Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Virginia, 1948

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Linda	2,307
2	Mary	1,486
3	Barbara	1,117
4	Brenda	1,061
5	Patricia	1,041
6	Carolyn	779
7	Betty	725
8	Sandra	698
9	Nancy	687
10	Joyce	590
11	Shirley	554
12	Susan	509
13	Judy	501
14	Margaret	495
15	Carol	404
16	Sharon	394
17	Dorothy	389
18	Elizabeth	383
19	Gloria	368
20	Donna	356
21	Martha	330
22	Peggy	318
23	Frances	314
24	Phyllis	313
25	Virginia	294
26	Bonnie	290
27	Janice	268
28	Alice	262
29	Judith	257
30	Wanda	256
31	Cynthia	254
32	Janet	253
33	Deborah	247
34	Helen	244
35	Doris	241
36	Rebecca	237
37	Pamela	215
38	Joan	212
39	Diane	210
40	Ann	207
41	Ruth	202
42	Beverly	193
42	Evelyn	193
44	Jean	189
45	Karen	186
46	Jacqueline	184
47	Patsy	180
48	Catherine	179
49	Jane	172
50	Jo	164

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,448
2	William	1,793
3	Robert	1,724
4	John	1,608
5	Charles	1,111
6	David	1,025
7	Larry	887
8	Thomas	820
9	Richard	807
10	Michael	731
11	Ronald	676
12	George	673
13	Donald	613
14	Joseph	524
15	Kenneth	480
16	Jerry	474
17	Gary	438
18	Roger	424
19	Edward	411
20	Paul	326
21	Walter	296
22	Dennis	287
23	Stephen	282
24	Raymond	266
25	Wayne	249
26	Harry	244
27	Danny	241
28	Frank	234
29	Ronnie	230
30	Samuel	229
31	Harold	226
32	Henry	220
33	Willie	219
34	Carl	217
35	Roy	214
36	Bobby	208
37	Lawrence	206
38	Daniel	205
39	Ralph	204
40	Douglas	199
41	Clarence	191
42	Melvin	182
43	Billy	172
44	Earl	168
45	Johnny	167
46	Ernest	163
46	Jimmy	163
48	Howard	161
49	Arthur	157
50	Gerald	156