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Baby names in Vermont, 1940s

1940–1949 · 60,427 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Vermont across the 1940s, with 2,081 births in the decade. The state recorded 60,427 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Vermont in the 1940s

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
Armand5312×
Marcel3011×
Reginald148
Andre44
Claire138
Maurice137
Roland140
Pauline210

Top 25 in the 1940s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert2,081
#2Richard1,652
#3John1,596
#4Linda1,553
#5David1,492
#6James1,388
#7Mary1,355
#8Patricia1,200
#9William1,131
#10Sandra995
#11Nancy897
#12Michael892
#13Barbara876
#14Ronald821
#15Thomas789
#16Susan756
#17Carol754
#18Donald715
#19Gary685
#20Judith663
#21Paul647
#22Donna623
#23Charles620
#24George570
#25Raymond530

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