Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,939
2	Virginia	827
3	Margaret	779
4	Dorothy	750
5	Helen	639
6	Elizabeth	610
7	Ruth	542
8	Frances	535
9	Mildred	435
10	Louise	408
11	Annie	394
12	Gladys	366
13	Thelma	346
14	Edith	339
15	Evelyn	329
16	Ruby	318
17	Alice	305
18	Martha	300
19	Ethel	291
20	Lillian	282
21	Hazel	276
22	Lucille	258
23	Edna	248
24	Sarah	246
25	Catherine	230
26	Anna	217
27	Elsie	213
28	Doris	207
29	Marie	197
30	Nellie	190
31	Pauline	180
32	Emma	175
32	Rosa	175
34	Irene	173
35	Bertha	170
35	Bessie	170
37	Beatrice	167
37	Grace	167
39	Katherine	164
39	Lucy	164
39	Pearl	164
42	Clara	155
43	Julia	154
44	Bernice	151
44	Mabel	151
44	Myrtle	151
47	Florence	149
48	Eva	147
49	Nancy	146
50	Mattie	136

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,722
2	William	1,526
3	John	1,203
4	Robert	912
5	George	713
6	Charles	613
7	Thomas	508
8	Joseph	429
9	Edward	385
10	Walter	339
11	Henry	295
12	Richard	266
13	Clarence	260
14	Frank	258
15	Willie	249
16	Harry	237
17	Raymond	217
18	Charlie	216
19	Samuel	215
20	Roy	211
21	Paul	203
22	Howard	177
23	Herbert	174
24	Arthur	172
25	Ernest	165
26	David	163
26	Earl	163
28	Ralph	155
29	Harold	149
30	Herman	142
31	Albert	133
32	Carl	129
33	Fred	128
34	Lawrence	125
35	Lewis	121
36	Jack	117
37	Russell	116
38	Claude	111
39	Joe	109
40	Eugene	105
41	Louis	101
42	Jesse	100
43	Elmer	93
43	Floyd	93
45	Clyde	91
46	Andrew	88
47	Leroy	86
48	Alfred	85
48	Bernard	85
48	Marvin	85