Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,015
2	Betty	1,266
3	Shirley	739
4	Annie	735
5	Dorothy	704
6	Barbara	617
7	Martha	467
8	Margaret	412
9	Doris	346
10	Willie	333
11	Frances	330
12	Peggy	301
13	Sarah	294
14	Helen	288
15	Ruby	280
16	Elizabeth	273
17	Carolyn	259
18	Joyce	256
19	Virginia	254
20	Mattie	250
21	Patricia	236
22	Mildred	226
23	Bobbie	215
24	Lillie	201
25	Evelyn	200
26	Louise	195
27	Alice	188
28	Edna	186
29	Clara	178
30	Emma	176
31	Nancy	173
32	Ruth	168
33	Ann	161
33	Juanita	161
33	Minnie	161
36	Sara	158
37	Ethel	151
38	Nellie	145
39	Jessie	144
39	Jo	144
41	Rosie	139
42	Catherine	136
43	Ella	135
44	Bertha	134
44	Bessie	134
46	Johnnie	132
47	Billie	128
48	Gladys	127
48	Norma	127
50	Hazel	126

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,201
2	John	1,139
3	William	1,137
4	Robert	1,108
5	Charles	1,006
6	Willie	870
7	Billy	706
8	Bobby	568
9	Joe	511
10	George	472
11	Thomas	444
12	Donald	349
13	Henry	307
14	Jimmy	295
15	David	293
16	Jerry	279
17	Edward	271
18	Joseph	265
19	Richard	257
20	Walter	254
21	Frank	238
22	Harold	208
23	Charlie	198
24	Jack	197
25	Jimmie	191
25	Johnny	191
27	Kenneth	189
28	Paul	183
29	Roy	182
30	Eddie	175
31	Clarence	170
32	Arthur	165
33	Johnnie	157
34	Fred	156
35	Howard	147
36	Carl	143
37	Eugene	142
38	Samuel	141
39	Albert	138
39	Ralph	138
41	Raymond	135
42	Franklin	134
43	Jesse	124
44	Leon	119
45	Cecil	112
46	Ernest	110
46	Roosevelt	110
48	Gerald	108
48	Tommy	108
50	Jessie	106