Popular baby names in Virginia, 1913

The most popular baby names in Virginia in 1913 were Mary for girls (1,060 babies) and James for boys (881). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 26,791 babies born in Virginia in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Virginia in 1913

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

Girls

Alease: 23 babies, 28.9× the national rate
Nannie: 82 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Ocie: 17 babies, 8× the national rate
Blanch: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Bettie: 26 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Lelia: 18 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Virgie: 38 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Georgie: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Sallie: 57 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Roxie: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Linwood: 32 babies, 16× the national rate
Randolph: 23 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Emory: 19 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Garland: 20 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Percy: 32 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Rufus: 33 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Aubrey: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Claude: 80 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Grover: 21 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Julian: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Virginia, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	1,060	–	1
2	Virginia	448	–	15
3	Elizabeth	382	↑1	8
4	Margaret	375	↓1	4
5	Helen	335	–	2
6	Dorothy	318	↑2	3
7	Ruth	289	–	5
8	Louise	280	↓2	17
9	Annie	269	–	30
10	Gladys	210	↑3	19
11	Ruby	206	↑6	23
12	Frances	200	↓2	9
13	Ethel	193	↓2	20
14	Mildred	193	↓2	6
15	Martha	191	↑10	28
16	Evelyn	187	↓1	12
17	Thelma	170	↑1	26
18	Alice	169	↓4	11
19	Lillian	163	↓3	16
20	Hazel	150	↑3	27
21	Edna	148	↓2	18
22	Elsie	144	↑5	40
23	Anna	139	↑3	7
24	Sarah	137	↓4	43
25	Edith	136	↑6	29
26	Lucille	136	↑2	31
27	Emma	135	↑8	38
28	Bessie	132	↓7	47
29	Nellie	132	↑3	58
30	Mabel	125	↑6	56
31	Marie	125	↓7	10
32	Pauline	124	↑15	35
33	Lucy	123	↑1	77
34	Myrtle	117	↑8	53
35	Grace	111	↓13	25
36	Carrie	110	↓7	90
37	Beatrice	109	↑3	37
38	Irene	107	↑5	21
39	Catherine	106	–	22
40	Pearl	106	↑4	55
41	Clara	103	↓4	36
42	Bertha	100	↓4	39
43	Florence	99	↓13	13
44	Viola	99	new	52
45	Julia	95	↑5	42
46	Eva	92	↓1	50
47	Ida	90	↓1	49
48	Lillie	90	new	71
49	Katherine	85	new	54
50	Rosa	85	↓17	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	James	881	–	3
2	William	787	–	2
3	John	721	–	1
4	Robert	465	–	4
5	Charles	353	↑1	7
6	George	351	↓1	6
7	Thomas	257	–	10
8	Joseph	225	–	5
9	Edward	213	–	8
10	Walter	164	↑3	11
11	Willie	162	↓1	24
12	Richard	159	–	19
13	Henry	156	↓2	12
14	Clarence	148	↑2	21
15	Frank	135	–	9
16	Harry	135	↓2	15
17	Woodrow	125	↑2	44
18	Samuel	120	–	36
19	Charlie	110	↓2	62
20	Raymond	106	–	18
21	Arthur	102	↑3	17
22	Ernest	102	↑3	34
23	Paul	97	↓2	14
24	Roy	94	↓2	32
25	Howard	93	↓2	26
26	Herbert	84	↑11	39
27	Albert	81	↓1	16
28	Earl	81	–	31
29	Claude	80	↑7	88
30	David	76	↓3	29
31	Ralph	71	↑2	22
32	Russell	70	↑2	50
33	Carl	68	↑2	23
34	Lawrence	68	↑11	35
35	Herman	67	↓6	53
36	Eugene	66	↑7	43
37	Fred	66	↑3	27
38	Harold	66	↓7	13
39	Louis	62	↑8	20
40	Alfred	59	↓2	42
41	Andrew	58	↓11	47
42	Jack	53	↓1	28
43	Jesse	53	↑3	79
44	Melvin	53	new	61
45	Floyd	52	↓6	58
46	Benjamin	49	↓4	70
47	Lewis	49	↓15	72
48	Daniel	47	new	54
49	Leroy	47	new	63
50	Joe	42	↓6	37

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