Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,120
2	Virginia	446
3	Helen	445
4	Ruth	377
5	Margaret	374
6	Dorothy	286
7	Mildred	263
8	Ruby	232
9	Anna	215
10	Edith	207
10	Elizabeth	207
12	Thelma	203
13	Hazel	199
14	Evelyn	183
15	Edna	181
15	Opal	181
17	Pauline	170
18	Frances	163
19	Mabel	155
20	Martha	154
21	Ethel	151
22	Gladys	150
23	Marie	142
24	Nellie	140
25	Louise	132
26	Irene	130
27	Lillian	124
28	Beulah	123
29	Alice	114
30	Eva	109
31	Lucille	108
32	Juanita	106
33	Grace	99
34	Myrtle	94
35	Bessie	93
36	Emma	87
36	Josephine	87
36	Sarah	87
39	Clara	86
40	Pearl	85
41	Betty	84
42	Elsie	81
43	Freda	80
44	Rose	77
45	Gertrude	76
45	Katherine	76
47	Bertha	75
48	Eleanor	74
48	Julia	74
48	Violet	74

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	648
2	William	634
3	James	611
4	Charles	522
5	Robert	408
6	George	272
7	Paul	241
8	Harry	199
9	Joseph	180
10	Frank	176
11	Edward	168
12	Harold	146
13	Thomas	138
14	Woodrow	133
15	Roy	132
16	Carl	131
17	Howard	126
18	Raymond	124
19	Richard	120
20	Earl	118
21	Ralph	114
22	Walter	108
23	Albert	107
24	Clarence	103
25	Fred	98
26	Clyde	94
27	Kenneth	91
28	Henry	89
29	Arthur	81
30	Willard	80
31	Samuel	75
32	Ernest	74
32	Ray	74
34	Lawrence	72
35	Herbert	71
36	Joe	70
37	Donald	69
38	Jack	68
39	Cecil	67
40	David	64
40	Virgil	64
42	Russell	60
43	Homer	57
44	Leonard	56
45	Elmer	54
46	Chester	52
46	Eugene	52
48	Clifford	51
49	Bernard	50
50	Lester	47