Popular baby names in Virginia, 1927

The most popular baby names in Virginia in 1927 were Mary for girls (1,788 babies) and James for boys (1,835). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 49,081 babies born in Virginia in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Virginia in 1927

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

Girls

Nannie: 81 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Pattie: 17 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Kate: 21 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Lelia: 30 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Virgie: 55 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Georgie: 26 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Gracie: 48 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Isabell: 19 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Cornelia: 33 babies, 4× the national rate
Maude: 28 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Ashby: 15 babies, 34.8× the national rate
Garnett: 27 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Linwood: 73 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Lynwood: 17 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Kyle: 22 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Randolph: 51 babies, 9× the national rate
Junius: 18 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Beverly: 18 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Garfield: 15 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Garland: 57 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Virginia, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	1,788	–	1
2	Dorothy	859	–	2
3	Virginia	663	–	8
4	Margaret	634	–	5
5	Helen	564	–	4
6	Frances	486	–	12
7	Ruth	444	↑1	6
8	Betty	437	↑5	3
9	Mildred	419	↓2	11
10	Elizabeth	414	↓1	13
11	Doris	378	↓1	7
12	Evelyn	370	–	15
13	Annie	334	↓2	36
14	Thelma	315	↑2	38
15	Ruby	312	↓1	30
16	Alice	304	↑1	17
17	Louise	294	↑1	27
18	Gladys	270	↓3	37
19	Jean	268	↑3	14
20	Edith	237	↓1	48
21	Martha	235	↓1	24
22	Anna	224	↑3	16
23	Sarah	222	↑10	61
24	Edna	208	↓3	40
25	Hazel	201	↓1	53
26	Lillian	196	↓3	32
27	Marie	187	–	20
28	Shirley	184	↑8	9
29	Nancy	183	↑2	56
30	Lois	181	↓2	19
31	Catherine	177	↓1	31
32	Lucille	175	–	45
33	Elsie	174	↓4	72
34	Ethel	174	↓8	47
35	Pauline	173	↓1	42
36	Barbara	166	new	10
37	Irene	158	↓2	21
38	Emma	156	–	64
39	Rosa	151	↑1	>100
40	Juanita	135	↑9	55
41	Katherine	133	↑3	73
42	Ann	132	new	59
43	Bernice	132	↓1	49
44	Audrey	128	↓7	62
45	Clara	127	new	63
46	Bessie	126	↑2	88
47	Christine	126	new	>100
48	Lucy	126	↓9	>100
49	Nellie	126	new	>100
50	Grace	125	new	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	1,835	–	3
2	William	1,463	–	4
3	John	1,145	–	2
4	Robert	1,103	–	1
5	Charles	762	–	5
6	George	665	–	7
7	Thomas	469	–	11
8	Joseph	429	–	9
9	Edward	420	–	10
10	Richard	332	–	6
11	Clarence	274	↑2	32
12	Frank	261	↑3	12
13	Walter	257	↓2	17
14	Harry	255	↓2	25
15	Willie	245	↑2	27
16	Henry	244	–	19
17	Raymond	234	↓3	15
18	Roy	228	↑1	34
19	Paul	227	↑2	13
20	David	212	↑3	21
21	Ralph	198	↑1	24
22	Earl	195	↑6	33
23	Eugene	194	↑8	20
24	Jack	183	↓6	16
25	Carl	181	↑4	26
26	Harold	178	↓6	14
27	Samuel	178	↓1	49
28	Howard	174	↓4	28
29	Arthur	167	↓2	22
30	Charlie	162	↓5	80
31	Kenneth	152	↑5	18
32	Ernest	144	↓2	41
33	Fred	144	↑1	35
34	Herbert	144	↑1	42
35	Albert	142	↓2	23
36	Donald	140	↑9	8
37	Lewis	138	↑1	82
38	Melvin	135	↑9	48
39	Calvin	129	↓7	73
40	Lawrence	129	–	37
41	Bernard	117	↑2	50
42	Alfred	115	↓1	45
43	Clyde	108	↓1	68
44	Joe	102	new	30
45	Curtis	101	↑1	>100
46	Russell	100	↑4	54
47	Floyd	99	↑2	53
48	Claude	96	new	>100
49	Cecil	94	↓12	92
50	Jesse	92	new	89

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