Popular baby names in West Virginia, 1913

The most popular baby names in West Virginia in 1913 were Mary for girls (641 babies) and William for boys (386). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 15,025 babies born in West Virginia in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in West Virginia in 1913

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

Glenna: 19 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Garnet: 19 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Hallie: 18 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Goldie: 65 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Virgie: 29 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Dessie: 15 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Freda: 40 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Madge: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Opal: 101 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Nannie: 20 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Denver: 15 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Delbert: 23 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Woodrow: 107 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Cecil: 46 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Orville: 23 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Clyde: 51 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Homer: 33 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Wilson: 22 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Glenn: 35 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Archie: 18 babies, 2.6× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	641	–	1
2	Virginia	276	–	15
3	Helen	248	–	2
4	Ruth	216	–	5
5	Margaret	197	↑1	4
6	Dorothy	161	↑6	3
7	Mildred	155	↓2	6
8	Edith	136	↑9	29
9	Ruby	135	↑4	23
10	Gladys	134	–	19
11	Anna	124	↓2	7
12	Thelma	122	↓1	26
13	Elizabeth	121	↓5	8
14	Hazel	120	↓7	27
15	Ethel	110	↑3	20
16	Nellie	107	↓2	58
17	Opal	101	↓1	86
18	Evelyn	99	↑3	12
19	Edna	98	↓4	18
20	Mabel	93	↓1	56
21	Alice	87	↑7	11
22	Frances	87	↓2	9
23	Louise	81	↑15	17
24	Martha	81	↑10	28
25	Lillian	79	↑5	16
26	Pauline	78	↑1	35
27	Beulah	74	↑5	85
28	Grace	74	↑1	25
29	Pearl	73	↓5	55
30	Myrtle	71	↑6	53
31	Irene	70	↓6	21
32	Marie	70	↓6	10
33	Bessie	66	↓10	47
34	Alma	65	↑5	64
35	Goldie	65	↑2	>100
36	Emma	63	new	38
37	Jessie	60	new	61
38	Eva	59	↓5	50
39	Sarah	58	↑10	43
40	Catherine	55	↑8	22
41	Clara	55	↑3	36
42	Elsie	53	↓11	40
43	Georgia	51	new	100
44	Ida	51	↑3	49
45	Lena	50	new	73
46	Violet	50	↓4	82
47	Gertrude	48	↓2	33
48	Rose	48	↓5	14
49	Beatrice	47	new	37
50	Bertha	47	↓28	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	William	386	↑1	2
2	James	352	↓1	3
3	John	327	–	1
4	Charles	222	–	7
5	Robert	209	–	4
6	George	173	–	6
7	Paul	125	↑2	14
8	Joseph	120	–	5
9	Harry	117	↓2	15
10	Woodrow	107	↑4	44
11	Thomas	96	↑5	10
12	Frank	92	↑1	9
13	Harold	89	↑5	13
14	Carl	80	↓2	23
15	Edward	79	↓4	8
16	Howard	78	↓1	26
17	Ralph	78	↑2	22
18	Raymond	70	↑8	18
19	Roy	70	↓2	32
20	Walter	70	–	11
21	Earl	69	–	31
22	Richard	69	↑2	19
23	Clarence	67	↓13	21
24	Fred	65	↓2	27
25	Lawrence	65	↑3	35
26	Henry	61	↓3	12
27	Clyde	51	↑3	64
28	Arthur	49	↑1	17
29	Cecil	46	↑10	74
30	Donald	46	↑16	25
31	Albert	45	↓4	16
32	Kenneth	45	↑11	33
33	Herbert	44	↑1	39
34	Russell	44	↑2	50
35	Elmer	39	↑2	45
36	Jack	39	↑6	28
37	Joe	39	new	37
38	Samuel	39	↑6	36
39	Bernard	37	↑1	52
40	Eugene	37	↓15	43
41	David	36	↓6	29
42	Ernest	35	↓11	34
43	Glenn	35	new	85
44	Homer	33	new	96
45	Leonard	29	↓4	46
46	Ray	28	↓14	73
47	Alfred	27	new	42
48	Andrew	25	↑2	47
49	Everett	25	new	97
50	Claude	24	new	88

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