Name Yearbook

Top baby names in West Virginia, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,437
2	Betty	1,036
3	Helen	635
4	Dorothy	488
5	Virginia	471
6	Margaret	426
7	Ruth	373
8	Anna	300
9	Mildred	281
10	Frances	257
11	Elizabeth	253
12	Ruby	218
13	Evelyn	198
14	Thelma	196
15	Martha	195
16	Doris	187
17	Alice	181
18	Pauline	179
19	Wanda	169
20	Edna	164
20	Hazel	164
22	Juanita	160
23	Louise	159
24	Jean	156
24	Norma	156
26	Edith	153
27	Irene	152
28	Ethel	142
29	Wilma	135
30	Phyllis	134
31	Gladys	131
32	Maxine	124
33	Marie	122
34	Nellie	118
35	Lucille	117
36	Emma	114
37	Lillian	113
38	Geraldine	109
38	Kathleen	109
40	Violet	108
41	Josephine	106
41	Nancy	106
43	Marjorie	105
44	Clara	103
45	Eva	101
46	Opal	100
46	Rose	100
48	Gloria	95
49	Barbara	94
50	Naomi	93

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,203
2	William	1,050
3	Robert	962
4	Charles	822
5	John	783
6	George	398
7	Paul	334
8	Donald	299
9	Harold	288
10	Jack	272
11	Richard	265
12	Thomas	243
13	Joseph	239
14	Harry	238
15	Carl	228
16	Edward	219
17	Frank	209
18	Roy	185
19	Howard	181
20	Billy	180
21	Ralph	178
22	Raymond	177
23	Eugene	175
24	Walter	154
25	Kenneth	152
26	Junior	151
27	Clarence	148
28	Earl	146
29	Henry	129
30	David	118
31	Albert	117
32	Ray	116
33	Lawrence	114
34	Ernest	113
35	Russell	106
36	Fred	103
37	Arthur	102
38	Cecil	95
39	Bernard	91
40	Samuel	87
41	Joe	85
42	Elmer	80
43	Leonard	76
44	Lewis	75
45	Gerald	73
46	Herbert	71
47	Clyde	69
48	Clifford	68
49	Virgil	66
50	Melvin	65