Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Missouri, 1932

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,972
2	Betty	1,540
3	Dorothy	764
4	Barbara	711
5	Shirley	622
6	Patricia	561
7	Helen	487
8	Norma	482
9	Joan	444
10	Doris	417
11	Virginia	406
12	Margaret	358
13	Ruth	337
14	Lois	309
15	Wanda	300
16	Anna	274
17	Joyce	273
18	Martha	265
19	Bonnie	254
19	Marilyn	254
21	Wilma	252
22	Dolores	232
22	Frances	232
24	Peggy	227
25	Evelyn	221
25	Nancy	221
27	Jean	220
28	Donna	211
29	Mildred	207
30	Marjorie	202
31	Beverly	200
32	Alice	191
33	Elizabeth	188
34	Ruby	184
35	Juanita	182
36	Phyllis	176
37	Patsy	173
38	Delores	172
39	Rose	167
40	Carol	154
41	Marie	149
42	Gloria	147
43	Geraldine	146
44	June	142
44	Thelma	142
46	Joann	140
47	Rosemary	136
48	Jo	129
49	Edna	126
49	Louise	126

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,763
2	James	1,341
3	Donald	1,245
4	John	1,156
5	William	1,152
6	Charles	1,067
7	Richard	775
8	Billy	534
9	George	493
10	Kenneth	492
11	Harold	437
12	Jack	399
13	Paul	382
14	Thomas	370
15	Bobby	328
15	Edward	328
17	David	307
18	Raymond	296
19	Joseph	293
20	Jerry	290
21	Carl	281
22	Ronald	256
23	Eugene	239
24	Joe	228
25	Frank	227
26	Bill	226
27	Walter	220
28	Norman	216
29	Ralph	206
30	Marvin	197
31	Bob	196
32	Roy	194
33	Gerald	192
34	Arthur	177
35	Earl	176
36	Don	169
37	Henry	167
38	Harry	160
39	Lawrence	159
40	Albert	153
41	Clarence	148
41	Dale	148
43	Gene	146
44	Melvin	139
45	Howard	137
46	Wayne	129
47	Vernon	128
48	Floyd	126
48	Leonard	126
50	Lloyd	125