Popular baby names in Vermont, 1939

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1939 were Mary for girls (106 babies) and Robert for boys (213). Social Security records list 4,853 babies born in Vermont in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1939

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: 16 babies, 8× the national rate
Priscilla: 18 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Pauline: 27 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Beverly: 61 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Lorraine: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Theresa: 17 babies, 3× the national rate
Sandra: 75 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Rita: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Elaine: 28 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sally: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 15 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Maurice: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Roland: 15 babies, 5× the national rate
Francis: 40 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Bernard: 20 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Roger: 54 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Gordon: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Raymond: 58 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Lawrence: 37 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Russell: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	106	–	1
2	Patricia	99	↑1	3
3	Barbara	98	↑1	2
4	Nancy	76	↑1	7
5	Sandra	75	↑5	13
6	Beverly	61	↑3	25
7	Carol	61	↑8	6
8	Joan	61	↓1	11
9	Betty	56	↓3	4
10	Shirley	52	↓8	5
11	Joyce	47	↓3	12
12	Judith	47	↑10	8
13	Elizabeth	44	↑1	18
14	Janet	41	↑10	17
15	Jean	41	↓4	32
16	Janice	38	↑3	24
17	Margaret	37	↓5	10
18	Dorothy	34	↓5	9
19	Marilyn	32	↑6	19
20	Elaine	28	↓2	45
21	Carolyn	27	↑5	14
22	Helen	27	↓5	16
23	Pauline	27	↓7	>100
24	Ann	25	↑7	33
25	Sally	25	↑7	52
26	Marie	24	↑23	37
27	Alice	22	↑3	31
28	Phyllis	22	–	30
29	Jane	21	↓8	46
30	Kathleen	20	new	48
31	Lois	20	↑17	35
32	Martha	20	↑3	27
33	Rita	20	↑8	78
34	Ruth	20	↑2	22
35	Virginia	19	↑15	21
36	Donna	18	↑8	20
37	Joanne	18	new	53
38	Lorraine	18	↓18	95
39	Priscilla	18	new	>100
40	Susan	18	new	44
41	Sylvia	18	↓18	62
42	Eleanor	17	new	63
43	Gloria	17	↓6	36
44	Marjorie	17	↓11	60
45	Norma	17	↑1	38
46	Theresa	17	↓17	94
47	Claire	16	↓4	>100
48	Doris	16	↓3	29
49	Irene	16	new	74
50	Jacqueline	15	↓23	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	213	–	1
2	Richard	153	–	5
3	John	146	–	3
4	William	107	↑1	4
5	James	100	↓1	2
6	David	92	–	7
7	Donald	64	–	8
8	Paul	61	↑4	17
9	Ronald	61	↓1	10
10	Raymond	58	↑1	22
11	Thomas	56	↑2	9
12	Roger	54	↑6	28
13	Charles	52	↓3	6
14	George	52	↑1	11
15	Francis	40	↑22	53
16	Kenneth	38	↓2	13
17	Lawrence	37	↑8	36
18	Edward	36	↓9	15
19	Wayne	33	↑2	39
20	Harold	29	↑8	23
21	Joseph	29	↓4	12
22	Gerald	26	↓3	19
23	Norman	26	↓7	44
24	Larry	25	↑14	14
25	Peter	24	↑5	46
26	Howard	23	↑1	47
27	Michael	23	↓4	18
28	Walter	23	↑19	25
29	Arthur	22	↓5	32
30	Bernard	20	↓4	76
31	Douglas	20	↑5	58
32	Ralph	19	↑12	35
33	Gordon	18	↑10	82
34	Maurice	18	↑12	>100
35	Russell	18	new	73
36	Philip	17	↓16	66
37	Albert	16	↑5	41
38	Allen	16	new	72
39	Gary	15	↓5	21
40	Reginald	15	↑1	>100
41	Roland	15	↑9	>100
42	Stanley	15	↓13	57
43	Carl	14	↓8	30
44	Eugene	14	↑1	37
45	Frank	14	↓13	20
46	Louis	14	new	49
47	Daniel	13	new	38
48	Everett	13	new	>100
49	Frederick	13	↓16	71
50	Leo	13	new	>100

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