Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,788
2	Betty	1,136
3	Barbara	957
4	Shirley	683
5	Patricia	615
6	Joyce	590
7	Linda	521
8	Wanda	517
9	Anna	435
10	Martha	424
11	Nancy	419
12	Phyllis	378
13	Margaret	356
14	Janice	343
15	Dorothy	341
16	Helen	337
17	Ruth	320
18	Carolyn	318
19	Doris	294
20	Judith	290
21	Norma	289
22	Elizabeth	284
23	Peggy	273
24	Virginia	260
25	Carol	258
26	Wilma	246
27	Brenda	238
28	Bonnie	233
29	Judy	216
30	Alice	215
31	Patsy	208
32	Ruby	205
33	Janet	202
34	Lois	194
35	Frances	189
36	Donna	183
37	Sandra	182
37	Sue	182
39	Juanita	171
40	Ann	167
41	Mildred	163
42	Joan	154
43	Jo	150
44	Edna	144
45	Jean	140
45	Sarah	140
47	Geraldine	139
47	Loretta	139
49	Charlotte	138
50	Emma	137

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,238
2	William	1,360
3	Robert	1,162
4	Charles	1,129
5	John	955
6	Donald	776
7	David	542
8	Billy	531
9	Bobby	499
10	Jerry	478
11	Thomas	461
12	Kenneth	446
13	Paul	445
14	Ronald	437
15	George	421
16	Larry	416
17	Richard	404
18	Harold	353
19	Joseph	338
20	Joe	276
21	Roy	261
22	Carl	260
23	Edward	251
24	Raymond	245
25	Jimmy	201
26	Jack	191
27	Ralph	188
28	Gary	182
29	Earl	178
30	Gerald	170
31	Walter	167
32	Henry	157
33	Johnny	154
34	Frank	152
35	Roger	150
36	Wendell	145
37	Jimmie	140
38	Jackie	137
39	Ray	134
40	Clarence	130
40	Eugene	130
42	Wayne	125
43	Phillip	124
44	Arthur	119
45	Michael	118
46	Howard	117
47	Marvin	114
48	Tommy	112
49	Ernest	110
50	Fred	109