Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,844
2	Dorothy	875
3	Virginia	768
4	Margaret	676
5	Helen	558
6	Frances	530
7	Mildred	473
8	Ruth	435
9	Elizabeth	406
10	Doris	362
11	Annie	350
12	Evelyn	333
13	Betty	327
14	Ruby	312
15	Gladys	296
15	Thelma	296
17	Alice	278
18	Louise	277
19	Edith	266
20	Martha	260
21	Edna	232
22	Jean	230
23	Lillian	229
24	Hazel	224
25	Anna	213
26	Ethel	210
27	Marie	205
28	Lois	200
29	Elsie	198
30	Catherine	197
30	Nancy	197
32	Lucille	194
33	Sarah	187
34	Pauline	183
35	Irene	177
36	Shirley	164
37	Audrey	149
38	Emma	148
38	Lucy	148
40	Rosa	145
41	Florence	142
42	Bernice	139
43	Eva	135
44	Katherine	133
45	Myrtle	126
46	June	125
47	Beatrice	124
48	Bessie	122
48	Juanita	122
50	Alma	121

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,745
2	William	1,472
3	John	1,122
4	Robert	999
5	Charles	684
6	George	641
7	Thomas	465
8	Joseph	382
9	Edward	357
10	Richard	298
11	Walter	268
12	Harry	262
13	Clarence	250
14	Raymond	246
15	Frank	243
16	Henry	241
17	Willie	230
18	Jack	191
18	Roy	191
20	Harold	189
21	Paul	184
22	Ralph	183
23	David	181
24	Howard	178
25	Charlie	177
26	Samuel	176
27	Arthur	168
27	Earl	168
29	Carl	160
30	Ernest	153
31	Eugene	150
32	Calvin	147
33	Albert	142
34	Fred	138
35	Herbert	133
36	Kenneth	124
37	Cecil	118
37	Lewis	118
39	Herman	114
40	Lawrence	113
41	Alfred	112
41	Clyde	112
43	Bernard	102
44	Marvin	101
45	Donald	99
46	Curtis	98
46	Melvin	98
48	Daniel	96
49	Floyd	95
50	Russell	93