Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Missouri, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,098
2	Betty	1,455
3	Dorothy	1,207
4	Helen	751
5	Virginia	665
6	Ruth	542
7	Margaret	508
8	Mildred	423
9	Doris	415
10	Norma	397
11	Anna	355
11	Shirley	355
13	Wilma	329
14	Frances	320
15	Ruby	298
16	Lois	292
17	Evelyn	288
18	Martha	279
19	Marjorie	276
20	Alice	270
21	Juanita	254
22	Jean	250
23	Marie	249
24	Patricia	245
25	Wanda	238
26	Elizabeth	237
27	Thelma	235
28	Rose	232
29	Barbara	198
30	Edna	197
31	Dolores	185
31	Gloria	185
33	Bonnie	183
34	Louise	182
35	Geraldine	173
36	Hazel	172
37	Pauline	164
38	June	156
38	Maxine	156
40	Gladys	150
41	Irene	149
41	Lucille	149
43	Audrey	148
44	Lillian	147
45	Ethel	143
45	Rosemary	143
47	Catherine	141
47	Velma	141
49	Opal	138
50	Georgia	134

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,879
2	James	1,601
3	William	1,535
4	John	1,370
5	Charles	1,051
6	Donald	653
7	Richard	638
8	George	630
9	Harold	542
10	Edward	448
11	Kenneth	441
12	Paul	419
13	Joseph	411
14	Jack	409
15	Raymond	400
16	Thomas	354
17	Billy	350
18	Carl	324
19	Eugene	301
20	Frank	295
21	Ralph	293
22	Walter	279
23	Roy	250
24	Clarence	244
25	Harry	237
26	Earl	224
27	Henry	221
28	Albert	218
29	Howard	214
30	David	206
30	Joe	206
32	Arthur	201
33	Norman	196
34	Marvin	191
35	Bill	179
36	Lawrence	174
37	Floyd	173
38	Melvin	170
39	Lloyd	156
40	Gerald	151
40	Leonard	151
40	Louis	151
43	Francis	150
44	Fred	140
44	Russell	140
46	Elmer	139
47	Vernon	136
48	Leo	135
49	Virgil	129
50	Herbert	127