Popular baby names in West Virginia, 1912

The most popular baby names in West Virginia in 1912 were Mary for girls (519 babies) and James for boys (328). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 12,951 babies born in West Virginia in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in West Virginia in 1912

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

Girls

Delphia: 15 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Audra: 16 babies, 14× the national rate
Glenna: 16 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Vada: 16 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Madge: 20 babies, 6× the national rate
Goldie: 55 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Opal: 94 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Freda: 34 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Iva: 29 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Virginia: 248 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Basil: 15 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Delbert: 24 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Dennis: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Wilbert: 15 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Woodrow: 72 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Virgil: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Glen: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Guy: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Ray: 36 babies, 3× the national rate
Luther: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	519	–	1
2	Virginia	248	–	20
3	Helen	176	–	2
4	Ruth	169	↑2	5
5	Mildred	161	↑3	6
6	Margaret	153	↓2	4
7	Hazel	145	↑4	25
8	Elizabeth	142	↑1	8
9	Anna	138	↑1	7
10	Gladys	130	↑2	19
11	Thelma	129	↓4	26
12	Dorothy	121	↑1	3
13	Ruby	106	↓8	23
14	Nellie	98	↑1	59
15	Edna	97	↑3	16
16	Opal	94	↑1	85
17	Edith	91	↓1	31
18	Ethel	87	↓4	18
19	Mabel	87	↑2	46
20	Frances	80	↑13	9
21	Evelyn	73	↑3	13
22	Bertha	71	↑17	36
23	Bessie	69	↑8	43
24	Pearl	69	↑4	54
25	Irene	68	↑11	22
26	Marie	68	↓1	10
27	Pauline	68	–	38
28	Alice	67	↓8	11
29	Grace	67	↓10	24
30	Lillian	67	↑8	14
31	Elsie	65	↓8	42
32	Beulah	64	↑3	80
33	Eva	58	↓11	49
34	Martha	58	↓5	29
35	Julia	56	↑9	44
36	Myrtle	56	↓10	50
37	Goldie	55	↓7	>100
38	Louise	55	↓4	17
39	Alma	53	↑7	62
40	Lucille	53	↑5	32
41	Minnie	51	↑2	60
42	Violet	51	new	83
43	Rose	50	new	15
44	Clara	49	↓12	34
45	Gertrude	49	new	30
46	Laura	48	↑4	57
47	Ida	45	new	45
48	Catherine	44	↓8	21
49	Sarah	44	↓12	41
50	Katherine	41	↓9	53

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	328	↑2	3
2	William	280	↓1	2
3	John	265	↓1	1
4	Charles	222	–	7
5	Robert	184	–	4
6	George	134	–	6
7	Harry	117	–	16
8	Joseph	109	–	5
9	Paul	84	↑2	14
10	Clarence	78	↑11	21
11	Edward	78	↓1	8
12	Carl	77	↑12	24
13	Frank	77	↓4	9
14	Woodrow	72	new	46
15	Howard	71	↓2	25
16	Thomas	70	–	10
17	Roy	66	↓3	31
18	Harold	64	↑2	13
19	Ralph	60	↓4	23
20	Walter	55	↑3	11
21	Earl	54	↓3	34
22	Fred	52	–	26
23	Henry	51	↓4	12
24	Richard	50	↑6	19
25	Eugene	47	↑20	41
26	Raymond	46	↓14	18
27	Albert	43	↓10	17
28	Lawrence	43	↓1	38
29	Arthur	39	↑3	15
30	Clyde	37	↓2	65
31	Ernest	37	↑3	32
32	Ray	36	↑6	77
33	Herman	35	new	50
34	Herbert	34	↓5	39
35	David	32	↓10	29
36	Russell	32	↑10	56
37	Elmer	31	↓4	47
38	Lewis	30	↑5	68
39	Cecil	29	↑5	76
40	Bernard	28	↓3	60
41	Leonard	28	new	45
42	Jack	27	new	28
43	Kenneth	26	↓17	33
44	Samuel	26	↓13	30
45	Clifford	25	↑3	62
46	Donald	25	↓10	27
47	Louis	25	↓7	20
48	Theodore	25	new	52
49	Virgil	25	↓2	>100
50	Andrew	24	new	44

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