Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Alabama, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,078
2	Betty	1,158
3	Barbara	817
4	Dorothy	663
5	Annie	654
6	Shirley	572
7	Martha	536
8	Patricia	511
9	Margaret	419
10	Carolyn	408
11	Doris	391
12	Linda	366
13	Peggy	335
14	Sarah	307
15	Joyce	304
16	Elizabeth	294
16	Virginia	294
18	Willie	291
19	Helen	281
20	Ruby	265
21	Frances	263
22	Alice	248
23	Mattie	205
23	Mildred	205
25	Nancy	204
26	Evelyn	189
27	Emma	186
27	Sandra	186
29	Gloria	181
30	Lillie	169
31	Louise	168
32	Juanita	167
33	Janice	163
34	Geraldine	162
35	Glenda	158
35	Ruth	158
37	Bobbie	157
38	Ann	155
39	Edna	152
40	Brenda	151
40	Carol	151
42	Ethel	147
43	Judy	145
44	Rebecca	144
45	Patsy	143
46	Charlotte	141
47	Sara	136
48	Bonnie	134
48	Wanda	134
50	Julia	131

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,284
2	John	1,266
3	William	1,264
4	Robert	1,199
5	Charles	1,080
6	Willie	859
7	Billy	614
8	Jerry	558
9	Bobby	517
10	Thomas	502
11	George	464
12	Jimmy	455
13	Joe	428
14	David	414
15	Donald	379
16	Henry	321
17	Joseph	305
18	Edward	304
19	Kenneth	282
20	Johnny	277
20	Richard	277
22	Walter	274
23	Frank	241
24	Roy	226
25	Harold	204
26	Eddie	200
27	Paul	198
28	Samuel	193
29	Arthur	190
30	Charlie	189
31	Larry	182
32	Ronald	174
33	Jimmie	169
34	Clarence	168
35	Eugene	161
36	Wayne	156
37	Carl	155
38	Raymond	153
39	Jack	150
40	Tommy	147
41	Fred	142
42	Howard	141
42	Jesse	141
44	Albert	140
45	Gerald	138
46	Johnnie	128
47	Ralph	126
48	Curtis	113
49	Franklin	106
50	Leon	105