Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Shirley	1,403
2	Mary	1,380
3	Betty	946
4	Barbara	773
5	Nancy	492
6	Dorothy	473
7	Margaret	388
8	Frances	358
9	Joyce	350
10	Virginia	334
11	Peggy	324
12	Doris	316
13	Helen	314
14	Jean	288
15	Elizabeth	265
16	Patricia	241
17	Ruth	225
18	Martha	224
19	Mildred	217
20	Evelyn	207
21	Alice	202
22	Joan	190
23	Ruby	187
24	Phyllis	184
25	Lois	183
26	Annie	179
27	Ann	161
27	Thelma	161
29	Sarah	151
30	Gladys	150
31	Edith	149
32	Carolyn	141
33	Norma	137
34	Charlotte	134
35	Anna	133
36	Louise	131
37	Gloria	129
38	Hazel	127
39	Catherine	123
40	Sylvia	122
41	Ethel	120
42	Edna	119
43	Rosa	115
44	Lillian	114
45	Emma	106
46	Audrey	102
47	Patsy	98
48	June	97
49	Elsie	96
50	Jane	95

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,609
2	William	1,198
3	Robert	1,129
4	John	965
5	Charles	814
6	George	515
7	Thomas	446
8	Donald	406
9	Richard	405
10	Joseph	306
11	Bobby	290
12	Edward	288
13	David	281
14	Raymond	246
15	Paul	226
16	Billy	224
16	Harold	224
18	Walter	211
19	Kenneth	193
20	Frank	192
21	Harry	183
22	Clarence	180
22	Willie	180
24	Carl	179
25	Henry	178
26	Joe	174
27	Roy	166
28	Ralph	165
29	Howard	160
30	Samuel	158
31	Earl	152
32	Jack	148
33	Ronald	145
34	Franklin	142
35	Charlie	138
36	Eugene	137
37	Fred	133
38	Melvin	131
39	Ernest	120
40	Albert	117
41	Lawrence	112
42	Arthur	111
43	Curtis	106
44	Jerry	105
45	Herbert	100
46	Clyde	97
47	Marvin	96
48	Leroy	95
49	Alfred	94
49	Cecil	94