What is the most popular baby name in Vermont?

Even on a thin SSA book, Vermont's cumulative #1 boy is Robert (11,728 births) and #1 girl is Mary (7,663 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Vermont over the decades?

Vermont is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from John/Mary (1910s) to Oliver/Charlotte (2020s).

How many babies are named in Vermont?

Our data covers 286,480 name registrations in Vermont for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (QUIET volume stamp · #49 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Vermont

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Vermont, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Robert
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 286,480
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Vermont's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 286,480 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Vermont has recorded 286,480 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 11,728 births, while Mary tops the girls with 7,663. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
286,480 births recorded

Where Vermont sits by recorded name volume

Vermont: 576,192 SSA name registrations (QUIET · rank 49/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Vermont vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

576,192 49th of 51 higher than 2 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Vermont naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 7,663 cumulative SSA births in Vermont ≠ Charlotte #1 of 103 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 11,728 cumulative SSA births in Vermont ≠ Oliver #1 of 121 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Oliver
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Robert
all-time boys #1, 2025 #47

Both sexes in Vermont already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a thin registry book shows for Vermont

Vermont sits in the lightest third of SSA name-state registration totals (576,192 · QUIET · #49/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (11,728 boy births) and Mary (7,663 girl births) across 286,480 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 178,601 vs 107,879 for girls.

In Vermont, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a thin state file

Decade-by-decade data for Vermont extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Oliver for boys and Charlotte for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Charlotte

35
Evelyn

27
Eleanor

26
Sophia

22
Nora

22
Violet

18
Ava

17
Harper

16
Aurora

16
Amelia

16

What this shows Charlotte leads 2025 girls in Vermont; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Oliver

35
Theodore

34
Henry

27
Cooper

26
Hudson

24
Jack

24
Weston

21
James

21
Liam

20
Bennett

20

What this shows Oliver leads 2025 boys in Vermont; Robert remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

7,663
Elizabeth

4,497
Patricia

3,894
Barbara

3,869
Linda

3,504
Susan

3,372
Jennifer

3,200
Margaret

2,861
Sarah

2,811
Nancy

2,711

What this shows Mary leads Vermont girls with 7,663 recorded births.

Robert

11,728
John

10,152
Michael

9,133
David

8,532
James

8,416
Richard

7,738
William

7,583
Thomas

4,896
Christopher

4,807
Joseph

4,470

What this shows Robert leads Vermont boys with 11,728 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Vermont for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	John	815	Mary	1,038
1920s	Robert	1,710	Mary	1,291
1930s	Robert	2,103	Mary	1,124
1940s	Robert	2,081	Linda	1,553
1950s	Michael	2,224	Mary	1,483
1960s	Michael	1,986	Lisa	1,328
1970s	Jason	1,324	Jennifer	1,432
1980s	Christopher	1,349	Jessica	1,185
1990s	Joshua	748	Emily	693
2000s	Jacob	574	Emma	541
2010s	Liam	354	Olivia	314
2020s	Oliver	213	Charlotte	169

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	11,728
2	John	10,152
3	Michael	9,133
4	David	8,532
5	James	8,416
6	Richard	7,738
7	William	7,583
8	Thomas	4,896
9	Christopher	4,807
10	Joseph	4,470
11	Charles	4,320
12	Paul	4,147
13	Donald	3,953
14	Matthew	3,852
15	Daniel	3,813
16	George	3,427
17	Edward	3,270
18	Raymond	3,040
19	Mark	3,039
20	Timothy	3,024
21	Brian	3,004
22	Andrew	2,903
23	Peter	2,736
24	Kenneth	2,718
25	Joshua	2,668
26	Jeffrey	2,572
27	Ronald	2,569
28	Stephen	2,551
29	Scott	2,537
30	Jason	2,479
31	Gary	2,443
32	Steven	2,442
33	Kevin	2,431
34	Ryan	2,344
35	Benjamin	2,123
36	Eric	2,114
37	Nicholas	2,011
38	Jacob	1,945
39	Francis	1,924
40	Patrick	1,853
41	Douglas	1,849
42	Roger	1,819
43	Justin	1,782
44	Tyler	1,728
45	Henry	1,726
46	Harold	1,642
47	Arthur	1,617
48	Anthony	1,590
49	Lawrence	1,589
50	Kyle	1,552

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	7,663
2	Elizabeth	4,497
3	Patricia	3,894
4	Barbara	3,869
5	Linda	3,504
6	Susan	3,372
7	Jennifer	3,200
8	Margaret	2,861
9	Sarah	2,811
10	Nancy	2,711
11	Jessica	2,421
12	Dorothy	2,381
13	Lisa	2,242
14	Ruth	2,199
15	Emily	2,186
16	Sandra	2,181
17	Shirley	2,177
18	Helen	2,127
19	Karen	2,046
20	Donna	2,005
21	Carol	1,925
22	Kathleen	1,904
23	Rebecca	1,886
24	Deborah	1,816
25	Heather	1,813
26	Amanda	1,738
27	Melissa	1,733
28	Amy	1,720
29	Katherine	1,682
30	Laura	1,664
31	Betty	1,645
32	Jean	1,604
33	Anna	1,599
34	Ashley	1,596
35	Joyce	1,595
36	Michelle	1,587
37	Diane	1,528
38	Alice	1,485
39	Emma	1,464
40	Theresa	1,454
41	Catherine	1,454
42	Beverly	1,431
43	Pamela	1,430
44	Marie	1,429
45	Marion	1,420
46	Kimberly	1,414
47	Evelyn	1,393
48	Joan	1,388
49	Doris	1,383
50	Nicole	1,352

Read with Vermont

Nearest ABS peers for a thin-registry state (Vermont · QUIET · TREND-LED).

QUIET TREND-LED

Delaware · QUIET

683,868 SSA registrations (near-scale with Vermont; ABS Δ 107,676). Leader lane may differ from Vermont's TREND-LED.

Alaska · QUIET

465,495 SSA registrations (near-scale with Vermont; ABS Δ 110,697). Leader lane may differ from Vermont's TREND-LED.

Wyoming · QUIET

451,965 SSA registrations (near-scale with Vermont; ABS Δ 124,227). Leader lane may differ from Vermont's TREND-LED.

Montana · QUIET

1,019,300 SSA registrations (1.8× Vermont's registry; ABS Δ 443,108). Leader lane may differ from Vermont's TREND-LED.

New Mexico (volume-lane contrast)

Near Vermont on SSA registration volume yet stamps SPARSE vs QUIET.

Why names rise and fall

Vermont stamps QUIET · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - thin-registry states: how small SSA state files are compared without inventing suppressed names.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.