul	62	↑5	14
8	Charles	56	↑2	6
9	Ronald	54	↑7	12
10	George	53	↓3	8
11	Raymond	49	–	17
12	Kenneth	46	↓4	15
13	Edward	43	↑2	13
14	David	42	↓5	11
15	Arthur	39	↑10	29
16	Joseph	38	↑1	10
17	Norman	31	↑2	38
18	Roger	30	↑4	36
19	Thomas	30	↓5	9
20	Harold	27	↓2	20
21	Lawrence	27	↓1	35
22	Francis	26	↓9	53
23	Gerald	26	↑1	21
24	Walter	26	↓1	23
25	Wayne	25	↑7	49
26	Philip	24	↑20	65
27	Ralph	24	–	32
28	Bernard	22	↓2	67
29	Frank	22	↑10	16
30	Gordon	21	↓1	70
31	Stanley	21	↓3	56
32	Eugene	20	↑13	26
33	Howard	20	↓3	39
34	Maurice	20	↓13	>100
35	Frederick	19	–	73
36	Albert	18	↓3	31
37	Clifford	18	new	88
38	Ernest	18	↑4	55
39	Henry	18	↓3	27
40	Peter	18	new	59
41	Leo	17	↓10	92
42	Louis	17	↑1	42
43	Roland	17	↓6	>100
44	Leonard	16	new	54
45	Arnold	14	↓1	>100
46	Carl	14	↓6	28
47	Leon	13	↑3	86
48	Reginald	13	↓1	>100
49	Alfred	12	↓8	63
50	Bruce	12	↓12	77

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