Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Alabama, 1948

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,075
2	Linda	2,046
3	Barbara	1,093
4	Patricia	1,058
5	Brenda	1,005
6	Betty	796
7	Shirley	710
8	Carolyn	685
9	Sandra	649
10	Judy	644
11	Dorothy	611
12	Martha	541
13	Annie	538
14	Janice	460
15	Margaret	436
16	Gloria	406
17	Peggy	393
18	Elizabeth	365
19	Joyce	342
19	Nancy	342
21	Carol	322
22	Glenda	315
23	Doris	299
24	Wanda	280
25	Sarah	278
26	Donna	268
27	Susan	264
28	Rebecca	254
29	Sharon	251
30	Frances	233
30	Virginia	233
32	Ruby	232
33	Alice	227
34	Charlotte	224
35	Willie	222
36	Jo	211
37	Deborah	207
38	Patsy	203
39	Beverly	191
39	Helen	191
41	Sherry	188
42	Emma	168
43	Geraldine	160
44	Catherine	157
44	Cynthia	157
46	Gwendolyn	155
46	Judith	155
48	Mildred	154
49	Cheryl	151
50	Ann	149

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,772
2	John	1,568
3	Robert	1,540
4	William	1,536
5	Charles	1,190
6	Larry	1,175
7	Willie	1,002
8	David	827
9	Jerry	792
10	Thomas	701
11	Donald	618
12	Ronald	600
13	George	571
13	Michael	571
15	Jimmy	557
16	Richard	498
17	Billy	483
18	Johnny	476
19	Bobby	466
20	Joseph	461
21	Kenneth	452
22	Henry	374
23	Edward	367
24	Gary	365
25	Joe	358
26	Eddie	303
27	Walter	298
28	Roger	288
29	Harold	279
30	Paul	278
31	Terry	275
32	Tommy	258
33	Roy	250
34	Danny	243
35	Ronnie	237
36	Samuel	226
37	Frank	223
38	Charlie	206
39	Arthur	205
39	Jimmie	205
41	Clarence	202
42	Raymond	173
43	Albert	165
44	Carl	161
45	Wayne	159
46	Fred	158
47	Jesse	154
48	Eugene	148
49	Curtis	147
49	Douglas	147