Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Texas, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,589
2	Dorothy	1,070
3	Frances	757
4	Ruby	745
5	Margaret	727
6	Helen	702
6	Mildred	702
8	Ruth	662
9	Maria	591
10	Annie	533
11	Willie	515
12	Juanita	466
13	Evelyn	457
14	Virginia	453
15	Gladys	410
15	Hazel	410
17	Louise	395
18	Thelma	382
19	Edna	380
20	Lois	379
21	Alice	376
22	Doris	371
23	Pauline	367
24	Elizabeth	345
25	Martha	336
26	Lucille	334
27	Lillian	330
28	Marie	328
29	Opal	305
30	Lillie	299
31	Jessie	298
32	Ethel	293
33	Anna	283
34	Bessie	279
34	Irene	279
36	Clara	276
37	Edith	259
38	Eva	256
39	Emma	246
40	Myrtle	245
40	Vera	245
42	Bernice	241
43	Minnie	240
44	Josephine	233
45	Beatrice	226
46	Ella	218
47	Julia	214
48	Ida	209
48	Mattie	209
48	Velma	209

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,222
2	John	1,781
3	William	1,751
4	Robert	1,293
5	George	847
6	Charles	846
7	Joe	745
8	Thomas	611
9	Jack	580
10	Henry	543
11	Frank	524
12	Willie	504
13	Edward	422
14	Jose	418
15	Raymond	411
16	Walter	406
17	Roy	397
18	Joseph	393
19	Albert	360
20	Woodrow	340
21	Manuel	307
22	Arthur	300
23	David	296
24	Richard	287
25	Fred	268
26	Clarence	261
26	Louis	261
28	Charlie	258
29	Paul	257
30	Ernest	251
31	Juan	249
32	Harold	237
33	Earl	231
34	Carl	229
35	Jesse	226
36	Cecil	215
37	Jesus	209
38	Herbert	199
38	Marvin	199
40	Johnnie	197
41	Harry	192
42	Alfred	188
42	Lee	188
44	Eugene	186
45	Ralph	185
46	Howard	181
46	Leon	181
48	Floyd	178
49	Clyde	175
50	Jessie	171