Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,339
2	Dorothy	873
3	Margaret	591
4	Helen	564
5	Virginia	541
6	Ruth	536
7	Mildred	509
8	Anna	506
9	Ruby	464
10	Elizabeth	404
11	Martha	401
12	Edna	364
13	Thelma	355
14	Hazel	337
15	Marie	320
16	Edith	309
16	Frances	309
18	Gladys	308
19	Evelyn	274
20	Lillian	267
21	Pauline	265
22	Geneva	258
23	Ethel	249
23	Irene	249
25	Lucille	245
26	Louise	230
27	Juanita	226
28	Emma	224
29	Opal	222
30	Myrtle	197
31	Alma	188
32	Bessie	181
33	Catherine	178
34	Eva	171
35	Sarah	168
36	Clara	166
37	Nellie	163
38	Beulah	162
39	Grace	160
40	Georgia	159
41	Betty	158
41	Mabel	158
43	Nancy	156
44	Alice	154
45	Elsie	145
46	Lillie	143
47	Bertha	139
47	Christine	139
49	Beatrice	138
49	Katherine	138

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,158
2	William	1,662
3	John	1,138
4	Charles	958
5	Robert	957
6	George	614
7	Joseph	430
8	Edward	390
9	Thomas	376
10	Paul	331
11	Raymond	316
12	Harold	281
13	Roy	266
14	Earl	263
15	Frank	257
16	Henry	254
17	Walter	243
18	Carl	235
19	Clarence	223
20	Richard	217
21	Harry	198
22	Elmer	185
22	Ralph	185
24	Howard	183
25	Ernest	181
26	Arthur	177
27	Chester	172
27	Eugene	172
27	Joe	172
30	Albert	162
31	Jack	159
32	Fred	157
33	Willie	156
34	Cecil	153
35	Kenneth	152
36	Jesse	144
37	Edwin	137
37	Herbert	137
37	Warren	137
40	David	136
41	Ray	134
42	Clyde	130
43	Russell	125
44	Marvin	122
45	Lawrence	119
45	Virgil	119
47	Leonard	118
48	Homer	115
49	Samuel	109
50	Luther	104