Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Missouri, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,882
2	Dorothy	1,062
3	Helen	1,012
4	Ruth	725
5	Virginia	653
6	Mildred	625
7	Margaret	602
8	Frances	442
9	Marie	383
10	Ruby	342
11	Anna	339
12	Edna	301
12	Hazel	301
14	Evelyn	295
15	Elizabeth	294
16	Thelma	293
17	Martha	281
18	Lucille	270
19	Wilma	256
20	Alice	240
21	Pauline	238
22	Gladys	237
23	Irene	224
24	Bernice	221
25	Marjorie	219
26	Edith	215
27	Louise	211
28	Opal	201
29	Ethel	196
30	Lillian	194
31	Clara	193
32	Florence	189
32	Grace	189
34	Lois	188
35	Doris	183
36	Juanita	180
37	Catherine	166
38	Josephine	161
39	Esther	159
40	Betty	156
40	Rose	156
42	Viola	149
43	Georgia	147
44	Nellie	146
45	Gertrude	143
45	Maxine	143
47	Alma	142
48	Bertha	141
49	Jean	140
50	Mabel	139

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,269
2	William	1,225
3	James	1,071
4	Robert	899
5	Charles	844
6	George	627
7	Joseph	425
8	Paul	417
9	Harold	392
10	Edward	390
11	Raymond	335
12	Walter	328
13	Richard	324
14	Thomas	315
15	Frank	299
16	Harry	296
17	Roy	272
18	Henry	269
19	Carl	268
19	Ralph	268
21	Earl	255
22	Kenneth	253
23	Jack	237
24	Albert	232
25	Arthur	231
26	Clarence	226
26	Donald	226
28	Lawrence	201
29	Howard	199
30	Eugene	198
31	Elmer	191
32	Louis	172
33	Fred	171
34	Floyd	161
35	Melvin	157
36	Leonard	155
37	Lloyd	154
38	Joe	152
39	Francis	150
40	Norman	146
40	Russell	146
42	Herbert	145
43	David	142
44	Clifford	134
45	Ernest	132
46	Clyde	126
46	Virgil	126
48	Lester	125
49	Vernon	121
50	Marvin	119