Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,165
2	Betty	962
3	Dorothy	829
4	Anna	542
5	Helen	513
6	Virginia	475
7	Margaret	459
8	Mildred	439
9	Ruth	429
10	Ruby	400
11	Martha	371
12	Doris	356
13	Juanita	325
14	Elizabeth	322
15	Thelma	264
16	Frances	257
17	Evelyn	250
18	Pauline	247
19	Jean	246
20	Edna	241
21	Geneva	228
22	Gladys	227
23	Lois	223
24	Norma	217
25	Edith	201
26	Hazel	200
26	Wanda	200
28	Marie	192
29	Wilma	188
30	Louise	184
31	Emma	175
32	Barbara	174
33	Nancy	172
34	Irene	164
35	Lillian	158
36	Georgia	153
37	Opal	151
38	Alma	149
39	Alice	148
39	Ethel	148
41	Marjorie	147
42	Lucille	146
42	Sarah	146
44	Joyce	143
45	Bessie	139
46	Margie	137
47	Eva	133
48	Christine	130
49	Myrtle	121
50	Patricia	118

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,931
2	William	1,617
3	Charles	1,226
4	Robert	1,164
5	John	1,103
6	George	585
7	Paul	407
8	Thomas	390
9	Joseph	363
10	Harold	358
11	Billy	323
12	Jack	322
13	Edward	314
14	Donald	298
15	Richard	292
16	Kenneth	287
17	Raymond	286
18	Herbert	284
19	Roy	280
20	Eugene	278
21	Earl	274
22	Joe	252
23	Carl	249
23	Walter	249
25	Henry	232
26	Ralph	210
27	Ray	200
28	David	172
29	Albert	170
30	Frank	168
31	Clarence	165
32	Fred	158
33	Howard	145
34	Elmer	140
35	Willie	139
36	Cecil	137
37	Ernest	136
38	Harry	134
39	Lawrence	133
40	Marvin	128
41	Clyde	127
42	Bobby	124
43	Arthur	120
43	Junior	120
45	Alfred	117
46	Chester	116
47	Louis	110
48	Gene	109
49	Jesse	103
50	Curtis	101