Popular baby names in Vermont, 1940

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1940 were Mary for girls (123 babies) and Richard for boys (186). Richard ranked #5 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,063 babies born in Vermont in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1940

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: 19 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 16 babies, 7× the national rate
Theresa: 25 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Pauline: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Marion: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Lucille: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Jane: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Anne: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elaine: 27 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 17 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Roland: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Rodney: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Francis: 39 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Leo: 16 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Gordon: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Bernard: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Alan: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Wayne: 38 babies, 3× the national rate
Peter: 32 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Mary	123	–	1
2	Patricia	114	–	3
3	Barbara	107	–	2
4	Sandra	85	↑1	10
5	Shirley	80	↑5	9
6	Nancy	74	↓2	7
7	Judith	70	↑5	4
8	Joyce	63	↑3	13
9	Carol	56	↓2	6
10	Elizabeth	51	↑3	20
11	Joan	51	↓3	14
12	Linda	47	new	8
13	Janice	43	↑3	22
14	Jean	41	↑1	29
15	Margaret	40	↑2	11
16	Beverly	39	↓10	27
17	Marilyn	36	↑2	25
18	Dorothy	32	–	12
19	Janet	32	↓5	19
20	Betty	30	↓11	5
21	Jane	30	↑8	47
22	Ruth	30	↑12	24
23	Martha	29	↑9	26
24	Elaine	27	↓4	50
25	Marie	27	↑1	41
26	Ann	26	↓2	35
27	Gloria	26	↑16	30
28	Lorraine	26	↑10	95
29	Theresa	25	↑17	>100
30	Susan	23	↑10	36
31	Carolyn	22	↓10	15
32	Donna	22	↑4	23
33	Virginia	22	↑2	21
34	Helen	21	↓12	18
35	Pauline	21	↓12	>100
36	Sally	21	↓11	61
37	Alice	20	↓10	32
38	Joanne	20	↓1	54
39	Phyllis	20	↓11	33
40	Sylvia	20	↑1	62
41	Claire	19	↑6	>100
42	Doris	19	↑6	31
43	Kathleen	19	↓13	40
44	Gail	18	new	65
45	Jacqueline	18	↑5	76
46	Louise	18	new	59
47	Marion	18	new	>100
48	Marjorie	18	↓4	64
49	Norma	18	↓4	43
50	Anne	17	new	84

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Richard	186	↑1	5
2	Robert	180	↓1	2
3	John	147	–	3
4	David	108	↑2	7
5	James	105	–	1
6	William	103	↓2	4
7	Ronald	70	↑2	10
8	Donald	62	↓1	9
9	Charles	56	↑4	6
10	Kenneth	54	↑6	15
11	Paul	51	↓3	17
12	Roger	45	–	26
13	Thomas	45	↓2	8
14	Joseph	44	↑7	12
15	George	43	↓1	11
16	Edward	41	↑2	16
17	Francis	39	↓2	61
18	Raymond	38	↓8	22
19	Wayne	38	–	39
20	Arthur	33	↑9	33
21	Michael	32	↑6	18
22	Peter	32	↑3	43
23	Harold	31	↓3	23
24	Albert	27	↑13	41
25	Larry	26	↓1	13
26	Gary	24	↑13	19
27	Norman	24	↓4	48
28	Ralph	24	↑4	37
29	Stephen	24	new	49
30	Bruce	23	new	55
31	Eugene	23	↑13	38
32	Frank	22	↑13	20
33	Stanley	22	↑9	59
34	Henry	21	new	31
35	Gerald	19	↓13	21
36	Douglas	18	↓5	56
37	Philip	18	↓1	60
38	Bernard	17	↓8	82
39	Lawrence	17	↓22	36
40	Louis	17	↑6	50
41	Reginald	17	↓1	>100
42	Roland	17	↓1	>100
43	Alan	16	new	88
44	Daniel	16	↑3	34
45	Gordon	16	↓12	91
46	Leo	16	↑4	>100
47	Rodney	16	new	>100
48	Frederick	15	↑1	68
49	Patrick	15	new	74
50	Russell	14	↓15	72

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