Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,452
2	Shirley	1,145
3	Betty	925
4	Barbara	799
5	Nancy	474
6	Dorothy	436
7	Margaret	398
8	Frances	352
8	Virginia	352
10	Helen	326
11	Joyce	325
12	Doris	321
13	Patricia	319
14	Peggy	312
15	Elizabeth	305
16	Jean	253
17	Ruth	242
18	Martha	239
19	Ruby	211
20	Phyllis	207
21	Mildred	206
22	Alice	193
23	Evelyn	189
24	Annie	184
25	Joan	177
26	Lois	175
27	Shelby	173
28	Thelma	167
29	Ann	165
30	Sarah	157
31	Louise	154
32	Gladys	144
33	Carolyn	143
34	Anna	136
35	Sylvia	135
36	Edith	131
37	Gloria	127
38	Norma	126
39	Charlotte	121
40	Jane	120
41	Janice	118
42	Patsy	116
43	Carol	114
43	Edna	114
45	Catherine	112
46	Delores	106
47	Audrey	105
48	Emma	103
48	Hazel	103
48	Janet	103

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,735
2	William	1,241
3	Robert	1,184
4	John	968
5	Charles	758
6	George	520
7	Thomas	443
8	Richard	439
9	Donald	403
10	Bobby	322
11	Joseph	316
12	Edward	312
13	David	305
14	Walter	228
15	Paul	226
16	Kenneth	222
17	Billy	218
18	Raymond	197
19	Joe	195
20	Harold	194
20	Willie	194
22	Clarence	190
22	Henry	190
24	Frank	170
24	Harry	170
26	Ralph	166
27	Roy	161
28	Carl	157
29	Ronald	156
30	Samuel	151
31	Jack	149
32	Earl	148
33	Howard	139
34	Franklin	132
34	Lawrence	132
36	Arthur	129
36	Eugene	129
36	Fred	129
39	Melvin	127
40	Ernest	122
41	Jerry	120
42	Curtis	116
43	Herbert	111
44	Albert	107
44	Larry	107
46	Charlie	105
47	Alfred	103
48	Jimmy	99
49	Gene	98
50	Norman	97