Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,913
2	Dorothy	650
3	Margaret	481
4	Anna	445
5	Ruth	433
6	Ruby	412
6	Virginia	412
8	Helen	407
9	Elizabeth	366
10	Edna	360
11	Mildred	355
12	Martha	339
13	Hazel	338
14	Thelma	312
15	Edith	287
16	Gladys	284
17	Frances	270
18	Lucille	259
19	Marie	254
20	Evelyn	228
21	Ethel	216
22	Lillian	215
23	Louise	196
23	Pauline	196
25	Bessie	183
26	Myrtle	182
27	Sarah	179
28	Opal	177
29	Emma	173
29	Irene	173
31	Mabel	167
32	Clara	164
33	Geneva	159
34	Alma	158
35	Catherine	155
36	Grace	154
37	Alice	151
38	Nellie	149
39	Nancy	148
40	Eva	144
41	Bertha	141
42	Lucy	132
43	Katherine	131
44	Beulah	128
45	Beatrice	124
45	Mattie	124
47	Ida	121
48	Annie	120
48	Jessie	120
48	Laura	120

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,578
2	William	1,350
3	John	1,015
4	Robert	741
5	Charles	702
6	George	478
7	Thomas	342
8	Joseph	314
9	Edward	294
10	Raymond	263
11	Paul	260
12	Earl	245
13	Henry	236
14	Roy	225
15	Carl	215
16	Frank	204
17	Walter	198
18	Richard	186
19	Clarence	182
20	Joe	164
21	Harold	159
22	Woodrow	156
23	Albert	155
24	Arthur	154
25	Ernest	151
26	Chester	141
27	Willie	138
28	Harry	134
29	Howard	129
30	Cecil	128
30	Elmer	128
30	Fred	128
33	Ralph	125
34	Jesse	123
35	Lawrence	119
35	Ray	119
37	Jack	117
38	David	116
39	Clyde	113
40	Herman	112
41	Herbert	111
42	Eugene	110
43	Kenneth	109
44	Willard	107
45	Samuel	105
46	Charlie	103
46	Everett	103
48	Stanley	99
49	Edgar	96
50	Russell	95