Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,541
2	Virginia	674
3	Helen	663
4	Ruth	479
5	Margaret	471
6	Dorothy	435
7	Betty	419
8	Mildred	339
9	Anna	313
10	Frances	247
11	Elizabeth	243
12	Ruby	239
13	Evelyn	234
14	Edith	225
14	Martha	225
14	Thelma	225
17	Pauline	211
18	Juanita	210
19	Gladys	196
20	Hazel	195
21	Opal	170
22	Irene	163
23	Lucille	155
24	Louise	154
25	Alice	150
25	Lillian	150
27	Edna	149
28	Marie	147
29	Doris	133
29	Ethel	133
29	Maxine	133
32	Beulah	130
33	Kathleen	128
34	Mabel	127
35	Geraldine	120
36	Nellie	115
37	Marjorie	113
38	Myrtle	111
39	Eva	109
40	Rose	108
40	Wanda	108
42	Violet	106
43	Beatrice	100
44	Jean	98
45	Sarah	96
45	Wilma	96
47	June	95
48	Freda	94
49	Josephine	90
50	Julia	89

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,037
2	William	1,028
3	John	821
4	Charles	781
5	Robert	762
6	George	427
7	Paul	320
8	Joseph	282
9	Harold	280
10	Thomas	251
11	Harry	244
12	Frank	234
13	Edward	211
13	Jack	211
15	Walter	187
16	Ralph	182
17	Carl	178
18	Earl	177
19	Richard	171
20	Donald	169
21	Roy	161
22	Raymond	154
23	Kenneth	151
24	Eugene	150
25	Howard	146
26	Clarence	144
27	Albert	128
28	Fred	121
29	Henry	119
30	Joe	111
31	Herbert	104
32	Russell	103
33	Ernest	102
34	Arthur	101
34	David	101
36	Junior	98
37	Lawrence	95
38	Ray	92
39	Clyde	90
39	Leonard	90
39	Samuel	90
42	Bernard	87
42	Elmer	87
44	Warren	82
45	Homer	81
46	Cecil	79
47	Virgil	75
48	Clifford	73
49	Alfred	65
50	Lester	61