Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Alabama, 1945

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,082
2	Linda	1,168
3	Barbara	975
4	Betty	944
5	Patricia	836
6	Shirley	670
7	Carolyn	633
8	Dorothy	626
9	Annie	590
10	Martha	532
11	Sandra	485
12	Judy	432
13	Brenda	414
14	Margaret	403
15	Gloria	339
16	Joyce	330
17	Elizabeth	320
18	Peggy	313
19	Doris	312
20	Janice	301
21	Carol	300
22	Sarah	279
23	Nancy	278
24	Willie	276
25	Helen	240
26	Frances	237
27	Virginia	236
28	Alice	220
29	Glenda	211
30	Ruby	206
31	Judith	192
32	Charlotte	188
33	Rebecca	182
34	Wanda	181
35	Jo	164
36	Mattie	156
37	Mildred	153
38	Evelyn	152
39	Lillie	150
40	Geraldine	149
40	Sharon	149
42	Ann	148
43	Catherine	147
44	Julia	145
45	Patsy	141
46	Emma	135
47	Johnnie	130
48	Donna	129
49	Edna	128
50	Bobbie	127

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,493
2	William	1,342
3	John	1,282
4	Robert	1,261
5	Charles	1,089
6	Willie	924
7	Jerry	697
8	Larry	573
9	Thomas	565
10	George	542
11	Jimmy	521
12	David	490
13	Billy	479
14	Richard	442
15	Donald	415
16	Johnny	411
17	Bobby	402
18	Joseph	386
19	Joe	328
20	Kenneth	327
21	Edward	311
22	Henry	295
23	Ronald	290
23	Walter	290
25	Michael	259
26	Gary	253
27	Roy	234
28	Paul	231
29	Frank	228
29	Harold	228
31	Eddie	227
32	Roger	202
33	Arthur	196
34	Charlie	189
35	Samuel	187
36	Tommy	178
37	Jimmie	165
38	Douglas	163
38	Raymond	163
40	Clarence	158
41	Albert	152
42	Eugene	150
43	Carl	148
44	Fred	142
44	Terry	142
46	Wayne	140
47	Jack	135
48	Melvin	133
49	Ralph	126
50	Curtis	124