Popular baby names in Vermont, 1937

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1937 were Mary for girls (104 babies) and Robert for boys (210). Social Security records list 4,778 babies born in Vermont in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1937

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: 17 babies, 8× the national rate
Pauline: 30 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Theresa: 29 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Beverly: 83 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Marion: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Rita: 24 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Lorraine: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Elaine: 29 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Joanne: 28 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Lucille: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 19 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Leo: 27 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Frederick: 26 babies, 4× the national rate
Gordon: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Francis: 29 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Norman: 35 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Philip: 23 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Roger: 40 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Wayne: 29 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Bernard: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	104	↑1	1
2	Patricia	103	↑2	3
3	Shirley	91	↓2	4
4	Barbara	83	↓1	2
5	Beverly	83	↑1	14
6	Nancy	66	↑3	7
7	Joan	60	↓2	9
8	Jean	44	↑5	23
9	Joyce	44	↓1	11
10	Betty	42	↓3	5
11	Sandra	42	↑13	26
12	Elizabeth	41	↓2	17
13	Margaret	41	↑7	10
14	Janice	40	↑2	25
15	Janet	38	↓3	18
16	Carol	34	↑3	6
17	Dorothy	32	↓6	8
18	Marilyn	32	↓4	13
19	Phyllis	32	↓1	27
20	Pauline	30	↓3	87
21	Ann	29	↑12	30
22	Elaine	29	↑8	45
23	Helen	29	↓1	12
24	Theresa	29	↑22	95
25	Joanne	28	new	51
26	Judith	25	↑5	34
27	Gloria	24	new	32
28	Marlene	24	↓1	40
29	Rita	24	↑9	69
30	Virginia	24	↓7	16
31	Marie	23	↑4	35
32	Frances	22	↑9	19
33	Louise	22	new	48
34	Ruth	22	↓19	15
35	Lorraine	21	↑2	83
36	Carolyn	19	↓10	20
37	Eleanor	19	↓3	53
38	Jane	19	↑6	42
39	Doris	18	↓18	22
40	Marion	18	↓8	>100
41	Marjorie	18	↑2	57
42	Norma	18	↓13	33
43	Sylvia	18	↓4	50
44	Claire	17	↑4	>100
45	Lois	17	↑2	29
46	Alice	16	↓21	28
47	Evelyn	16	↓7	36
48	Florence	16	new	81
49	Jacqueline	16	↓13	70
50	Martha	16	new	24

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Robert	210	–	1
2	Richard	146	–	5
3	John	118	–	3
4	William	100	–	4
5	James	94	↑1	2
6	Donald	91	↓1	7
7	David	89	–	8
8	Charles	65	↑1	6
9	Paul	61	↑2	15
10	Ronald	60	–	11
11	George	56	↓3	10
12	Raymond	52	↑2	19
13	Edward	45	↓1	13
14	Roger	40	↑1	36
15	Arthur	39	↑6	31
16	Thomas	39	↑2	9
17	Joseph	37	↓1	12
18	Norman	35	↑7	43
19	Francis	29	↓2	55
20	Kenneth	29	↓7	14
21	Wayne	29	↑7	44
22	Harold	28	–	21
23	Leo	27	↑23	97
24	Frederick	26	↑7	68
25	Albert	25	↓6	37
26	Lawrence	24	↓3	38
27	Gordon	23	↑8	75
28	Philip	23	↑4	62
29	Stanley	21	↓5	57
30	Carl	20	↑14	28
31	Larry	20	new	16
32	Maurice	19	↓6	>100
33	Bernard	17	↓6	73
34	Gary	17	new	29
35	Bruce	16	↓2	70
36	Earl	16	new	48
37	Ernest	16	↑1	53
38	Frank	16	↓9	18
39	Peter	16	↑3	52
40	Gerald	15	↓20	20
41	Ralph	15	↓11	34
42	Dale	14	new	59
43	Douglas	14	↓6	74
44	Wendell	14	new	>100
45	Alfred	13	new	60
46	Allen	13	↓3	76
47	Clarence	13	new	54
48	Eugene	13	↓9	33
49	Henry	13	new	30
50	Roy	13	new	40

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