Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,788
2	Dorothy	859
3	Virginia	663
4	Margaret	634
5	Helen	564
6	Frances	486
7	Ruth	444
8	Betty	437
9	Mildred	419
10	Elizabeth	414
11	Doris	378
12	Evelyn	370
13	Annie	334
14	Thelma	315
15	Ruby	312
16	Alice	304
17	Louise	294
18	Gladys	270
19	Jean	268
20	Edith	237
21	Martha	235
22	Anna	224
23	Sarah	222
24	Edna	208
25	Hazel	201
26	Lillian	196
27	Marie	187
28	Shirley	184
29	Nancy	183
30	Lois	181
31	Catherine	177
32	Lucille	175
33	Elsie	174
33	Ethel	174
35	Pauline	173
36	Barbara	166
37	Irene	158
38	Emma	156
39	Rosa	151
40	Juanita	135
41	Katherine	133
42	Ann	132
42	Bernice	132
44	Audrey	128
45	Clara	127
46	Bessie	126
46	Christine	126
46	Lucy	126
46	Nellie	126
50	Grace	125

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,835
2	William	1,463
3	John	1,145
4	Robert	1,103
5	Charles	762
6	George	665
7	Thomas	469
8	Joseph	429
9	Edward	420
10	Richard	332
11	Clarence	274
12	Frank	261
13	Walter	257
14	Harry	255
15	Willie	245
16	Henry	244
17	Raymond	234
18	Roy	228
19	Paul	227
20	David	212
21	Ralph	198
22	Earl	195
23	Eugene	194
24	Jack	183
25	Carl	181
26	Harold	178
26	Samuel	178
28	Howard	174
29	Arthur	167
30	Charlie	162
31	Kenneth	152
32	Ernest	144
32	Fred	144
32	Herbert	144
35	Albert	142
36	Donald	140
37	Lewis	138
38	Melvin	135
39	Calvin	129
39	Lawrence	129
41	Bernard	117
42	Alfred	115
43	Clyde	108
44	Joe	102
45	Curtis	101
46	Russell	100
47	Floyd	99
48	Claude	96
49	Cecil	94
50	Jesse	92