Popular baby names in Vermont, 1976

The most popular baby names in Vermont in 1976 were Jennifer for girls (135 babies) and Jason for boys (164). Jason ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 4,795 babies born in Vermont in 1976 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Vermont in 1976

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

Girls

Sarah: 81 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Megan: 24 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Heidi: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Emily: 27 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Katherine: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jessica: 85 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Sara: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Jaime: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Carrie: 30 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Heather: 83 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Seth: 24 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Travis: 41 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Jamie: 24 babies, 3× the national rate
Peter: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Nathan: 38 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joshua: 71 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Scott: 64 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Benjamin: 45 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Shane: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Justin: 40 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Vermont, 1976

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1975	US rank
1	Jennifer	135	–	1
2	Jessica	85	↑2	8
3	Heather	83	–	4
4	Sarah	81	↑1	15
5	Amy	79	↓3	2
6	Melissa	53	↑2	3
7	Rebecca	44	–	12
8	Amanda	42	↑12	10
9	Angela	42	↑1	5
10	Lisa	40	↓1	9
11	Elizabeth	39	↑6	16
12	Michelle	38	↓6	6
13	Kimberly	35	↑3	7
14	Christina	34	↑1	14
15	Sara	33	↑7	27
16	Carrie	30	↑10	28
17	Jaime	30	new	29
18	Julie	30	↑3	21
19	Nicole	30	↓6	13
20	Emily	27	↑3	50
21	Erin	26	↓9	24
22	Shannon	26	↑8	17
23	Danielle	25	new	33
24	Katherine	24	↑4	57
25	Megan	24	new	62
26	Karen	23	↓8	31
27	Kelly	23	↓16	19
28	Mary	23	↑1	22
29	Laura	22	new	20
30	Stephanie	22	↑7	11
31	April	21	↑4	30
32	Tara	21	↓13	42
33	Heidi	20	↓9	70
34	Jamie	20	new	18
35	Dawn	18	↓1	35
36	Holly	18	new	56
37	Christine	17	↓4	26
38	Crystal	17	↓11	36
39	Tonya	17	↑8	58
40	Tracy	15	↓2	37
41	Michele	14	new	63
42	Amber	13	new	49
43	Andrea	13	↑5	25
44	Kathryn	12	new	88
45	Tina	12	↓20	48
46	Cynthia	11	new	44
47	Jill	11	new	52
48	Rachel	11	↓2	23
49	Samantha	11	↓6	85
50	Tanya	11	↓18	61

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1975	US rank
1	Jason	164	–	2
2	Michael	121	–	1
3	Christopher	113	–	3
4	Matthew	102	–	9
5	John	84	↑2	6
6	David	81	↓1	4
7	Eric	74	↑6	13
8	Joshua	71	↑9	18
9	Scott	64	↓3	24
10	James	60	↓1	5
11	Robert	60	↓1	7
12	Brian	56	↓1	8
13	Jeremy	53	↓1	14
14	Daniel	49	↓6	10
15	Timothy	46	–	21
16	Benjamin	45	↑17	32
17	Aaron	42	↑5	30
18	Travis	41	new	46
19	Jeffrey	40	↓5	17
20	Justin	40	↓2	33
21	Shawn	40	↓2	34
22	Adam	39	↑1	36
23	Joseph	39	↑4	12
24	Mark	39	↑11	25
25	Nathan	38	↑3	39
26	Kevin	37	↓10	15
27	Jonathan	35	↓1	31
28	Chad	34	↓8	29
29	Richard	34	↓5	19
30	Ryan	34	↓1	16
31	Steven	34	↓1	20
32	William	34	↓1	11
33	Thomas	32	↓12	23
34	Andrew	28	↓9	27
35	Gregory	25	↑11	35
36	Paul	25	↑1	28
37	Peter	25	↑1	54
38	Stephen	25	↑1	37
39	Jamie	24	↓5	62
40	Seth	24	↑1	>100
41	Todd	23	↓9	50
42	Sean	22	new	42
43	Shane	21	–	57
44	Jesse	19	new	55
45	Anthony	18	↑2	22
46	Charles	16	↓2	26
47	Douglas	16	↓5	56
48	Jacob	16	–	63
49	Keith	16	↓9	48
50	Raymond	16	–	65

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