Popular baby names in Vermont, 1942

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1942 were Mary for girls (128 babies) and Robert for boys (194). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,374 babies born in Vermont in 1942 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1942

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

Girls

Pauline: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Lorraine: 25 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Theresa: 23 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Marion: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Audrey: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Cynthia: 17 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sylvia: 18 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jacqueline: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Irene: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Eleanor: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 20 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Roland: 21 babies, 7× the national rate
Bernard: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Francis: 34 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bruce: 36 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Frederick: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Gordon: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Norman: 26 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Raymond: 59 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Roger: 49 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1942

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Mary	128	↑1	1
2	Sandra	113	↑2	6
3	Patricia	109	↓2	3
4	Nancy	84	↑1	8
5	Linda	82	↑2	4
6	Judith	74	↑3	7
7	Barbara	69	↓4	2
8	Carol	69	–	5
9	Joan	65	↑2	18
10	Donna	45	↑12	20
11	Gloria	42	↑10	31
12	Shirley	42	↓2	12
13	Susan	41	↑7	21
14	Elizabeth	39	↑2	22
15	Betty	38	↓9	9
16	Joyce	37	↓4	13
17	Ruth	36	↑20	33
18	Beverly	35	↓5	32
19	Janet	33	↓1	19
20	Margaret	33	↓1	14
21	Janice	32	↑10	25
22	Carolyn	31	↓5	10
23	Jean	30	↓9	36
24	Virginia	30	↑8	23
25	Ann	28	↑16	38
26	Dorothy	28	↓3	17
27	Lorraine	25	↓1	91
28	Brenda	23	↑2	40
29	Elaine	23	↑15	45
30	Pauline	23	↑10	>100
31	Theresa	23	new	98
32	Jane	22	↑2	46
33	Marilyn	22	↓18	27
34	Martha	21	new	29
35	Sally	21	↓2	56
36	Diane	20	new	28
37	Marie	20	↓8	43
38	Phyllis	20	↓2	37
39	Sharon	20	new	11
40	Carole	19	↓2	35
41	Joanne	19	↓16	48
42	Kathleen	19	↑3	24
43	Jacqueline	18	↓4	69
44	Sylvia	18	↑4	72
45	Cynthia	17	new	>100
46	Audrey	16	new	>100
47	Bonnie	16	new	34
48	Helen	16	↓20	26
49	Irene	16	new	80
50	Judy	16	↓15	15

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Robert	194	–	2
2	Richard	149	–	5
3	John	138	–	3
4	David	127	↑1	6
5	James	117	↓1	1
6	William	101	–	4
7	Donald	90	–	10
8	Ronald	74	–	9
9	Charles	73	↑4	7
10	Thomas	71	–	8
11	Michael	65	↑6	13
12	George	63	↓1	14
13	Raymond	59	↓4	24
14	Douglas	55	↑22	23
15	Paul	55	↓3	19
16	Edward	53	↓2	17
17	Roger	49	↓2	25
18	Kenneth	46	↑6	15
19	Lawrence	39	↑6	30
20	Gary	37	↑1	18
21	Bruce	36	↑17	50
22	Francis	34	↑7	58
23	Joseph	34	↓7	11
24	Gerald	32	↑20	22
25	Arthur	31	↑14	29
26	Larry	30	↓8	12
27	Peter	30	↓8	39
28	Stephen	29	↓5	32
29	Wayne	29	↓9	41
30	Norman	26	↓4	53
31	Frederick	25	↑9	68
32	Albert	22	↓5	40
33	Bernard	22	↓5	90
34	Philip	21	↓1	54
35	Roland	21	↑12	>100
36	Walter	21	↓5	26
37	Maurice	20	new	>100
38	Dennis	19	↑4	20
39	Howard	18	↓9	49
40	Ralph	18	↓3	38
41	Frank	17	↓6	21
42	Stanley	17	↓1	56
43	Alan	16	↑5	81
44	Harold	16	↓22	27
45	Henry	16	–	31
46	Gordon	15	↓14	92
47	Daniel	14	new	28
48	Earl	14	new	62
49	Eugene	14	↑1	45
50	Roy	14	new	42

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