Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,647
2	Betty	863
3	Helen	693
4	Virginia	612
5	Dorothy	535
6	Margaret	486
7	Ruth	452
8	Anna	358
9	Mildred	326
10	Frances	278
11	Elizabeth	276
12	Evelyn	244
12	Thelma	244
14	Ruby	232
15	Edith	211
16	Juanita	207
17	Gladys	196
17	Martha	196
19	Edna	195
19	Hazel	195
21	Irene	193
22	Pauline	185
23	Lillian	161
24	Alice	157
25	Doris	155
26	Louise	153
27	Ethel	152
28	Maxine	148
29	Lucille	147
30	Wanda	140
31	Norma	135
32	Jean	131
33	Kathleen	128
34	Nellie	122
35	Marjorie	120
35	Sarah	120
37	Geraldine	117
38	Phyllis	116
39	Violet	115
40	Eva	114
40	Marie	114
42	Mabel	113
42	Opal	113
42	Rose	113
45	Josephine	110
46	Beulah	109
47	Elsie	107
48	Emma	106
48	Freda	106
50	Eleanor	105

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,238
2	William	1,060
3	Robert	937
4	John	932
5	Charles	864
6	George	455
7	Paul	369
8	Harold	296
9	Joseph	280
10	Thomas	261
11	Donald	259
12	Jack	250
13	Richard	245
14	Harry	240
15	Edward	230
16	Carl	222
17	Frank	215
18	Clarence	197
19	Roy	185
20	Raymond	184
21	Walter	177
22	Earl	172
23	Ralph	171
24	Kenneth	164
25	Howard	160
26	Calvin	153
27	Junior	147
28	Eugene	144
29	Henry	137
30	David	135
31	Albert	132
32	Ernest	126
33	Fred	122
33	Ray	122
35	Billy	120
36	Bernard	114
37	Arthur	112
38	Lawrence	108
38	Russell	108
40	Joe	106
41	Herbert	105
42	Clyde	100
43	Samuel	97
44	Elmer	93
45	Cecil	92
46	Lewis	81
47	Homer	75
48	Clifford	72
49	Leonard	66
50	Jesse	65