Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,652
2	Virginia	804
3	Margaret	637
4	Helen	571
5	Elizabeth	556
6	Dorothy	545
7	Ruth	512
8	Frances	424
9	Louise	399
10	Mildred	350
11	Annie	331
12	Ruby	314
13	Evelyn	295
14	Edith	293
15	Thelma	284
16	Alice	281
17	Gladys	269
18	Hazel	263
19	Ethel	256
20	Edna	255
21	Martha	238
22	Lucille	224
23	Lillian	221
24	Elsie	215
25	Nellie	206
26	Sarah	204
27	Bessie	199
28	Pauline	187
29	Anna	186
30	Grace	185
31	Lucy	174
31	Marie	174
33	Katherine	173
34	Catherine	172
35	Mabel	171
36	Irene	170
37	Beatrice	159
37	Emma	159
39	Doris	151
39	Florence	151
41	Clara	148
42	Bertha	142
43	Ella	140
44	Myrtle	136
44	Pearl	136
46	Gertrude	132
47	Rosa	131
48	Mattie	130
49	Alma	128
49	Julia	128

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,401
2	William	1,314
3	John	1,024
4	Robert	752
5	George	602
6	Charles	567
7	Thomas	400
8	Joseph	340
9	Edward	307
10	Walter	293
11	Henry	273
12	Harry	243
13	Frank	238
14	Willie	233
15	Richard	232
16	Clarence	206
16	Raymond	206
18	Paul	198
19	Samuel	182
20	Charlie	181
21	Roy	168
22	Arthur	165
23	Howard	147
24	Ernest	140
25	Albert	131
26	David	130
26	Ralph	130
28	Earl	125
29	Carl	114
30	Claude	111
31	Woodrow	107
32	Fred	106
33	Lewis	105
34	Harold	102
34	Herbert	102
34	Russell	102
37	Herman	100
38	Lawrence	97
39	Elmer	91
40	Louis	86
41	Jesse	85
42	Cecil	82
43	Clyde	81
44	Eugene	79
44	Melvin	79
46	Joe	78
46	Leonard	78
48	Norman	77
49	Floyd	75
50	Alfred	74