Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,360
2	Annie	965
3	Margaret	511
4	Willie	510
5	Mildred	478
6	Ruby	467
6	Ruth	467
8	Dorothy	460
9	Louise	427
10	Helen	387
11	Mattie	371
12	Frances	342
13	Gladys	322
14	Elizabeth	317
15	Sarah	310
16	Ethel	308
17	Evelyn	300
18	Lillie	297
19	Virginia	275
20	Edna	263
21	Martha	258
22	Clara	255
23	Lillian	249
24	Bessie	246
25	Minnie	244
26	Emma	238
27	Lois	227
28	Lucille	226
29	Hazel	224
30	Bertha	219
31	Jessie	212
32	Myrtle	210
33	Pauline	209
34	Marie	207
35	Doris	204
36	Fannie	197
37	Alice	188
38	Thelma	187
39	Irene	178
39	Nellie	178
41	Lula	175
42	Beatrice	173
42	Ella	173
44	Carrie	168
45	Edith	166
46	Rosa	164
47	Vera	163
48	Mamie	160
49	Ida	159
50	Katherine	157

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,298
2	John	1,441
3	William	1,330
4	Robert	1,009
5	Willie	850
6	George	611
7	Charles	576
8	Henry	485
9	Thomas	464
10	Joseph	362
11	Edward	300
12	Frank	297
13	Joe	287
14	Charlie	278
15	Walter	257
16	Fred	215
17	Jack	208
18	Clarence	207
19	Arthur	201
20	David	199
21	Albert	196
22	Richard	190
23	Samuel	189
24	Eddie	186
25	Johnnie	179
26	Roy	173
27	Cecil	163
27	Howard	163
29	Jessie	160
30	Eugene	152
31	Paul	150
32	Raymond	139
33	Jesse	132
34	Carl	131
35	Earl	129
36	Andrew	126
37	Leon	125
38	Ernest	122
38	Jimmie	122
40	Louis	121
41	Ralph	120
42	Harold	116
42	Herman	116
42	Oscar	116
45	Harry	107
45	Herbert	107
47	Sam	106
48	Marvin	104
49	Clyde	103
50	Floyd	100