Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,351
2	Dorothy	859
3	Betty	740
4	Helen	599
5	Anna	567
6	Virginia	537
7	Ruth	520
8	Margaret	478
9	Mildred	448
10	Ruby	442
11	Martha	436
12	Juanita	380
13	Elizabeth	327
14	Doris	325
15	Frances	295
16	Edna	278
17	Thelma	277
18	Hazel	267
18	Pauline	267
20	Gladys	266
21	Geneva	243
22	Evelyn	239
23	Edith	231
24	Marie	229
25	Jean	227
26	Wilma	224
27	Louise	221
28	Alice	204
29	Wanda	202
30	Emma	194
31	Irene	193
32	Lillian	187
33	Nancy	182
34	Lois	177
34	Sarah	177
36	Norma	167
37	Lucille	162
38	Elsie	160
39	Ethel	158
39	Opal	158
41	Margie	157
42	Christine	152
43	Alma	149
44	Nellie	147
45	Marjorie	146
46	Eva	144
47	Clara	136
47	Myrtle	136
49	Bessie	130
50	Georgia	129

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,082
2	William	1,671
3	Charles	1,228
4	John	1,177
5	Robert	1,139
6	George	592
7	Paul	472
8	Thomas	407
9	Joseph	351
10	Harold	347
11	Edward	333
12	Donald	318
13	Jack	317
14	Kenneth	295
15	Carl	294
16	Raymond	289
17	Roy	286
18	Eugene	284
19	Richard	265
20	Earl	251
21	Henry	238
22	Billy	235
23	Walter	234
24	Ralph	226
25	Joe	225
26	Clarence	209
27	Frank	194
28	Albert	181
29	David	176
29	Howard	176
31	Ray	173
32	Elmer	157
33	Fred	152
34	Arthur	148
35	Clyde	145
36	Harry	143
37	Marvin	142
38	Cecil	140
39	Willie	136
40	Chester	133
41	Ernest	132
42	Herbert	130
43	Louis	129
44	Herman	122
44	Jesse	122
46	Samuel	118
47	Floyd	116
48	Bill	107
49	Russell	105
50	Clifford	100