Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Louisiana, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,298
2	Betty	655
3	Shirley	611
4	Barbara	541
5	Dorothy	527
6	Gloria	309
7	Joyce	286
8	Patricia	249
9	Ruby	230
10	Margaret	225
11	Helen	224
12	Marie	206
13	Rose	193
14	Carolyn	186
14	Doris	186
16	Audrey	185
17	Beverly	180
18	Annie	168
19	Elizabeth	167
20	Ethel	165
21	Geraldine	160
22	Martha	158
23	Willie	156
24	Frances	155
25	Evelyn	153
26	Alice	149
27	Mildred	142
28	Anna	140
29	Virginia	136
30	Ruth	131
31	Lillie	129
31	Yvonne	129
33	Carol	128
34	Joan	127
35	Lois	125
35	Sylvia	125
37	Patsy	124
38	Bobbie	117
39	Edna	116
40	Lucille	113
41	Dolores	112
41	Emma	112
43	Louise	109
43	Peggy	109
45	Norma	102
45	Thelma	102
47	Jean	100
47	Jo	100
47	Juanita	100
50	Theresa	99

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	943
2	John	940
3	Robert	717
4	Joseph	688
5	Charles	633
6	William	435
7	Willie	364
8	George	328
9	Donald	327
10	Richard	279
11	Henry	262
12	Edward	248
13	Thomas	239
14	Louis	236
15	Frank	202
16	Bobby	196
17	Paul	194
18	Jerry	191
19	Joe	185
19	Raymond	185
21	Billy	182
22	Albert	181
23	Earl	175
24	Ronald	172
25	Clarence	166
26	Lawrence	158
27	Harold	157
28	Roy	155
29	David	154
30	Gerald	152
30	Walter	152
32	Leroy	135
33	Johnny	130
34	Kenneth	128
35	Larry	122
36	Ernest	119
36	Melvin	119
38	Eugene	115
39	Alvin	114
40	Arthur	110
40	Carl	110
40	Herman	110
43	Jimmy	106
44	Eddie	105
45	Allen	103
46	Alfred	99
46	Andrew	99
48	Anthony	96
48	Jimmie	96
50	Huey	95