Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Missouri, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	834
2	Helen	523
3	Dorothy	464
4	Ruth	392
5	Mildred	345
6	Margaret	316
7	Virginia	263
8	Marie	256
9	Anna	210
10	Frances	207
11	Thelma	191
12	Ruby	188
13	Edna	187
14	Elizabeth	169
14	Hazel	169
16	Lucille	163
17	Gladys	159
18	Grace	154
19	Irene	152
20	Opal	148
21	Florence	144
22	Ethel	139
23	Alice	132
24	Edith	131
25	Martha	125
26	Esther	120
26	Evelyn	120
26	Louise	120
29	Clara	117
30	Lillian	115
31	Catherine	112
32	Mabel	109
33	Gertrude	105
34	Bernice	103
34	Rose	103
36	Emma	101
37	Myrtle	99
38	Pauline	97
39	Bertha	94
40	Eva	93
41	Wilma	90
42	Elsie	89
42	Josephine	89
44	Alma	88
45	Bessie	87
46	Nellie	86
47	Beulah	85
48	Ida	83
49	Agnes	82
50	Viola	79

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	617
2	John	606
3	James	484
4	Charles	377
5	Robert	351
6	George	310
7	Joseph	241
8	Edward	236
9	Frank	204
10	Harold	203
11	Raymond	179
12	Paul	164
13	Walter	154
14	Clarence	146
14	Henry	146
14	Thomas	146
17	Ralph	143
18	Albert	142
19	Carl	140
19	Harry	140
21	Richard	127
21	Roy	127
23	Earl	121
24	Lawrence	118
25	Arthur	105
26	Jack	99
27	Howard	97
28	Elmer	96
28	Herbert	96
28	Louis	96
31	Eugene	89
32	Fred	85
33	Kenneth	82
34	Donald	76
35	Woodrow	75
36	Clyde	69
37	Joe	68
38	Ernest	67
38	Leonard	67
40	Herman	65
41	Russell	63
42	Cecil	62
43	Alfred	61
43	David	61
43	Francis	61
46	Floyd	56
47	Chester	55
48	Leo	54
49	Norman	52
50	Lester	51