Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	998
2	Virginia	434
3	Margaret	334
4	Elizabeth	324
5	Helen	307
6	Louise	288
7	Ruth	285
8	Dorothy	259
9	Annie	214
10	Frances	180
11	Ethel	172
11	Mildred	172
13	Gladys	170
14	Alice	161
14	Evelyn	161
14	Lillian	161
17	Ruby	159
18	Thelma	153
19	Edna	143
20	Sarah	141
21	Bessie	139
22	Grace	132
23	Hazel	130
24	Marie	129
25	Martha	128
26	Anna	125
26	Elsie	125
28	Lucille	119
29	Carrie	114
29	Florence	114
31	Edith	112
31	Nellie	112
33	Rosa	111
34	Lucy	110
35	Emma	107
36	Mabel	105
37	Clara	104
38	Bertha	101
39	Catherine	100
40	Beatrice	98
41	Laura	97
42	Myrtle	94
43	Irene	93
43	Pearl	93
45	Eva	92
46	Ida	83
46	Pauline	83
48	Beulah	82
49	Mamie	81
50	Julia	80

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	777
2	William	734
3	John	633
4	Robert	412
5	George	351
6	Charles	292
7	Thomas	232
8	Joseph	216
9	Edward	171
10	Willie	166
11	Henry	153
12	Richard	141
13	Walter	136
14	Harry	125
15	Frank	120
16	Clarence	110
17	Charlie	109
18	Samuel	104
19	Woodrow	101
20	Raymond	99
21	Paul	90
22	Roy	79
23	Howard	78
24	Arthur	76
25	Ernest	75
26	Albert	68
27	David	61
28	Earl	60
28	Herman	60
30	Andrew	59
31	Harold	58
32	Lewis	57
33	Ralph	56
33	Russell	56
35	Carl	55
36	Claude	52
36	Herbert	52
38	Alfred	51
38	Floyd	51
40	Fred	49
40	Jack	49
42	Benjamin	47
42	Eugene	47
44	Joe	46
45	Lawrence	45
46	Jesse	43
47	Louis	39
48	Clyde	37
49	Harvey	36
49	Leonard	36