Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1930

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,396
2	Betty	1,166
3	Dorothy	864
4	Annie	815
5	Willie	467
6	Doris	466
7	Mildred	421
8	Margaret	419
9	Helen	415
10	Ruby	402
11	Martha	360
12	Louise	352
13	Sarah	339
14	Frances	331
15	Elizabeth	314
16	Mattie	283
16	Ruth	283
18	Evelyn	277
19	Virginia	275
20	Edna	262
21	Lillie	235
22	Gladys	208
23	Ethel	204
24	Clara	203
25	Emma	201
26	Juanita	195
27	Alice	187
28	Bessie	186
28	Minnie	186
30	Joyce	183
31	Marie	181
32	Catherine	177
33	Carrie	176
34	Bernice	175
35	Lois	173
36	Rosie	170
37	Jessie	169
38	Barbara	166
38	Billie	166
38	Fannie	166
38	Hazel	166
42	Nellie	158
43	Sara	157
44	Peggy	155
45	Thelma	150
46	Jean	145
47	Ella	143
48	Hattie	142
48	Lula	142
50	Johnnie	141

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,402
2	William	1,399
3	John	1,204
4	Robert	1,127
5	Charles	930
6	Willie	927
7	Billy	542
8	Thomas	527
9	George	521
10	Henry	347
11	Edward	345
11	Joe	345
13	Joseph	318
14	Jack	289
15	Walter	271
16	David	267
17	Frank	264
18	Bobby	231
18	Richard	231
20	Charlie	230
21	Fred	224
22	Clarence	203
23	Johnnie	201
24	Harold	196
25	Eugene	192
26	Paul	190
27	Roy	186
28	Albert	185
29	Jimmie	183
30	Howard	176
31	Arthur	174
32	Donald	172
33	Eddie	164
34	Raymond	158
35	Ralph	157
36	Herbert	149
37	Samuel	148
38	Earl	135
39	Kenneth	129
40	Jessie	124
41	Curtis	123
42	Carl	121
43	Cecil	120
44	Andrew	113
44	Marvin	113
46	Jesse	110
47	Ernest	108
48	Floyd	106
49	Ray	104
50	Earnest	100