Popular baby names in Virginia, 1912

The most popular baby names in Virginia in 1912 were Mary for girls (998 babies) and James for boys (777). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,930 babies born in Virginia in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Virginia in 1912

Names given at least 15 times in Virginia that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Lelia: 35 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Nannie: 78 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Gracie: 35 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Virgie: 41 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Virginia: 434 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Rosa: 111 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Sallie: 53 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bettie: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Susie: 80 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Janie: 34 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Linwood: 27 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Emmett: 31 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Aubrey: 22 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Moses: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Charlie: 109 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Percy: 25 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Marshall: 25 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Claude: 52 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Wilson: 28 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Clifton: 23 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Virginia, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	998	–	1
2	Virginia	434	–	20
3	Margaret	334	↑1	4
4	Elizabeth	324	↓1	8
5	Helen	307	↑2	2
6	Louise	288	–	17
7	Ruth	285	↑1	5
8	Dorothy	259	↓3	3
9	Annie	214	↑1	27
10	Frances	180	↑5	9
11	Ethel	172	↑2	18
12	Mildred	172	↑5	6
13	Gladys	170	↓4	19
14	Alice	161	–	11
15	Evelyn	161	↑11	13
16	Lillian	161	↓5	14
17	Ruby	159	↓1	23
18	Thelma	153	↓6	26
19	Edna	143	↑1	16
20	Sarah	141	↑3	41
21	Bessie	139	–	43
22	Grace	132	↑13	24
23	Hazel	130	↓4	25
24	Marie	129	↑7	10
25	Martha	128	↓7	29
26	Anna	125	↓2	7
27	Elsie	125	↓5	42
28	Lucille	119	↓1	32
29	Carrie	114	↑16	82
30	Florence	114	↑12	12
31	Edith	112	↑13	31
32	Nellie	112	↓7	59
33	Rosa	111	↑6	94
34	Lucy	110	↑2	78
35	Emma	107	↓3	35
36	Mabel	105	↓3	46
37	Clara	104	–	34
38	Bertha	101	↓8	36
39	Catherine	100	↓11	21
40	Beatrice	98	↓2	37
41	Laura	97	new	57
42	Myrtle	94	↑5	50
43	Irene	93	new	22
44	Pearl	93	↓15	54
45	Eva	92	↓11	49
46	Ida	83	new	45
47	Pauline	83	new	38
48	Beulah	82	new	80
49	Mamie	81	new	95
50	Julia	80	new	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	777	–	3
2	William	734	–	2
3	John	633	–	1
4	Robert	412	–	4
5	George	351	–	6
6	Charles	292	–	7
7	Thomas	232	↑1	10
8	Joseph	216	↓1	5
9	Edward	171	↑2	8
10	Willie	166	↓1	22
11	Henry	153	↓1	12
12	Richard	141	↑1	19
13	Walter	136	↓1	11
14	Harry	125	↑3	16
15	Frank	120	–	9
16	Clarence	110	–	21
17	Charlie	109	↓3	57
18	Samuel	104	↑1	30
19	Woodrow	101	new	46
20	Raymond	99	↓2	18
21	Paul	90	↑7	14
22	Roy	79	↑1	31
23	Howard	78	↓1	25
24	Arthur	76	↓3	15
25	Ernest	75	–	32
26	Albert	68	↑1	17
27	David	61	↓1	29
28	Earl	60	↑3	34
29	Herman	60	–	50
30	Andrew	59	↑11	44
31	Harold	58	↑12	13
32	Lewis	57	↑2	68
33	Ralph	56	↓9	23
34	Russell	56	↑2	56
35	Carl	55	–	24
36	Claude	52	↑8	89
37	Herbert	52	↓7	39
38	Alfred	51	↑10	40
39	Floyd	51	↓7	59
40	Fred	49	↓20	26
41	Jack	49	↓2	28
42	Benjamin	47	↓2	67
43	Eugene	47	↓6	41
44	Joe	46	↓11	36
45	Lawrence	45	↓7	38
46	Jesse	43	–	74
47	Louis	39	–	20
48	Clyde	37	new	65
49	Harvey	36	new	91
50	Leonard	36	new	45

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