Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,919
2	Virginia	917
3	Margaret	740
4	Dorothy	697
5	Helen	653
6	Elizabeth	550
7	Ruth	516
8	Frances	513
9	Mildred	478
10	Louise	458
11	Annie	407
12	Ruby	365
13	Gladys	332
14	Alice	308
14	Edith	308
16	Evelyn	304
17	Ethel	276
17	Lucille	276
19	Thelma	267
20	Edna	259
21	Hazel	253
22	Lillian	240
23	Martha	238
24	Elsie	232
25	Sarah	225
26	Catherine	223
27	Anna	219
28	Marie	211
29	Irene	199
30	Emma	195
31	Beatrice	189
31	Pauline	189
33	Lucy	188
34	Katherine	183
35	Nellie	176
36	Florence	171
37	Grace	167
38	Doris	165
39	Pearl	157
40	Bertha	155
40	Bessie	155
40	Clara	155
43	Eva	154
44	Ella	153
45	Myrtle	152
46	Josephine	148
47	Ida	147
48	Julia	146
48	Mabel	146
48	Rosa	146

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,703
2	William	1,492
3	John	1,216
4	Robert	984
5	Charles	668
6	George	663
7	Joseph	448
7	Thomas	448
9	Edward	358
10	Walter	319
11	Harry	302
12	Henry	300
13	Willie	283
14	Richard	281
15	Clarence	251
16	Frank	248
17	Raymond	229
18	Paul	225
19	Samuel	223
20	Charlie	212
21	Roy	205
22	Albert	185
23	Herbert	176
24	Ernest	169
25	Arthur	166
25	Howard	166
27	David	159
28	Earl	154
29	Ralph	147
30	Fred	133
31	Carl	131
32	Eugene	129
33	Jack	119
34	Harold	116
34	Lewis	116
36	Woodrow	110
37	Jesse	109
37	Russell	109
39	Herman	107
40	Clyde	104
41	Andrew	103
41	Elmer	103
41	Melvin	103
44	Lawrence	102
45	Bernard	99
46	Floyd	97
47	Claude	96
48	Alfred	90
49	Benjamin	88
49	Joe	88