Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Virginia, 1946

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,562
2	Linda	1,256
3	Barbara	1,072
4	Patricia	995
5	Betty	812
6	Brenda	741
7	Sandra	730
8	Carolyn	728
9	Nancy	693
9	Shirley	693
11	Joyce	576
12	Margaret	496
13	Judy	465
14	Carol	446
15	Dorothy	405
16	Gloria	377
16	Judith	377
18	Virginia	344
19	Elizabeth	342
20	Sharon	330
21	Susan	329
22	Martha	325
23	Frances	314
24	Phyllis	299
25	Peggy	296
26	Donna	273
27	Helen	257
28	Janice	248
28	Joan	248
30	Doris	244
31	Jean	228
32	Alice	225
33	Bonnie	224
34	Rebecca	218
35	Ruth	214
36	Janet	211
37	Patsy	203
38	Ann	197
39	Diane	189
40	Evelyn	186
41	Jane	180
42	Wanda	175
43	Lois	168
44	Mildred	161
45	Sylvia	155
46	Beverly	152
47	Charlotte	149
48	Ruby	146
49	Anne	140
50	Connie	139

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,400
2	William	1,744
3	Robert	1,614
4	John	1,491
5	Charles	1,116
6	Richard	889
7	Thomas	771
8	David	739
9	George	646
10	Ronald	583
11	Donald	575
12	Larry	572
13	Michael	490
14	Jerry	434
15	Joseph	432
16	Roger	421
17	Edward	418
18	Kenneth	399
19	Gary	311
20	Paul	290
21	Walter	281
22	Raymond	255
23	Roy	251
24	Wayne	250
25	Dennis	239
26	Bobby	227
27	Billy	219
28	Samuel	216
29	Harry	215
30	Frank	212
31	Douglas	210
32	Henry	209
33	Harold	208
34	Ralph	194
35	Willie	192
36	Ronnie	187
37	Carl	186
38	Danny	183
39	Clarence	181
40	Daniel	179
41	Earl	176
42	Stephen	164
43	Jimmy	161
44	Lawrence	160
45	Ernest	158
46	Johnny	148
47	Arthur	146
48	Gerald	145
49	Howard	140
50	Melvin	137