Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,914
2	Annie	858
3	Willie	543
4	Margaret	459
5	Ruby	451
6	Mildred	390
6	Ruth	390
8	Mattie	356
9	Louise	345
10	Frances	340
11	Elizabeth	338
12	Dorothy	301
13	Helen	284
14	Ethel	281
15	Gladys	275
16	Lillie	252
17	Edna	251
18	Evelyn	240
19	Bessie	231
20	Martha	229
21	Jessie	222
21	Minnie	222
23	Sarah	221
24	Bertha	212
25	Virginia	209
26	Alice	206
26	Clara	206
28	Hazel	204
29	Thelma	198
30	Lucille	196
31	Lillian	195
31	Lois	195
33	Marie	190
34	Emma	181
35	Nellie	179
36	Myrtle	173
37	Carrie	171
38	Irene	165
39	Ida	163
40	Pauline	162
41	Julia	158
42	Mamie	155
43	Lula	154
44	Fannie	153
44	Rosa	153
46	Ella	152
47	Edith	150
48	Hattie	148
49	Grace	143
50	Eva	142

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,872
2	John	1,319
3	William	1,262
4	Robert	898
5	Willie	780
6	George	615
7	Thomas	459
8	Charles	454
9	Henry	421
10	Joseph	354
11	Edward	289
12	Frank	279
13	Walter	253
14	Joe	252
15	Charlie	239
16	Fred	208
17	Arthur	202
18	Woodrow	188
19	David	181
20	Clarence	179
21	Roy	177
22	Albert	176
23	Samuel	170
24	Jack	161
24	Richard	161
26	Howard	155
27	Ernest	152
28	Paul	151
29	Johnnie	148
30	Jessie	147
31	Cecil	133
32	Sam	129
33	Raymond	125
34	Andrew	120
35	Carl	118
35	Eddie	118
37	Eugene	112
38	Ralph	109
39	Jesse	105
40	Earl	104
40	Marvin	104
42	Leroy	96
43	Leon	95
44	Earnest	94
44	Herman	94
44	Louis	94
47	Curtis	92
47	Oscar	92
49	Floyd	90
50	Clyde	89