Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Missouri, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,022
2	Dorothy	1,300
3	Helen	1,054
4	Ruth	791
5	Virginia	763
6	Mildred	695
7	Margaret	622
8	Frances	438
9	Betty	424
10	Marie	399
11	Anna	369
12	Thelma	333
13	Ruby	323
14	Marjorie	314
15	Evelyn	302
16	Doris	301
17	Hazel	288
18	Wilma	274
19	Edna	266
20	Lucille	263
21	Martha	254
22	Elizabeth	253
23	Gladys	248
24	Alice	246
25	Juanita	234
26	Louise	231
27	Pauline	220
28	Irene	215
29	Edith	214
30	Lillian	213
31	Bernice	207
31	Ethel	207
33	Florence	205
34	Geraldine	202
35	Maxine	201
36	Opal	199
37	Norma	179
38	Velma	169
39	Clara	168
40	Catherine	166
41	Lois	165
42	June	159
43	Lorraine	150
44	Jean	149
45	Rose	147
46	Kathryn	146
47	Esther	145
48	Katherine	144
49	Vera	140
50	Eleanor	139

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,453
2	John	1,361
3	James	1,273
4	Robert	1,264
5	Charles	1,036
6	George	660
7	Harold	527
8	Joseph	474
9	Paul	441
10	Edward	434
11	Raymond	411
12	Richard	382
13	Frank	370
14	Jack	350
15	Thomas	335
16	Donald	325
17	Walter	322
18	Kenneth	318
19	Ralph	293
20	Roy	286
21	Carl	281
22	Eugene	280
23	Arthur	266
24	Harry	259
25	Clarence	246
26	Earl	240
26	Henry	240
28	Warren	231
29	Howard	227
30	Albert	214
31	Elmer	200
32	Fred	193
33	Leonard	184
34	Russell	182
35	Marvin	181
36	David	177
36	Francis	177
36	Herbert	177
39	Lloyd	176
40	Lawrence	173
41	Melvin	171
42	Joe	164
43	Louis	159
44	Floyd	156
45	Norman	153
46	Vernon	145
47	Ray	135
48	Clifford	133
48	Lester	133
50	Ernest	124