Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,600
2	Dorothy	801
3	Betty	619
4	Margaret	544
5	Virginia	529
6	Helen	495
7	Frances	431
8	Mildred	392
9	Doris	383
10	Ruth	354
11	Elizabeth	344
12	Jean	306
13	Annie	281
14	Evelyn	276
15	Ruby	259
16	Gladys	248
17	Thelma	245
18	Alice	243
19	Edith	240
20	Nancy	237
21	Louise	235
22	Shirley	216
23	Barbara	213
24	Martha	212
25	Hazel	201
26	Anna	200
27	Lois	199
28	Joyce	190
29	Elsie	177
30	Lillian	175
31	Edna	168
32	Catherine	164
33	Ethel	157
34	Sarah	152
35	Marie	150
36	Emma	149
37	Ann	143
38	Lucille	141
38	Pauline	141
40	Peggy	140
41	Bernice	134
42	Lucy	130
43	Clara	129
43	Irene	129
45	Nellie	127
46	Audrey	126
47	Anne	123
48	Juanita	122
49	June	116
50	Phyllis	115

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,682
2	William	1,450
3	John	1,047
4	Robert	962
5	Charles	762
6	George	597
7	Thomas	406
8	Richard	379
9	Joseph	352
10	Herbert	351
11	Edward	346
12	Walter	249
13	Henry	239
14	David	238
15	Clarence	225
16	Donald	221
16	Harry	221
18	Willie	218
19	Frank	204
20	Harold	199
21	Earl	198
21	Raymond	198
23	Paul	190
24	Charlie	173
25	Roy	171
26	Jack	167
27	Ralph	166
27	Samuel	166
29	Eugene	163
30	Howard	161
31	Carl	160
32	Arthur	152
33	Fred	150
34	Ernest	141
35	Billy	139
36	Albert	135
37	Melvin	132
38	Kenneth	128
39	Alfred	117
40	Lewis	112
41	Curtis	110
42	Clyde	109
42	Lawrence	109
44	Ray	104
45	Bernard	99
46	Joe	98
47	Cecil	95
48	Herman	94
49	Floyd	93
50	Marvin	86