Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Kentucky, 1941

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,700
2	Betty	977
3	Barbara	923
4	Patricia	735
5	Linda	658
6	Shirley	656
7	Joyce	531
8	Wanda	518
9	Carolyn	477
10	Martha	424
11	Nancy	414
12	Phyllis	387
13	Anna	379
14	Janice	376
15	Brenda	374
16	Judith	363
17	Margaret	357
18	Dorothy	332
19	Carol	317
20	Bonnie	303
20	Helen	303
20	Judy	303
23	Ruth	301
24	Elizabeth	300
25	Virginia	272
26	Peggy	271
27	Doris	265
28	Norma	250
29	Sandra	229
30	Janet	224
31	Alice	218
31	Wilma	218
33	Donna	215
34	Lois	204
35	Ruby	195
36	Patsy	190
37	Frances	186
38	Sue	178
39	Mildred	167
40	Charlotte	158
40	Joan	158
42	Jo	149
43	Juanita	147
44	Emma	146
45	Ann	139
45	Geraldine	139
47	Gloria	137
48	Marilyn	133
48	Sarah	133
50	Rose	132

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,166
2	William	1,425
3	Charles	1,162
4	Robert	1,138
5	John	1,023
6	Donald	738
7	David	576
8	Bobby	517
9	Billy	512
10	Ronald	503
11	Larry	486
12	Jerry	475
13	Paul	463
14	Kenneth	450
15	Thomas	446
16	George	437
17	Richard	362
18	Joseph	343
19	Harold	328
20	Roy	271
21	Carl	263
22	Edward	260
23	Joe	238
24	Raymond	232
25	Jimmy	203
26	Gary	202
27	Gerald	190
28	Michael	174
29	Jackie	168
30	Walter	166
31	Roger	161
32	Ralph	159
33	Jack	158
34	Henry	157
35	Frank	144
36	Earl	143
36	Marvin	143
38	Ronnie	142
39	Johnny	140
40	Wayne	135
41	Phillip	133
42	Clarence	131
42	Jimmie	131
44	Bill	128
45	Eugene	125
46	Tommy	122
47	Howard	119
48	Lawrence	118
49	Wendell	113
50	Ernest	110