Name Legacy

Baby names in Vermont, 1910s

1910–1919 · 33,426 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Vermont across the 1910s, with 1,038 births in the decade. The state recorded 33,426 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Vermont in the 1910s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Elwin4417×
Reginald5910×
Wendell65
Arlene125
Cecile63
Carroll63
Madeline167
Gordon160

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary1,038
#2John815
#3Robert792
#4Helen734
#5Dorothy699
#6Ruth665
#7William556
#8George555
#9Margaret512
#10Marion484
#11Charles470
#11Elizabeth470
#13Doris457
#14Edward415
#15Alice408
#16Raymond406
#17Evelyn397
#18James395
#19Joseph379
#20Richard371
#21Harold366
#22Francis355
#23Florence343
#24Kenneth330
#25Mildred329

Other decades in Vermont

All Vermont names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org