Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,698
2	Dorothy	818
3	Virginia	617
4	Helen	569
5	Margaret	563
6	Betty	516
7	Frances	473
8	Ruth	437
9	Mildred	407
10	Elizabeth	380
11	Doris	369
12	Evelyn	319
13	Annie	310
14	Thelma	308
15	Jean	291
16	Ruby	279
17	Alice	278
18	Gladys	273
19	Louise	244
20	Martha	242
21	Nancy	235
22	Hazel	226
23	Lois	218
24	Anna	215
25	Edith	213
26	Barbara	208
26	Edna	208
28	Ethel	201
29	Lillian	200
30	Catherine	199
31	Shirley	191
32	Marie	187
33	Emma	158
34	Sarah	157
35	Irene	155
36	Lucille	152
36	Pauline	152
38	Bernice	151
38	Elsie	151
40	Audrey	145
41	Juanita	144
42	Joyce	143
43	Nellie	129
44	Ann	128
45	Bertha	125
46	Rosa	124
47	Katherine	122
47	Lucy	122
49	June	121
50	Clara	120

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,771
2	William	1,520
3	John	1,083
4	Robert	1,061
5	Charles	764
6	George	615
7	Thomas	497
8	Richard	375
9	Edward	359
10	Joseph	356
11	Herbert	301
12	Walter	280
13	Henry	272
14	Harry	249
15	Frank	223
15	Willie	223
17	Paul	222
17	Roy	222
19	Clarence	208
19	David	208
19	Raymond	208
22	Jack	198
23	Harold	197
24	Ralph	187
25	Fred	171
26	Charlie	164
27	Eugene	160
28	Earl	158
29	Samuel	152
30	Donald	149
31	Arthur	148
31	Howard	148
33	Carl	147
34	Albert	146
35	Melvin	139
36	Ernest	137
36	Kenneth	137
38	Alfred	134
39	Lawrence	129
39	Lewis	129
41	Clyde	128
42	Curtis	120
43	Billy	110
43	Calvin	110
45	Floyd	108
46	Russell	99
47	Herman	98
48	Joe	96
48	Marvin	96
50	Claude	94