Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,385
2	Shirley	1,025
3	Barbara	942
3	Betty	942
5	Nancy	580
6	Dorothy	478
7	Margaret	401
8	Joyce	373
9	Frances	370
10	Patricia	365
11	Peggy	342
12	Virginia	321
13	Doris	317
14	Helen	312
15	Elizabeth	290
16	Jean	270
17	Martha	255
18	Ruth	223
19	Phyllis	218
20	Alice	213
21	Mildred	209
22	Carolyn	206
23	Evelyn	197
24	Annie	180
25	Joan	177
25	Ruby	177
27	Ann	168
28	Lois	162
29	Thelma	158
30	Norma	151
31	Shelby	149
32	Gladys	141
33	Charlotte	138
33	Sylvia	138
35	Anna	137
36	Janice	136
37	Edith	135
37	Gloria	135
39	Janet	133
40	Elsie	130
41	Patsy	129
42	Edna	128
43	Sarah	121
44	Carol	115
44	Wanda	115
46	Ethel	114
47	Catherine	113
48	Marie	112
48	Sandra	112
50	Loretta	111

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,806
2	William	1,314
3	Robert	1,235
4	John	1,014
5	Charles	803
6	George	501
7	Donald	494
8	Thomas	481
9	Richard	464
10	David	364
11	Joseph	351
12	Edward	330
13	Bobby	281
14	Paul	258
15	Kenneth	249
16	Billy	241
17	Walter	220
18	Harold	219
19	Raymond	212
20	Frank	200
21	Ronald	193
22	Harry	190
23	Henry	172
24	Roy	165
25	Ralph	164
26	Joe	161
27	Clarence	160
28	Howard	158
28	Willie	158
30	Melvin	157
31	Carl	153
32	Jerry	152
33	Earl	146
34	Jack	145
35	Charlie	140
36	Fred	136
37	Samuel	135
38	Ernest	134
39	Eugene	130
40	Arthur	127
41	Larry	123
42	Lawrence	120
43	Herbert	116
44	Lewis	113
45	Albert	105
45	Curtis	105
45	Jimmy	105
48	Franklin	104
49	Marvin	101
50	Clyde	98