Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Wisconsin, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Dorothy	892
2	Mary	838
3	Helen	773
4	Ruth	692
5	Margaret	678
6	Evelyn	487
7	Florence	417
8	Irene	406
9	Mildred	383
10	Alice	374
11	Marie	365
12	Lucille	363
13	Esther	304
13	Virginia	304
15	Elizabeth	293
16	Bernice	291
17	Marion	282
18	Lorraine	277
19	Frances	268
20	Eleanor	262
21	Rose	241
22	Gertrude	239
23	Lillian	232
24	Anna	222
25	Doris	217
26	Gladys	214
27	Agnes	189
28	Grace	186
29	Edna	183
30	June	182
31	Hazel	181
32	Marian	179
33	Ethel	178
34	Leona	176
35	Catherine	175
36	Josephine	165
37	Violet	157
38	Jane	155
39	Beatrice	150
40	Ann	145
40	Viola	145
42	Marjorie	140
42	Myrtle	140
44	Genevieve	138
45	Marcella	133
46	Edith	132
47	Betty	130
48	Pearl	129
49	Jean	128
50	Lois	126

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	965
2	John	953
3	William	683
4	George	551
5	Edward	510
6	Joseph	499
7	Harold	479
8	Raymond	428
9	James	393
10	Donald	380
11	Frank	368
12	Walter	357
13	Charles	329
14	Arthur	292
15	Clarence	270
16	Richard	256
17	Kenneth	255
18	Henry	253
19	Carl	245
20	Leonard	217
21	Harry	215
22	Ralph	213
23	Paul	204
24	Lawrence	201
25	Howard	198
26	Norman	196
27	Earl	194
28	Elmer	182
29	Eugene	178
30	Louis	167
31	Francis	162
32	Gordon	157
33	Albert	154
33	Lester	154
33	Thomas	154
36	Leo	149
36	Roy	149
38	Herbert	144
39	Edwin	141
40	Lloyd	140
41	Alfred	138
41	Stanley	138
43	Bernard	137
44	Melvin	136
45	Arnold	131
45	Fred	131
47	Russell	130
48	Frederick	129
49	Chester	126
50	Ervin	123