Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,783
2	Virginia	819
3	Margaret	694
4	Dorothy	615
5	Elizabeth	565
6	Helen	559
7	Ruth	489
8	Frances	421
9	Louise	397
10	Mildred	389
11	Annie	378
12	Gladys	300
13	Thelma	299
14	Alice	295
15	Ruby	294
16	Evelyn	292
17	Edith	275
18	Lillian	267
19	Ethel	260
20	Hazel	259
21	Edna	254
22	Lucille	236
23	Martha	235
24	Sarah	208
25	Catherine	196
26	Elsie	194
27	Anna	191
27	Lucy	191
29	Marie	184
30	Bessie	181
30	Irene	181
32	Nellie	172
33	Katherine	168
33	Pauline	168
35	Clara	160
35	Myrtle	160
37	Emma	157
38	Florence	156
38	Grace	156
40	Eva	148
41	Beatrice	145
41	Mabel	145
43	Bertha	144
43	Laura	144
45	Julia	137
46	Rosa	135
47	Alma	133
48	Ida	132
48	Pearl	132
50	Ella	126

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,527
2	William	1,324
3	John	1,159
4	Robert	794
5	George	633
6	Charles	623
7	Thomas	428
8	Joseph	375
9	Edward	331
10	Walter	307
11	Richard	277
12	Willie	261
13	Henry	249
14	Frank	237
15	Clarence	226
16	Harry	221
17	Samuel	187
18	Paul	181
19	Charlie	176
20	Raymond	161
21	Arthur	156
22	Earl	148
22	Roy	148
24	Fred	147
25	Albert	146
26	Howard	145
27	Ernest	142
28	Herbert	141
29	David	140
30	Lewis	126
31	Ralph	121
32	Lawrence	118
33	Carl	114
33	Harold	114
35	Woodrow	108
36	Alfred	103
37	Eugene	102
37	Jack	102
39	Clyde	98
40	Claude	96
40	Jesse	96
42	Russell	94
43	Louis	87
44	Herman	84
44	Melvin	84
46	Vernon	81
47	Luther	79
48	Joe	78
49	Andrew	77
50	Benjamin	74