Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Georgia, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,176
2	Betty	1,281
3	Barbara	954
4	Martha	649
5	Shirley	636
6	Annie	614
7	Patricia	593
8	Dorothy	575
9	Carolyn	464
10	Linda	437
11	Frances	364
12	Margaret	350
13	Joyce	347
14	Elizabeth	346
15	Sandra	328
16	Helen	325
17	Sarah	310
18	Nancy	300
19	Virginia	289
20	Doris	285
21	Gloria	279
22	Willie	269
23	Peggy	259
24	Ruby	257
25	Mildred	243
26	Louise	235
27	Alice	225
28	Evelyn	220
29	Sara	218
30	Brenda	190
31	Lillie	189
32	Mattie	188
33	Emma	177
34	Janice	173
35	Geraldine	168
36	Patsy	163
37	Carol	160
38	Juanita	157
39	Edna	154
40	Ann	151
40	Ruth	151
42	Jean	150
43	Vivian	147
44	Clara	146
44	Glenda	146
46	Bernice	144
47	Thelma	143
48	Catherine	142
49	Charlotte	141
49	Hazel	141

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,414
2	William	1,415
3	Robert	1,345
4	John	1,279
5	Charles	1,062
6	Willie	1,030
7	Thomas	586
8	George	576
9	Bobby	535
10	Jerry	487
11	David	424
12	Jimmy	414
13	Donald	407
14	Richard	398
15	Henry	395
16	Billy	374
17	Joseph	361
18	Joe	344
19	Johnny	325
20	Larry	322
21	Walter	305
22	Roy	287
23	Charlie	286
24	Edward	283
25	Eugene	273
26	Harold	255
27	Frank	237
28	Jack	230
29	Albert	220
30	Kenneth	216
31	Eddie	215
31	Ronald	215
33	Paul	212
34	Ralph	196
35	Tommy	195
36	Arthur	184
37	Johnnie	170
37	Raymond	170
39	Clarence	167
40	Melvin	155
41	Fred	154
42	Jimmie	152
43	Ernest	151
44	Marvin	146
45	Harry	145
46	Samuel	138
47	Howard	130
48	Leroy	127
48	Wayne	127
50	Franklin	125