Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1939

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,075
2	Betty	1,195
3	Barbara	768
4	Annie	655
5	Dorothy	603
6	Shirley	590
7	Martha	573
8	Patricia	427
9	Carolyn	408
9	Margaret	408
11	Peggy	334
12	Sarah	318
13	Doris	313
14	Willie	307
15	Helen	285
16	Elizabeth	275
17	Frances	251
18	Joyce	247
19	Ruby	243
20	Virginia	235
21	Nancy	219
22	Alice	218
23	Linda	214
24	Mattie	204
25	Edna	199
26	Emma	196
27	Evelyn	191
28	Jo	174
29	Louise	172
30	Juanita	166
31	Lillie	165
32	Ann	156
33	Mildred	151
34	Carol	149
35	Bobbie	148
36	Clara	145
36	Sara	145
38	Gloria	139
38	Wanda	139
40	Ruth	138
41	Minnie	137
42	Ella	135
43	Ethel	134
44	Norma	133
45	Janice	132
46	Marie	131
47	Geraldine	129
47	Rosie	129
49	Julia	128
50	Sandra	127

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,281
2	William	1,200
3	John	1,170
4	Robert	1,163
5	Charles	1,041
6	Willie	901
7	Billy	665
8	Bobby	546
9	Thomas	517
10	Joe	487
11	George	482
12	Jerry	451
13	David	376
14	Jimmy	363
15	Donald	341
16	Henry	314
17	Joseph	287
18	Edward	284
19	Walter	253
20	Johnny	250
20	Richard	250
22	Kenneth	242
23	Frank	217
24	Harold	209
25	Roy	207
26	Charlie	205
27	Arthur	194
27	Paul	194
29	Eddie	190
29	Jimmie	190
29	Larry	190
32	Jack	180
33	Fred	177
34	Clarence	153
35	Eugene	152
36	Carl	151
37	Samuel	150
38	Albert	149
39	Gerald	142
39	Johnnie	142
41	Raymond	141
42	Jesse	140
43	Ralph	137
43	Ronald	137
43	Tommy	137
46	Wayne	132
47	Howard	129
48	Melvin	124
49	Curtis	118
50	Cecil	114