Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,379
2	Virginia	633
3	Helen	597
4	Margaret	438
5	Ruth	395
6	Dorothy	352
7	Mildred	349
8	Frances	256
9	Betty	253
9	Elizabeth	253
11	Anna	247
12	Ruby	239
13	Edith	217
13	Evelyn	217
13	Thelma	217
16	Pauline	197
17	Hazel	193
18	Gladys	192
19	Irene	186
20	Ethel	180
21	Lillian	174
22	Martha	172
23	Juanita	167
24	Edna	166
25	Marie	165
26	Louise	141
27	Lucille	140
28	Nellie	139
29	Alice	133
29	Violet	133
31	Opal	132
32	Maxine	122
33	Mabel	120
34	Beulah	119
35	Eva	113
36	Catherine	109
37	Geraldine	107
37	Josephine	107
39	Kathleen	104
40	Myrtle	101
41	Rose	100
42	Stella	98
43	Pearl	95
44	Freda	94
45	Emma	93
46	Katherine	92
47	June	91
48	Elsie	90
48	Marjorie	90
50	Clara	89

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	969
2	William	910
3	John	831
4	Charles	726
5	Robert	589
6	George	398
7	Paul	319
8	Harold	267
9	Edward	224
10	Joseph	222
11	Frank	220
12	Harry	217
12	Thomas	217
14	Carl	200
15	Ralph	191
16	Walter	185
17	Earl	163
18	Raymond	162
19	Clarence	153
20	Jack	151
21	Roy	150
22	Richard	148
23	Howard	139
24	Warren	137
25	Eugene	126
26	Albert	122
27	Donald	119
28	Kenneth	117
29	Arthur	114
30	Henry	104
31	Clyde	101
31	Fred	101
33	Samuel	100
34	David	96
35	Leonard	94
36	Herbert	92
37	Ray	91
38	Ernest	89
38	Lawrence	89
40	Joe	82
41	Cecil	80
42	Virgil	75
43	Russell	72
44	Lewis	71
45	Elmer	70
46	Chester	68
47	Homer	65
48	Willard	64
49	Bernard	63
49	Clifford	63