Popular baby names in Virginia, 1922

The most popular baby names in Virginia in 1922 were Mary for girls (2,010 babies) and James for boys (1,823). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 52,945 babies born in Virginia in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Virginia in 1922

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, 18.4× the national rate
Nannie: 105 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Pattie: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lelia: 42 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Gracie: 62 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Queen: 25 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Corrine: 23 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Kate: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Blanch: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Roxie: 25 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Waverly: 19 babies, 25.2× the national rate
Linwood: 58 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Junius: 31 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Garnett: 19 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Kyle: 18 babies, 10× the national rate
Carter: 17 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Randolph: 49 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Garland: 77 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Aubrey: 47 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Percy: 58 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Virginia, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	2,010	–	1
2	Virginia	906	–	7
3	Dorothy	904	–	2
4	Margaret	845	–	4
5	Helen	735	–	3
6	Frances	548	↑2	10
7	Elizabeth	522	–	9
8	Ruth	516	↓2	5
9	Mildred	489	–	8
10	Annie	391	↑1	30
11	Edith	367	↑7	34
12	Evelyn	357	–	13
13	Louise	356	↓3	22
14	Alice	348	↑1	15
15	Ruby	335	↓2	26
16	Gladys	327	↓2	25
17	Lillian	306	↑2	19
18	Doris	300	↑4	11
19	Hazel	289	↑4	37
20	Thelma	288	↓4	31
21	Ethel	274	↓4	32
22	Martha	273	↓1	21
23	Anna	257	↑5	12
24	Lucille	252	↓4	33
25	Edna	249	↓1	29
26	Sarah	244	↓1	51
27	Marie	237	–	14
28	Pauline	225	↑2	36
29	Catherine	209	↓3	24
30	Elsie	206	↑1	59
31	Emma	201	↑7	50
32	Nancy	198	↑16	78
33	Florence	197	↑2	18
34	Irene	191	↓5	17
35	Clara	182	↑2	47
36	Myrtle	169	new	75
37	Nellie	169	↑12	83
38	Katherine	167	↓4	54
39	Betty	162	new	6
40	Rosa	162	↑4	>100
41	Grace	161	↓2	38
42	Lucy	154	↓10	93
43	Josephine	151	new	27
44	Pearl	148	↑1	71
45	Bertha	147	↓4	63
46	Beatrice	146	↓13	43
47	Lois	144	new	35
48	Marjorie	144	↓6	16
49	Ida	142	new	65
50	Kathleen	141	new	80

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	1,823	–	4
2	William	1,654	–	3
3	John	1,275	–	1
4	Robert	1,047	–	2
5	Charles	799	–	5
6	George	723	–	6
7	Thomas	497	–	11
8	Joseph	450	–	7
9	Edward	440	–	8
10	Henry	339	↑2	17
11	Richard	296	↓1	9
12	Walter	295	↓1	15
13	Willie	289	–	28
14	Frank	282	↑3	10
15	Clarence	270	↑1	29
16	Harry	268	↓1	22
17	Raymond	234	↑2	16
18	Samuel	233	↑2	43
19	Paul	221	↓1	14
20	Roy	207	↑3	32
21	Arthur	198	↑3	19
22	Earl	196	↑4	31
23	Charlie	195	↑8	72
24	Ralph	192	↓3	23
25	David	189	–	24
26	Howard	188	↓4	26
27	Herbert	186	↑3	40
28	Ernest	176	↑1	37
29	Harold	172	↓2	13
30	Eugene	167	↑11	25
31	Warren	164	↓17	45
32	Albert	155	↓4	20
33	Jack	148	↑1	18
34	Lewis	144	↓1	75
35	Fred	139	↓3	33
36	Lawrence	128	↑2	36
37	Carl	124	↓2	30
38	Claude	118	↑1	97
39	Herman	114	↑4	66
40	Cecil	111	↑4	85
41	Kenneth	108	new	21
42	Clyde	107	↑7	67
43	Floyd	105	new	61
44	Russell	103	↓7	49
45	Jesse	101	–	81
46	Alfred	100	↓10	42
47	Joe	99	–	35
48	Melvin	99	↓8	50
49	Andrew	97	↓7	53
50	Marvin	97	new	56

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