Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,220
2	Virginia	604
3	Helen	519
4	Ruth	456
5	Margaret	401
6	Mildred	349
7	Dorothy	338
8	Anna	244
8	Ruby	244
10	Elizabeth	242
11	Frances	232
12	Edith	228
13	Thelma	225
14	Gladys	215
15	Pauline	203
16	Hazel	200
17	Ethel	185
18	Edna	178
19	Evelyn	177
19	Lillian	177
21	Irene	173
21	Martha	173
23	Louise	158
24	Marie	155
25	Betty	151
26	Opal	144
27	Nellie	142
28	Mabel	135
29	Alice	124
30	Lucille	122
31	Pearl	119
32	Juanita	115
33	Clara	112
34	Eva	101
35	Bessie	99
35	Elsie	99
35	Maxine	99
35	Rose	99
39	Emma	98
40	Kathleen	97
41	Myrtle	96
42	Violet	94
43	Freda	92
44	Grace	91
44	Sarah	91
46	Beulah	90
46	Kathryn	90
48	Eleanor	88
49	Josephine	86
50	Bertha	85

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	805
2	James	803
3	John	716
4	Charles	632
5	Robert	562
6	George	346
7	Paul	235
8	Joseph	216
9	Harry	213
10	Harold	208
11	Edward	201
12	Thomas	196
13	Frank	195
14	Clarence	182
15	Walter	179
16	Carl	172
17	Howard	168
18	Roy	164
19	Raymond	154
20	Richard	152
21	Ralph	142
22	Earl	141
23	Albert	134
24	Jack	133
25	Henry	111
26	Kenneth	107
27	Eugene	105
28	Fred	104
29	Donald	103
30	Samuel	101
31	Arthur	100
32	Ernest	95
33	Woodrow	91
34	Bernard	87
35	Lawrence	85
36	Clyde	84
36	Joe	84
38	Cecil	82
38	David	82
40	Elmer	81
40	Herbert	81
40	Ray	81
43	Russell	75
44	Andrew	69
45	Chester	68
46	Lewis	65
46	Willard	65
48	Clifford	62
48	Louis	62
48	Virgil	62