Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1935

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,465
2	Shirley	1,296
3	Betty	1,028
4	Barbara	695
5	Dorothy	568
6	Margaret	422
7	Nancy	410
8	Virginia	399
9	Doris	361
9	Helen	361
11	Frances	348
12	Joyce	319
13	Peggy	293
14	Elizabeth	273
15	Jean	256
16	Evelyn	239
16	Ruth	239
18	Mildred	230
19	Alice	229
20	Annie	225
21	Ruby	222
22	Patricia	217
23	Martha	216
24	Thelma	200
25	Phyllis	190
26	Lois	187
27	Gladys	160
28	Joan	158
29	Ann	156
30	Elsie	142
31	Louise	141
32	Anna	139
33	Charlotte	137
34	Sarah	134
35	Hazel	133
36	Catherine	131
37	Norma	124
38	Edith	118
39	Edna	116
40	Lillian	113
41	Carolyn	111
41	Emma	111
43	Marie	110
44	Gloria	108
45	Clara	105
45	Ethel	105
47	Rosa	104
48	Anne	103
49	Ella	99
49	June	99

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,736
2	William	1,197
3	Robert	1,164
4	John	909
5	Charles	806
6	George	510
7	Thomas	433
8	Richard	392
9	Donald	381
10	Joseph	323
11	Bobby	295
12	Edward	276
13	Billy	242
13	Walter	242
15	David	240
16	Paul	223
17	Henry	206
18	Frank	191
19	Clarence	189
20	Harold	187
21	Raymond	182
22	Willie	179
23	Kenneth	173
24	Harry	172
25	Jack	166
25	Roy	166
27	Joe	160
28	Eugene	157
29	Earl	156
30	Samuel	151
31	Ralph	148
32	Melvin	138
33	Howard	136
34	Ernest	134
35	Charlie	133
36	Ronald	132
37	Herbert	129
38	Carl	126
39	Lawrence	122
40	Arthur	121
41	Albert	119
42	Lewis	113
43	Franklin	112
44	Jimmy	107
44	Norman	107
46	Marvin	105
47	Clyde	103
48	Fred	99
49	Bernard	98
50	Douglas	94