Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Louisiana, 1942

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,625
2	Barbara	820
3	Betty	663
4	Linda	535
5	Patricia	529
6	Dorothy	479
7	Carolyn	468
8	Shirley	423
9	Gloria	391
10	Joyce	332
11	Margaret	288
12	Sandra	274
13	Carol	259
14	Brenda	232
15	Judy	230
16	Elizabeth	224
17	Helen	220
18	Martha	208
19	Frances	207
20	Doris	204
21	Geraldine	195
22	Annie	194
23	Marie	184
24	Rose	180
25	Patsy	179
26	Virginia	178
27	Alice	174
28	Judith	165
29	Ruby	160
30	Beverly	155
31	Audrey	147
31	Janice	147
31	Joan	147
34	Jo	146
35	Mildred	145
36	Nancy	143
37	Elaine	139
38	Evelyn	132
39	Ann	130
39	Peggy	130
41	Catherine	128
42	Glenda	127
42	Willie	127
44	Rita	126
45	Anna	125
46	Ethel	124
47	Ruth	123
48	Sylvia	122
49	Yvonne	120
50	Bonnie	118

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,355
2	John	1,071
3	Robert	940
4	Charles	832
5	Joseph	772
6	William	662
7	George	446
8	Willie	434
9	Thomas	405
10	Donald	388
11	Richard	380
12	David	365
13	Edward	331
14	Henry	322
15	Jerry	321
16	Ronald	313
17	Frank	267
18	Louis	266
19	Paul	262
20	Larry	260
21	Kenneth	248
22	Gerald	227
23	Douglas	224
24	Albert	222
25	Harold	210
26	Raymond	205
27	Bobby	204
28	Roy	200
29	Michael	198
30	Lawrence	184
31	Billy	179
32	Johnny	178
33	Walter	172
34	Arthur	171
35	Joe	170
36	Clarence	167
37	Leroy	157
38	Alvin	148
38	Jimmy	148
40	Earl	147
40	Ernest	147
42	Melvin	137
43	Eugene	135
44	Samuel	132
45	Herman	129
46	Alfred	127
46	Eddie	127
48	Herbert	125
49	Leon	122
50	Freddie	119