Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,784
2	Betty	1,369
3	Barbara	940
4	Shirley	930
5	Joyce	498
6	Patricia	495
7	Nancy	453
8	Wanda	440
9	Dorothy	409
10	Anna	407
11	Martha	404
12	Doris	354
13	Helen	353
14	Margaret	338
15	Norma	331
16	Phyllis	327
17	Elizabeth	301
18	Carolyn	288
18	Ruth	288
20	Virginia	284
21	Wilma	279
22	Peggy	266
23	Janice	264
24	Ruby	239
25	Alice	226
26	Frances	218
26	Lois	218
28	Carol	217
29	Patsy	200
30	Linda	197
31	Mildred	195
32	Jo	184
33	Bonnie	181
34	Ann	176
35	Donna	175
36	Thelma	171
37	Edna	168
38	Sue	152
39	Joan	151
40	Juanita	149
41	Emma	145
41	Loretta	145
43	Janet	144
44	Jean	143
45	Shelby	141
46	Geraldine	136
47	Alma	135
48	Margie	133
49	Sarah	129
50	Evelyn	121

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,172
2	William	1,421
3	Charles	1,206
4	Robert	1,186
5	John	978
6	Donald	877
7	Billy	574
8	Bobby	573
9	Kenneth	485
10	David	443
11	Paul	440
12	George	434
13	Thomas	400
14	Ronald	382
15	Harold	360
16	Joseph	359
17	Jerry	336
18	Richard	309
19	Edward	283
20	Larry	260
21	Carl	255
22	Joe	239
23	Raymond	230
24	Roy	222
25	Jack	212
26	Henry	187
27	Walter	184
28	Earl	172
29	Jackie	171
30	Ralph	170
31	Frank	167
32	Jimmie	166
33	Jimmy	163
34	Eugene	160
35	Gerald	158
36	Fred	135
37	Johnny	132
37	Marvin	132
39	Ray	130
40	Wayne	126
41	Albert	124
42	Bill	120
43	Clarence	119
44	Howard	116
45	Clyde	115
45	Don	115
47	Gary	111
47	Gene	111
49	Norman	110
50	Ernest	106