Name Legacy

Baby names in Vermont, 1950s

1950–1959 · 75,188 recorded births

Michael was the most common name given in Vermont across the 1950s, with 2,224 births in the decade. The state recorded 75,188 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Vermont in the 1950s

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
Marcel4313×
Armand21
Denis55
Claire96
Pierre20
Pauline114
Roland95
Peter656

Top 25 in the 1950s

RankNameBirths
#1Michael2,224
#2David2,211
#3Robert1,850
#4John1,640
#5James1,556
#6Mary1,483
#7Richard1,448
#8Susan1,442
#9Linda1,362
#10William1,112
#11Deborah1,100
#12Gary1,099
#13Thomas1,026
#14Patricia954
#15Mark949
#16Stephen834
#17Steven810
#18Nancy796
#19Donna784
#20Paul761
#21Debra723
#22Diane720
#23Timothy679
#24Karen662
#25Peter656

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