Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Vermont, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	123
2	Patricia	114
3	Barbara	107
4	Sandra	85
5	Shirley	80
6	Nancy	74
7	Judith	70
8	Joyce	63
9	Carol	56
10	Elizabeth	51
10	Joan	51
12	Linda	47
13	Janice	43
14	Jean	41
15	Margaret	40
16	Beverly	39
17	Marilyn	36
18	Dorothy	32
18	Janet	32
20	Betty	30
20	Jane	30
20	Ruth	30
23	Martha	29
24	Elaine	27
24	Marie	27
26	Ann	26
26	Gloria	26
26	Lorraine	26
29	Theresa	25
30	Susan	23
31	Carolyn	22
31	Donna	22
31	Virginia	22
34	Helen	21
34	Pauline	21
34	Sally	21
37	Alice	20
37	Joanne	20
37	Phyllis	20
37	Sylvia	20
41	Claire	19
41	Doris	19
41	Kathleen	19
44	Gail	18
44	Jacqueline	18
44	Louise	18
44	Marion	18
44	Marjorie	18
44	Norma	18
50	Anne	17

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Richard	186
2	Robert	180
3	John	147
4	David	108
5	James	105
6	William	103
7	Ronald	70
8	Donald	62
9	Charles	56
10	Kenneth	54
11	Paul	51
12	Roger	45
12	Thomas	45
14	Joseph	44
15	George	43
16	Edward	41
17	Francis	39
18	Raymond	38
18	Wayne	38
20	Arthur	33
21	Michael	32
21	Peter	32
23	Harold	31
24	Albert	27
25	Larry	26
26	Gary	24
26	Norman	24
26	Ralph	24
26	Stephen	24
30	Bruce	23
30	Eugene	23
32	Frank	22
32	Stanley	22
34	Henry	21
35	Gerald	19
36	Douglas	18
36	Philip	18
38	Bernard	17
38	Lawrence	17
38	Louis	17
38	Reginald	17
38	Roland	17
43	Alan	16
43	Daniel	16
43	Gordon	16
43	Leo	16
43	Rodney	16
48	Frederick	15
48	Patrick	15
50	Russell	14