Popular baby names in Virginia, 1928

The most popular baby names in Virginia in 1928 were Mary for girls (1,698 babies) and James for boys (1,771). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 47,617 babies born in Virginia in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Virginia in 1928

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, 21.6× the national rate
Lelia: 47 babies, 9× the national rate
Nannie: 70 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Queen: 34 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Gracie: 49 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Virgie: 42 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Roxie: 16 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Hester: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Sallie: 46 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Rebecca: 75 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Junius: 37 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Linwood: 64 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Garland: 61 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Beverly: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Carson: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Randolph: 38 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Emory: 29 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Aubrey: 52 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Everette: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Woodrow: 21 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Virginia, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	1,698	–	1
2	Dorothy	818	–	3
3	Virginia	617	–	9
4	Helen	569	↑1	4
5	Margaret	563	↓1	5
6	Betty	516	↑2	2
7	Frances	473	↓1	13
8	Ruth	437	↓1	6
9	Mildred	407	–	15
10	Elizabeth	380	–	14
11	Doris	369	–	7
12	Evelyn	319	–	17
13	Annie	310	–	37
14	Thelma	308	–	40
15	Jean	291	↑4	12
16	Ruby	279	↓1	34
17	Alice	278	↓1	19
18	Gladys	273	–	41
19	Louise	244	↓2	31
20	Martha	242	↑1	22
21	Nancy	235	↑8	43
22	Hazel	226	↑3	59
23	Lois	218	↑7	18
24	Anna	215	↓2	16
25	Edith	213	↓5	56
26	Barbara	208	↑10	8
27	Edna	208	↓3	45
28	Ethel	201	↑6	55
29	Lillian	200	↓3	35
30	Catherine	199	↑1	33
31	Shirley	191	↓3	10
32	Marie	187	↓5	21
33	Emma	158	↑5	67
34	Sarah	157	↓11	64
35	Irene	155	↑2	28
36	Lucille	152	↓4	51
37	Pauline	152	↓2	48
38	Bernice	151	↑5	53
39	Elsie	151	↓6	73
40	Audrey	145	↑4	60
41	Juanita	144	↓1	58
42	Joyce	143	new	30
43	Nellie	129	↑6	>100
44	Ann	128	↓2	54
45	Bertha	125	new	81
46	Rosa	124	↓7	>100
47	Katherine	122	↓6	75
48	Lucy	122	–	>100
49	June	121	new	44
50	Clara	120	↓5	65

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	James	1,771	–	3
2	William	1,520	–	4
3	John	1,083	–	2
4	Robert	1,061	–	1
5	Charles	764	–	5
6	George	615	–	8
7	Thomas	497	–	11
8	Richard	375	↑2	6
9	Edward	359	–	10
10	Joseph	356	↓2	9
11	Herbert	301	↑23	25
12	Walter	280	↑1	18
13	Henry	272	↑3	21
14	Harry	249	–	26
15	Frank	223	↓3	12
16	Willie	223	↓1	29
17	Paul	222	↑2	13
18	Roy	222	–	34
19	Clarence	208	↓8	35
20	David	208	–	19
21	Raymond	208	↓4	16
22	Jack	198	↑2	15
23	Harold	197	↑3	14
24	Ralph	187	↓3	24
25	Fred	171	↑8	36
26	Charlie	164	↑4	80
27	Eugene	160	↓4	20
28	Earl	158	↓6	37
29	Samuel	152	↓2	52
30	Donald	149	↑6	7
31	Arthur	148	↓2	22
32	Howard	148	↓4	31
33	Carl	147	↓8	28
34	Albert	146	↑1	23
35	Melvin	139	↑3	48
36	Ernest	137	↓4	43
37	Kenneth	137	↓6	17
38	Alfred	134	↑4	33
39	Lawrence	129	↑1	38
40	Lewis	129	↓3	86
41	Clyde	128	↑2	74
42	Curtis	120	↑3	>100
43	Billy	110	new	27
44	Calvin	110	↓5	94
45	Floyd	108	↑2	54
46	Russell	99	–	55
47	Herman	98	new	78
48	Joe	96	↓4	30
49	Marvin	96	new	46
50	Claude	94	↓2	>100

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