Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Missouri, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,872
2	Betty	1,744
3	Dorothy	946
4	Shirley	584
5	Helen	558
6	Virginia	496
7	Doris	483
8	Norma	452
9	Margaret	424
9	Ruth	424
11	Patricia	402
12	Barbara	341
13	Anna	310
14	Mildred	309
15	Wilma	285
16	Wanda	270
17	Dolores	269
18	Evelyn	258
18	Lois	258
20	Jean	247
21	Joan	238
22	Frances	237
23	Alice	235
23	Ruby	235
25	Marjorie	231
26	Martha	226
27	Rose	217
28	Elizabeth	191
29	Peggy	190
30	Bonnie	176
31	Juanita	175
31	Marie	175
33	Thelma	170
34	Geraldine	164
35	Joyce	150
36	Marilyn	149
37	Nancy	146
38	June	143
39	Louise	141
39	Rosemary	141
41	Maxine	138
42	Gloria	137
43	Delores	130
44	Catherine	128
44	Edna	128
46	Pauline	127
47	Gladys	125
48	Beverly	121
49	Audrey	120
49	Phyllis	120

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,752
2	James	1,427
3	William	1,307
4	John	1,179
5	Charles	1,000
6	Donald	959
7	Richard	690
8	George	528
9	Billy	496
10	Harold	461
11	Kenneth	411
12	Jack	409
13	Edward	405
14	Raymond	379
15	Joseph	377
16	Thomas	360
17	Paul	353
18	Eugene	322
19	David	283
20	Bobby	252
20	Ralph	252
22	Frank	240
23	Herbert	236
24	Carl	230
25	Roy	220
26	Walter	213
27	Albert	201
27	Harry	201
29	Clarence	195
30	Earl	192
30	Joe	192
32	Howard	176
33	Gerald	173
34	Melvin	169
35	Henry	168
36	Norman	165
37	Arthur	163
38	Bill	162
39	Floyd	155
40	Fred	154
41	Marvin	153
42	Lawrence	148
43	Louis	147
44	Bob	141
45	Francis	129
46	Leonard	128
47	Junior	126
48	Gene	123
49	Leroy	121
50	Lloyd	120