Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,442
2	Dorothy	957
3	Virginia	617
4	Margaret	588
5	Anna	573
6	Ruth	548
7	Helen	547
8	Mildred	472
9	Ruby	455
10	Martha	386
11	Elizabeth	374
12	Gladys	359
13	Edna	341
14	Hazel	340
15	Frances	327
16	Thelma	312
17	Edith	300
18	Evelyn	287
19	Juanita	281
20	Marie	280
21	Geneva	271
22	Pauline	265
23	Betty	263
24	Louise	254
25	Lillian	249
26	Irene	243
27	Lucille	228
28	Opal	214
29	Ethel	207
30	Sarah	194
31	Myrtle	193
32	Nancy	190
33	Clara	186
33	Elsie	186
35	Emma	185
36	Marjorie	183
37	Doris	177
38	Christine	176
39	Alice	167
40	Katherine	162
41	Beulah	161
42	Bertha	154
42	Bessie	154
44	Eva	153
45	Margie	152
46	Wilma	148
47	Georgia	147
48	Beatrice	140
48	Ella	140
48	Nellie	140

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,071
2	William	1,626
3	John	1,217
4	Charles	1,109
5	Robert	1,020
6	George	636
7	Thomas	417
8	Paul	400
9	Joseph	388
10	Edward	358
11	Harold	291
12	Raymond	290
13	Earl	280
14	Henry	279
15	Roy	276
16	Carl	257
17	Walter	250
18	Frank	241
19	Clarence	228
20	Kenneth	221
21	Richard	214
22	Jack	213
23	Elmer	201
24	Joe	199
25	Arthur	198
26	Eugene	178
27	Willie	177
28	Ralph	175
29	Harry	173
30	Albert	171
31	Howard	159
32	Cecil	157
32	Chester	157
34	David	151
35	Ray	147
36	Fred	143
37	Clyde	141
38	Herbert	140
39	Ernest	129
39	Russell	129
41	Lawrence	126
42	Jesse	125
43	Samuel	124
44	Louis	116
45	Virgil	115
46	Leonard	111
47	Marvin	110
48	Donald	107
48	Everett	107
50	Oscar	101