Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,693
2	Betty	1,213
3	Shirley	1,064
4	Barbara	701
5	Anna	453
6	Dorothy	409
7	Joyce	398
8	Wanda	354
9	Martha	346
10	Helen	343
11	Patricia	341
12	Doris	338
13	Nancy	315
14	Margaret	314
15	Norma	299
15	Virginia	299
17	Phyllis	278
18	Wilma	260
19	Ruth	258
20	Ruby	253
21	Elizabeth	250
22	Peggy	220
23	Lois	215
24	Carolyn	209
25	Frances	206
26	Mildred	201
27	Patsy	192
28	Alice	184
29	Juanita	183
30	Emma	180
31	Bonnie	175
32	Edna	162
33	Thelma	161
34	Jo	154
35	Carol	153
36	Janice	152
37	Ann	148
38	Geneva	142
39	Joan	141
40	Sarah	134
40	Sue	134
42	Loretta	133
43	Jean	132
44	Billie	126
45	Rose	125
46	Evelyn	124
47	Edith	123
48	Hazel	122
49	Janet	121
50	Margie	119

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,946
2	William	1,243
3	Charles	1,166
4	Robert	1,088
5	John	856
6	Donald	765
7	Billy	593
8	Bobby	501
9	Paul	418
10	George	411
11	Kenneth	407
12	Thomas	377
13	Harold	355
14	David	321
15	Joseph	318
16	Richard	305
17	Edward	276
18	Joe	274
19	Ronald	257
20	Carl	255
21	Raymond	216
22	Roy	211
23	Jerry	196
24	Earl	195
25	Jack	190
26	Ralph	184
27	Walter	183
28	Eugene	180
29	Frank	178
30	Henry	156
31	Jimmy	153
32	Ray	151
33	Franklin	146
33	Larry	146
35	Howard	144
36	Jimmie	136
37	Fred	128
38	Gerald	122
39	Willie	120
40	Norman	119
41	Albert	117
42	Ernest	116
43	Cecil	111
43	Jackie	111
45	Clarence	105
46	Bill	104
47	Gene	101
48	Lawrence	99
48	Marvin	99
50	Vernon	98