Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,941
2	Dorothy	906
3	Virginia	775
4	Margaret	762
5	Helen	632
6	Frances	515
7	Ruth	503
8	Elizabeth	502
9	Mildred	452
10	Doris	360
11	Evelyn	343
12	Annie	340
13	Louise	338
14	Thelma	332
15	Gladys	324
16	Ruby	319
17	Betty	309
18	Alice	306
19	Edith	288
20	Martha	259
21	Hazel	256
22	Lillian	254
23	Catherine	253
24	Ethel	229
25	Lucille	227
26	Anna	225
27	Edna	213
28	Elsie	210
29	Marie	207
30	Nancy	201
31	Irene	199
32	Jean	192
33	Sarah	188
34	Lois	186
35	Pauline	178
36	Bessie	170
37	Lucy	168
38	Emma	166
39	Shirley	162
40	Katherine	155
41	Clara	154
42	Rosa	151
43	Florence	150
44	Grace	145
45	Bernice	144
46	Bertha	137
47	Nellie	133
48	Julia	131
48	Myrtle	131
50	June	130

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,848
2	William	1,610
3	John	1,238
4	Robert	1,021
5	Charles	721
6	George	704
7	Thomas	489
8	Joseph	465
9	Edward	377
10	Richard	319
11	Walter	311
12	Henry	273
13	Clarence	257
13	Frank	257
15	Harry	256
16	Willie	249
17	Raymond	241
18	Paul	240
19	Harold	209
20	David	203
21	Howard	200
22	Arthur	197
23	Samuel	196
24	Calvin	195
25	Charlie	181
25	Earl	181
27	Roy	173
28	Ralph	165
29	Jack	162
30	Albert	158
31	Eugene	152
32	Ernest	151
33	Herbert	148
34	Carl	137
35	Fred	136
36	Lawrence	129
37	Herman	128
38	Russell	125
39	Lewis	122
40	Kenneth	121
41	Clyde	118
42	Alfred	111
43	Cecil	107
44	Louis	106
45	Floyd	104
45	Melvin	104
47	Andrew	100
48	Jesse	96
49	Marvin	94
50	Donald	93