Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Alabama, 1944

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,080
2	Linda	1,171
3	Barbara	987
4	Betty	965
5	Patricia	756
6	Carolyn	659
7	Dorothy	656
8	Shirley	626
9	Martha	618
10	Annie	567
11	Sandra	500
12	Brenda	450
13	Judy	394
14	Margaret	377
15	Elizabeth	351
16	Peggy	341
17	Nancy	316
18	Doris	313
18	Joyce	313
20	Sarah	295
21	Willie	284
22	Carol	283
23	Glenda	271
24	Gloria	268
25	Janice	262
26	Helen	258
27	Frances	242
28	Virginia	235
29	Alice	226
30	Ruby	213
31	Charlotte	205
32	Judith	202
33	Rebecca	183
34	Mildred	174
35	Wanda	162
36	Ann	157
37	Evelyn	156
38	Emma	154
38	Mattie	154
38	Patsy	154
41	Jo	153
42	Lillie	150
43	Geraldine	147
44	Johnnie	145
45	Juanita	144
46	Louise	140
47	Bobbie	139
48	Edna	136
49	Bertha	135
50	Joan	132

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,650
2	William	1,416
3	Robert	1,381
4	John	1,325
5	Charles	1,126
6	Willie	969
7	Jerry	739
8	Thomas	587
9	Jimmy	545
10	Billy	539
11	George	529
12	Larry	520
13	David	495
14	Donald	477
15	Bobby	435
16	Richard	408
17	Johnny	400
18	Joseph	386
19	Joe	370
20	Henry	348
21	Edward	323
22	Kenneth	322
23	Ronald	315
24	Walter	303
25	Roy	268
26	Frank	251
27	Roger	246
28	Paul	239
29	Charlie	235
30	Tommy	222
31	Harold	212
32	Eddie	210
33	Arthur	204
34	Gary	201
35	Michael	187
36	Albert	183
36	Jimmie	183
38	Samuel	175
39	Clarence	167
39	Wayne	167
41	Jack	164
42	Douglas	160
43	Fred	148
44	Carl	145
45	Howard	144
46	Raymond	142
47	Jesse	137
48	Gerald	135
49	Johnnie	133
50	Curtis	128