Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,075
2	Dorothy	1,003
3	Margaret	800
4	Virginia	797
5	Helen	650
6	Ruth	549
7	Frances	531
8	Elizabeth	516
9	Mildred	472
10	Evelyn	392
11	Annie	382
12	Louise	371
13	Alice	350
14	Doris	346
15	Ruby	343
16	Thelma	325
17	Edith	311
18	Martha	304
19	Gladys	290
20	Hazel	274
21	Anna	268
22	Lillian	260
23	Ethel	252
24	Betty	241
25	Pauline	234
26	Marie	233
27	Lucille	225
28	Sarah	220
29	Catherine	219
30	Edna	218
31	Elsie	216
32	Irene	210
33	Nancy	207
34	Bessie	187
34	Jean	187
36	Katherine	172
37	Lucy	171
38	Emma	168
39	Bernice	162
39	Rosa	162
41	Florence	161
42	Audrey	154
42	Bertha	154
44	Lois	153
45	Nellie	150
46	Eva	147
47	Beatrice	145
47	Juanita	145
49	Myrtle	141
50	Mabel	140

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,917
2	William	1,539
3	John	1,249
4	Robert	1,103
5	Charles	793
6	George	731
7	Thomas	516
8	Joseph	443
9	Edward	379
10	Walter	352
11	Richard	338
12	Frank	320
13	Henry	305
14	Harry	269
15	Willie	267
16	Paul	252
17	Raymond	251
18	Clarence	242
19	Calvin	232
20	Roy	226
21	David	214
22	Samuel	210
23	Howard	202
24	Ernest	196
25	Charlie	191
25	Ralph	191
27	Arthur	186
28	Harold	185
29	Earl	177
30	Herbert	159
31	Albert	153
32	Eugene	145
33	Lewis	144
34	Fred	139
35	Carl	136
35	Lawrence	136
37	Jack	132
38	Clyde	126
39	Claude	123
40	Melvin	122
41	Kenneth	121
42	Russell	110
43	Herman	106
44	Joe	100
45	Luther	98
46	Bernard	95
46	Lloyd	95
48	Andrew	93
49	Cecil	92
50	Ray	91