Popular baby names in Vermont, 1943

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1943 were Mary for girls (121 babies) and Robert for boys (219). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,544 babies born in Vermont in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1943

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

Girls

Lorraine: 28 babies, 5× the national rate
Priscilla: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Theresa: 25 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Pauline: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lucille: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
June: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Jacqueline: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Sylvia: 21 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Pamela: 26 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Sally: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 15 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Francis: 36 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Bernard: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Gordon: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rodney: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Bruce: 38 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Norman: 31 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Alan: 26 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Peter: 41 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Douglas: 44 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	121	–	1
2	Patricia	109	↑1	3
3	Sandra	108	↓1	6
4	Linda	102	↑1	4
5	Barbara	90	↑2	2
6	Nancy	87	↓2	9
7	Carol	70	↑1	5
8	Judith	57	↓2	7
9	Donna	50	↑1	17
10	Shirley	50	↑2	12
11	Joyce	48	↑5	16
12	Sharon	40	↑27	8
13	Joan	39	↓4	21
14	Susan	39	↓1	18
15	Betty	38	–	10
16	Beverly	35	↑2	32
17	Elizabeth	35	↓3	23
18	Jean	35	↑5	36
19	Gloria	34	↓8	30
20	Janet	34	↓1	20
21	Margaret	34	↓1	14
22	Janice	31	↓1	26
23	Alice	29	new	38
24	Carolyn	29	↓2	11
25	Lorraine	28	↑2	94
26	Marie	28	↑11	45
27	Elaine	27	↑2	46
28	Judy	27	↑22	13
29	Ruth	27	↓12	33
30	Marilyn	26	↑3	27
31	Pamela	26	new	54
32	Diane	25	↑4	24
33	Jane	25	↓1	44
34	Theresa	25	↓3	100
35	Ann	24	↓10	37
36	Jacqueline	24	↑7	65
37	Kathleen	24	↑5	22
38	Sally	24	↓3	57
39	Virginia	24	↓15	25
40	Joanne	23	↑1	49
41	Martha	21	↓7	29
42	Pauline	21	↓12	>100
43	Sylvia	21	↑1	77
44	Bonnie	19	↑3	34
45	Dorothy	19	↓19	19
46	Frances	19	new	31
47	Phyllis	19	↓9	39
48	Gail	18	new	55
49	Karen	18	new	15
50	Lucille	18	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Robert	219	–	2
2	Richard	158	–	5
3	John	147	–	3
4	James	135	↑1	1
5	David	115	↓1	6
6	William	97	–	4
7	Ronald	83	↑1	9
8	Paul	72	↑7	19
9	Donald	70	↓2	11
10	Charles	65	↓1	7
11	Edward	56	↑5	18
12	Michael	56	↓1	10
13	Thomas	55	↓3	8
14	George	54	↓2	14
15	Roger	50	↑2	24
16	Raymond	49	↓3	22
17	Douglas	44	↓3	28
18	Peter	41	↑9	39
19	Gary	39	↑1	16
20	Bruce	38	↑1	51
21	Kenneth	38	↓3	15
22	Joseph	37	↑1	13
23	Francis	36	↓1	64
24	Wayne	36	↑5	41
25	Arthur	35	–	30
26	Larry	35	–	12
27	Norman	31	↑3	56
28	Lawrence	28	↓9	32
29	Gerald	27	↓5	23
30	Henry	27	↑15	31
31	Stephen	27	↓3	29
32	Alan	26	↑11	67
33	Philip	24	↑1	57
34	Bernard	23	↓1	92
35	Harold	23	↑9	27
36	Stanley	23	↑6	54
37	Walter	23	↓1	26
38	Howard	22	↑1	48
39	Albert	21	↓7	43
40	Daniel	21	↑7	25
41	Gordon	21	↑5	98
42	Ralph	21	↓2	40
43	Ernest	20	new	61
44	Roy	20	↑6	38
45	Dennis	19	↓7	20
46	Frank	15	↓5	21
47	Frederick	15	↓16	70
48	Reginald	15	new	>100
49	Rodney	15	new	>100
50	Allen	14	new	76

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