Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1942

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,353
2	Betty	1,046
3	Barbara	1,030
4	Dorothy	774
5	Linda	746
6	Patricia	684
7	Martha	662
8	Carolyn	645
9	Shirley	622
10	Annie	615
11	Margaret	444
12	Joyce	395
13	Sandra	373
14	Elizabeth	361
15	Doris	345
16	Peggy	341
17	Sarah	334
18	Willie	333
19	Brenda	290
20	Helen	288
21	Nancy	285
22	Frances	264
23	Judy	257
24	Virginia	255
25	Ruby	254
26	Alice	252
26	Gloria	252
28	Glenda	249
29	Carol	235
30	Janice	233
31	Patsy	211
32	Lillie	197
33	Emma	192
34	Jo	189
35	Wanda	183
36	Mattie	181
36	Minnie	181
38	Mildred	175
39	Evelyn	170
40	Judith	168
41	Ann	166
42	Charlotte	165
43	Louise	161
44	Johnnie	159
45	Julia	154
46	Geraldine	152
46	Juanita	152
48	Catherine	149
48	Sara	149
50	Bobbie	148

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,737
2	William	1,433
3	Robert	1,325
4	John	1,321
5	Charles	1,166
6	Willie	968
7	Jerry	745
8	Billy	647
9	Thomas	588
10	Bobby	534
11	George	530
12	David	499
12	Jimmy	499
14	Donald	453
15	Larry	429
16	Joe	424
17	Johnny	385
18	Joseph	376
19	Richard	367
20	Henry	350
21	Douglas	320
22	Edward	312
22	Kenneth	312
24	Roy	267
25	Walter	264
26	Ronald	242
27	Paul	237
28	Frank	234
29	Arthur	226
30	Tommy	220
31	Eddie	216
31	Harold	216
33	Samuel	205
34	Raymond	196
35	Charlie	189
36	Clarence	174
37	Albert	172
38	Jimmie	170
39	Jack	169
40	Wayne	163
41	Eugene	160
42	Fred	155
43	Howard	152
44	Gerald	145
45	Johnnie	144
46	Carl	140
47	Ralph	138
48	Gary	136
49	Michael	134
50	Curtis	124