Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,230
2	Virginia	499
3	Helen	464
4	Ruth	383
5	Margaret	363
6	Mildred	310
7	Dorothy	282
8	Elizabeth	270
9	Ruby	223
10	Hazel	220
11	Anna	219
12	Pauline	202
13	Frances	190
14	Edith	188
15	Evelyn	187
16	Ethel	181
17	Thelma	179
18	Gladys	174
19	Martha	158
20	Edna	150
21	Lillian	140
22	Betty	127
22	Nellie	127
22	Opal	127
25	Alice	125
26	Irene	123
27	Marie	117
28	Lucille	114
29	Myrtle	113
30	Mabel	112
31	Louise	111
32	Juanita	110
33	Beulah	108
34	Sarah	100
35	Elsie	98
36	Josephine	95
37	Bertha	93
38	Catherine	92
38	Grace	92
40	Emma	90
40	Genevieve	90
40	Stella	90
43	Bessie	89
43	Eva	89
43	Pearl	89
46	Alma	88
47	Kathleen	87
48	Florence	84
49	Rose	83
50	Katherine	81

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	705
2	William	678
3	John	659
4	Charles	567
5	Robert	470
6	George	300
7	Paul	238
8	Harry	205
9	Frank	198
10	Joseph	196
11	Thomas	182
12	Edward	163
13	Harold	160
14	Carl	157
15	Roy	154
16	Walter	148
17	Howard	140
18	Richard	135
19	Raymond	124
20	Ralph	123
21	Clarence	120
21	Earl	120
23	Henry	114
24	Kenneth	109
25	Donald	102
26	Albert	100
27	Eugene	95
28	Jack	90
28	Lawrence	90
30	Clyde	88
31	David	86
32	Woodrow	84
33	Fred	80
34	Ernest	78
35	Samuel	76
36	Cecil	72
36	Willard	72
38	Herbert	71
39	Elmer	70
40	Joe	68
41	Arthur	63
42	Russell	62
43	Bernard	61
43	Chester	61
43	Virgil	61
46	Leonard	60
47	Homer	59
48	Gerald	54
48	Ray	54
50	Clifford	50