Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,190
2	Betty	1,241
3	Barbara	800
4	Annie	732
4	Dorothy	732
6	Shirley	628
7	Martha	564
8	Margaret	415
9	Carolyn	382
10	Doris	381
11	Patricia	326
12	Sarah	324
13	Peggy	322
14	Frances	295
15	Willie	294
16	Helen	290
17	Ruby	274
18	Joyce	268
19	Elizabeth	266
20	Virginia	249
21	Alice	221
22	Bobbie	213
23	Mattie	211
24	Mildred	209
25	Nancy	202
26	Emma	201
27	Louise	187
28	Ann	179
29	Ruth	173
30	Lillie	172
31	Edna	169
32	Evelyn	165
32	Juanita	165
34	Sara	158
35	Ethel	157
36	Rosie	150
37	Clara	148
38	Jo	147
39	Gloria	144
40	Janice	142
40	Minnie	142
42	Bernice	141
43	Nellie	140
44	Bertha	136
44	Carrie	136
46	Patsy	135
46	Sylvia	135
48	Julia	131
49	Marie	130
50	Linda	126

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,246
2	John	1,180
3	Robert	1,168
4	William	1,136
5	Charles	989
6	Willie	828
7	Billy	676
8	Bobby	554
9	Joe	475
10	George	470
11	Thomas	469
12	Jimmy	405
13	Jerry	396
14	Donald	395
15	David	339
16	Joseph	315
17	Henry	309
18	Edward	270
19	Richard	254
20	Frank	243
21	Johnny	237
22	Walter	232
23	Kenneth	230
24	Eddie	218
25	Harold	212
26	Jimmie	197
26	Roy	197
28	Charlie	194
29	Paul	193
30	Arthur	180
31	Albert	174
31	Fred	174
31	Jack	174
34	Samuel	153
35	Carl	149
35	Howard	149
37	Johnnie	146
37	Larry	146
39	Tommy	142
40	Curtis	141
41	Eugene	137
42	Clarence	133
43	Ralph	128
44	Raymond	126
45	Ronald	122
46	Melvin	117
47	Leon	115
48	Jessie	114
49	Gerald	113
50	Douglas	107