Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Georgia, 1942

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,314
2	Betty	1,275
3	Barbara	1,098
4	Linda	837
5	Patricia	757
6	Dorothy	665
7	Martha	646
8	Shirley	644
9	Annie	641
10	Carolyn	598
11	Sandra	593
12	Brenda	456
13	Margaret	429
14	Joyce	377
15	Nancy	375
16	Elizabeth	360
17	Sarah	340
18	Helen	331
19	Frances	321
20	Willie	297
21	Gloria	296
22	Peggy	292
23	Ruby	287
24	Doris	286
25	Virginia	279
26	Carol	260
27	Glenda	257
28	Judy	245
29	Mildred	239
30	Evelyn	233
31	Patsy	229
32	Janice	225
33	Alice	218
34	Mattie	217
35	Louise	211
36	Sara	207
37	Lillie	205
38	Ann	197
39	Joan	192
40	Juanita	182
41	Charlotte	172
42	Emma	170
43	Catherine	162
44	Judith	161
45	Marie	159
46	Rosa	158
47	Ruth	156
48	Sylvia	146
49	Johnnie	145
50	Bernice	143

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,782
2	William	1,572
3	Robert	1,507
4	John	1,419
5	Charles	1,203
6	Willie	1,198
7	Thomas	675
8	George	629
9	Larry	598
10	Jerry	597
11	Bobby	543
12	David	514
13	Jimmy	494
14	Henry	450
15	Douglas	410
16	Richard	403
17	Joseph	401
18	Billy	399
19	Johnny	384
20	Edward	368
21	Donald	363
22	Ronald	341
23	Walter	334
24	Joe	314
25	Charlie	296
26	Eddie	277
27	Roy	269
28	Kenneth	268
29	Tommy	235
30	Harold	232
31	Albert	226
32	Arthur	219
33	Frank	215
34	Paul	214
35	Jack	206
36	Raymond	204
37	Ralph	197
38	Samuel	184
39	Eugene	183
39	Wayne	183
41	Ernest	179
42	Clarence	176
42	Leroy	176
44	Michael	168
45	Fred	165
46	Melvin	160
47	Marvin	156
48	Harry	150
49	Curtis	149
50	Johnnie	146