Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,156
2	Betty	1,242
3	Barbara	765
4	Shirley	670
5	Annie	667
6	Dorothy	639
7	Martha	514
8	Margaret	389
9	Doris	345
10	Peggy	344
11	Willie	320
12	Sarah	312
13	Carolyn	311
14	Helen	309
15	Ruby	308
16	Patricia	296
17	Frances	281
18	Elizabeth	269
19	Joyce	250
20	Virginia	240
21	Louise	223
22	Mattie	214
22	Mildred	214
24	Evelyn	202
25	Emma	198
26	Ruth	195
27	Bobbie	185
28	Lillie	183
29	Edna	181
30	Nancy	179
31	Sara	176
32	Alice	164
33	Jean	161
34	Shelby	155
35	Ann	153
36	Jo	151
37	Juanita	150
38	Marie	146
39	Ethel	145
39	Minnie	145
41	Clara	144
41	Jessie	144
43	Nellie	143
44	Catherine	142
45	Gladys	141
46	Johnnie	136
47	Gloria	131
48	Bernice	127
49	Patsy	124
50	Carrie	122

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,256
2	John	1,249
3	William	1,222
4	Robert	1,112
5	Charles	1,083
6	Willie	924
7	Billy	675
8	George	516
9	Bobby	487
10	Thomas	485
11	Joe	465
12	Donald	380
13	Jimmy	366
14	Jerry	323
15	Henry	313
16	David	302
17	Edward	283
18	Joseph	264
19	Walter	252
20	Kenneth	242
20	Richard	242
22	Frank	222
23	Harold	218
24	Johnny	211
25	Eddie	206
26	Charlie	203
27	Arthur	182
27	Paul	182
29	Jack	174
30	Roy	173
31	Jimmie	172
32	Fred	171
33	Eugene	157
34	Gerald	148
35	Albert	145
36	Clarence	144
36	Samuel	144
38	Carl	143
39	Johnnie	133
40	Raymond	132
41	Howard	130
42	Ralph	127
43	Jesse	120
44	Curtis	116
44	Ronald	116
46	Ernest	112
47	Melvin	107
48	Tommy	106
48	Wayne	106
50	Cecil	105