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Baby names in Vermont, 1930s

1930–1939 · 48,640 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Vermont across the 1930s, with 2,103 births in the decade. The state recorded 48,640 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Vermont in the 1930s

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
Marcel5218×
Reginald14414×
Cecile78
Armand52
Priscilla150
Maurice209
Fernand10
Jeannine68

Top 25 in the 1930s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert2,103
#2Richard1,483
#3John1,203
#4Mary1,124
#5William921
#6Barbara920
#7Donald903
#8Shirley851
#9James822
#9Patricia822
#11Betty625
#12Beverly617
#13David614
#14Joyce611
#15George590
#16Charles586
#17Paul582
#18Raymond555
#19Joan538
#20Nancy516
#21Elizabeth490
#22Edward489
#23Dorothy479
#24Ronald471
#25Jean446

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