Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Arkansas, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,206
2	Dorothy	414
3	Ruby	411
4	Helen	384
5	Mildred	376
6	Ruth	326
7	Hazel	279
8	Margaret	273
9	Marie	237
9	Thelma	237
11	Martha	224
12	Virginia	217
13	Gladys	208
13	Pauline	208
15	Lucille	205
16	Frances	197
17	Juanita	189
17	Willie	189
19	Annie	184
20	Lois	181
21	Opal	179
22	Louise	174
23	Anna	172
24	Ethel	165
24	Evelyn	165
26	Edna	162
26	Elizabeth	162
28	Irene	161
29	Alice	147
30	Edith	144
31	Beatrice	140
32	Mattie	139
33	Wilma	129
34	Bernice	128
35	Lillie	126
36	Minnie	125
37	Lillian	123
38	Geneva	121
39	Bessie	120
39	Emma	120
39	Velma	120
42	Lorene	118
43	Jessie	113
44	Doris	112
44	Eva	112
46	Ida	109
47	Vivian	106
48	Vera	105
49	Bertha	104
49	Elsie	104

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,308
2	William	938
3	John	882
4	Robert	563
5	Charles	410
6	George	343
7	Willie	300
8	Thomas	277
9	Henry	227
10	Paul	206
11	Jack	202
12	Joe	191
13	Frank	184
14	Roy	171
15	Raymond	170
16	Edward	168
16	Joseph	168
18	Walter	165
19	Harold	164
20	Clarence	154
21	Fred	153
22	Earl	152
23	Carl	140
24	Albert	136
25	Eugene	129
26	Ralph	128
27	David	124
28	Richard	121
29	Arthur	117
30	Howard	116
31	Floyd	114
32	Warren	113
33	Clyde	111
34	Jessie	108
35	Ernest	101
36	Ray	100
37	Lee	99
38	Cecil	97
39	Jesse	93
39	Louis	93
41	Herman	88
41	Samuel	88
43	Charlie	84
44	Leroy	83
45	Earnest	82
46	Vernon	80
47	Leonard	79
48	Eddie	78
48	Lloyd	78
50	Chester	77