Popular baby names in Vermont, 1946

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1946 were Patricia for girls (158 babies) and Robert for boys (240). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,498 babies born in Vermont in 1946 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1946

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: 27 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Theresa: 27 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lorraine: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Irene: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sheila: 24 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sylvia: 20 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Charlene: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Donna: 93 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Gail: 28 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Sally: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 19 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Bernard: 29 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Brian: 24 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Peter: 54 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Francis: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Gordon: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Norman: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Bruce: 44 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Raymond: 57 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Alan: 32 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1946

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	Patricia	158	↑3	3
2	Linda	147	↓1	2
3	Mary	132	↓1	1
4	Sandra	119	↑2	6
5	Nancy	100	–	7
6	Donna	93	↑3	13
7	Susan	91	↑3	8
8	Carol	89	↓5	5
9	Barbara	81	↓1	4
10	Judith	80	↓3	10
11	Sharon	63	↑4	9
12	Diane	53	↑2	19
13	Margaret	45	↑6	17
14	Joan	42	↑3	28
15	Cheryl	40	↑8	27
16	Joyce	38	↑18	20
17	Bonnie	37	↑9	33
18	Jane	37	↑3	35
19	Kathleen	37	↑16	16
20	Betty	36	↓9	14
21	Elizabeth	36	↓3	25
22	Jean	35	↓2	37
23	Judy	35	↓1	11
24	Janet	34	↑4	21
25	Shirley	31	↓12	18
26	Beverly	30	↑4	30
27	Virginia	30	↑16	31
28	Carolyn	29	↓12	12
29	Janice	29	↑18	22
30	Gail	28	new	49
31	Pauline	27	↑8	>100
32	Theresa	27	↑13	96
33	Gloria	26	↓21	26
34	Ann	25	↓1	40
35	Brenda	25	↓4	24
36	Ruth	25	↑8	38
37	Suzanne	25	new	52
38	Diana	24	↑11	42
39	Lorraine	24	new	93
40	Pamela	24	↓8	34
41	Sheila	24	↑1	70
42	Marilyn	23	↓5	29
43	Helen	22	new	36
44	Sally	22	new	67
45	Cynthia	21	new	46
46	Dorothy	21	↓22	23
47	Elaine	21	↓20	47
48	Joanne	21	new	57
49	Martha	20	↓24	32
50	Sylvia	20	new	82

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	Robert	240	–	2
2	Richard	209	↑2	5
3	James	179	–	1
4	John	165	↓2	3
5	David	151	–	6
6	William	128	–	4
7	Michael	96	–	7
8	Thomas	96	↑3	8
9	Ronald	93	↑4	10
10	Gary	90	↓1	12
11	Charles	69	↓1	9
12	Donald	67	–	13
13	Paul	65	↓5	18
14	Edward	59	↑3	19
15	George	58	↓1	16
16	Raymond	57	↓1	25
17	Peter	54	↑1	38
18	Roger	54	↓2	23
19	Kenneth	46	↑1	15
20	Larry	45	↑2	11
21	Bruce	44	↑2	32
22	Joseph	42	↓3	14
23	Stephen	37	↑2	24
24	Douglas	35	–	34
25	Wayne	35	↑6	29
26	Alan	32	↑11	49
27	Gerald	32	↑2	27
28	Dennis	30	↓2	17
29	Bernard	29	↑6	>100
30	Francis	28	↑3	80
31	Daniel	27	↓4	21
32	Albert	26	↑8	52
33	Lawrence	26	↓3	31
34	Brian	24	↑16	>100
35	Arthur	23	↓3	36
36	Norman	23	↑3	76
37	Gregory	22	new	56
38	Frederick	21	new	75
39	Harold	21	↓11	33
40	Terry	21	new	26
41	Philip	20	↓20	61
42	Steven	20	↓8	28
43	Frank	19	–	22
44	Maurice	19	–	>100
45	Ernest	17	↓3	71
46	Henry	16	new	41
47	Walter	16	↓11	30
48	Gordon	15	new	>100
49	Ralph	15	↓4	48
50	Allen	14	new	74

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