Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1931

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,559
2	Betty	818
3	Dorothy	637
4	Virginia	494
5	Helen	476
6	Margaret	468
7	Barbara	418
8	Doris	371
9	Frances	358
10	Mildred	324
11	Ruth	322
12	Elizabeth	318
13	Jean	314
14	Evelyn	298
15	Nancy	280
16	Shirley	277
17	Joyce	258
18	Ruby	256
19	Alice	240
20	Lois	223
21	Peggy	218
21	Thelma	218
23	Annie	210
24	Martha	200
25	Louise	194
26	Ann	178
27	Edith	174
28	Gladys	172
29	Hazel	171
30	Anna	169
31	Edna	164
32	Elsie	153
33	Lillian	149
34	Catherine	145
34	Ethel	145
36	Rosa	142
37	Lucille	138
38	Sarah	133
39	Juanita	126
39	Marie	126
41	Pauline	121
42	Bernice	118
42	Phyllis	118
44	Bessie	115
45	Geraldine	113
46	Irene	112
47	Gloria	110
48	Audrey	106
49	Nellie	102
50	Jane	101

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,552
2	William	1,267
3	Robert	1,073
4	John	998
5	Charles	790
6	George	551
7	Thomas	376
8	Richard	345
9	Joseph	329
10	Edward	289
11	Donald	267
12	Walter	258
13	Raymond	234
14	Paul	222
15	Harold	221
16	David	216
17	Billy	212
18	Henry	210
19	Clarence	209
20	Harry	192
21	Frank	184
22	Willie	180
23	Jack	177
24	Kenneth	168
24	Roy	168
26	Herbert	166
27	Carl	162
28	Ralph	159
29	Eugene	158
30	Earl	156
31	Albert	152
32	Samuel	143
33	Fred	137
34	Melvin	136
35	Ernest	132
36	Howard	131
37	Bobby	129
38	Charlie	125
39	Arthur	124
40	Lewis	119
41	Joe	112
42	Alfred	108
43	Lawrence	106
44	Herman	104
45	Bernard	94
45	Cecil	94
45	Marvin	94
48	Leroy	92
49	Floyd	90
50	Norman	89