Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,578
2	Margaret	927
3	Annie	883
4	Ruth	731
5	Ruby	622
6	Helen	619
7	Dorothy	565
8	Mildred	530
9	Elizabeth	529
10	Virginia	478
11	Frances	453
12	Louise	449
13	Edna	425
14	Gladys	383
14	Hazel	383
16	Sarah	363
17	Ethel	355
18	Thelma	352
19	Lillie	346
20	Martha	341
21	Pauline	332
22	Edith	329
23	Evelyn	325
24	Alice	299
25	Lucille	293
26	Bessie	291
27	Emma	264
28	Marie	261
29	Lillian	260
30	Mattie	250
31	Minnie	247
32	Willie	245
33	Rosa	241
34	Grace	239
35	Clara	235
36	Eva	231
36	Myrtle	231
38	Nellie	225
39	Bertha	224
40	Hattie	215
40	Irene	215
42	Lucy	210
43	Elsie	208
44	Carrie	205
45	Jessie	195
46	Catherine	192
47	Maggie	191
48	Beatrice	190
49	Ella	186
50	Doris	185

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,703
2	William	1,879
3	John	1,770
4	Robert	1,100
5	George	738
6	Charles	655
7	Thomas	552
8	Joseph	536
9	Willie	514
10	Henry	445
11	Charlie	413
12	Walter	392
13	David	351
14	Paul	347
15	Edward	346
16	Fred	313
17	Frank	304
18	Roy	264
19	Clarence	250
20	Ralph	242
21	Richard	235
22	Howard	224
23	Joe	222
24	Carl	221
25	Jack	219
26	Ernest	211
27	Samuel	209
28	Clyde	205
29	Albert	197
29	Arthur	197
29	Raymond	197
32	Harry	182
33	Earl	179
34	Jesse	178
35	Harold	175
36	Leroy	157
37	Johnnie	154
37	Marvin	154
39	Herbert	150
40	Lee	147
41	Herman	143
42	Eugene	137
43	Hubert	129
44	Lewis	127
45	Claude	125
46	Jessie	124
47	Ray	121
48	Daniel	113
49	Luther	112
50	Floyd	110