Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Missouri, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,117
2	Dorothy	1,366
3	Helen	1,013
4	Betty	1,009
5	Virginia	761
6	Ruth	671
7	Margaret	605
8	Mildred	580
9	Doris	432
10	Marjorie	422
11	Frances	414
12	Anna	407
13	Evelyn	320
14	Marie	313
15	Ruby	307
16	Martha	292
17	Wilma	286
18	Elizabeth	269
19	Alice	268
20	Norma	262
21	Hazel	256
22	Juanita	245
23	Thelma	244
24	Lois	231
25	Edna	225
25	Maxine	225
27	Lillian	213
27	Pauline	213
29	Bernice	211
30	Lucille	203
31	Jean	194
32	Louise	192
33	Irene	185
34	Gladys	183
35	Edith	182
35	Geraldine	182
37	Shirley	181
38	Wanda	179
39	Catherine	166
40	Ethel	164
41	Opal	154
42	Florence	148
42	Rose	148
44	June	144
45	Velma	143
46	Lorraine	138
47	Bonnie	136
48	Grace	134
49	Georgia	133
50	Audrey	130

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,671
2	William	1,633
3	James	1,533
4	John	1,331
5	Charles	1,062
6	George	727
7	Harold	531
8	Edward	495
9	Richard	492
10	Joseph	488
11	Donald	454
12	Paul	433
13	Kenneth	429
14	Raymond	397
15	Jack	383
16	Thomas	358
17	Ralph	320
18	Frank	305
19	Walter	304
20	Harry	297
21	Eugene	290
22	Roy	264
23	Clarence	261
24	Albert	249
24	Carl	249
26	Henry	246
27	Earl	244
28	Arthur	224
29	David	201
30	Lawrence	198
31	Howard	197
32	Billy	196
33	Joe	187
33	Louis	187
35	Fred	183
35	Marvin	183
37	Lloyd	179
37	Melvin	179
39	Elmer	163
40	Francis	162
41	Norman	160
42	Herbert	159
43	Leonard	156
44	Floyd	153
45	Vernon	152
46	Ray	147
47	Warren	146
48	Clifford	131
49	Clyde	129
50	Ernest	128