Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,674
2	Annie	939
3	Margaret	925
4	Ruth	828
5	Dorothy	751
6	Helen	667
7	Mildred	637
8	Virginia	568
9	Elizabeth	567
10	Ruby	543
11	Frances	535
12	Louise	471
13	Hazel	414
14	Edna	400
15	Ethel	398
15	Martha	398
17	Sarah	393
18	Gladys	384
19	Thelma	374
20	Pauline	348
21	Evelyn	334
22	Edith	333
23	Alice	322
24	Lillie	310
25	Marie	295
26	Bessie	287
27	Doris	283
28	Lillian	279
29	Lucille	276
30	Nellie	262
31	Minnie	253
32	Myrtle	248
33	Carrie	239
34	Willie	238
35	Mattie	235
36	Clara	234
37	Grace	231
38	Lucy	224
39	Bertha	223
39	Rosa	223
41	Catherine	221
42	Emma	218
43	Eva	215
44	Hattie	199
44	Jessie	199
44	Julia	199
47	Irene	198
48	Anna	193
48	Beatrice	193
50	Lois	188

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,964
2	William	2,081
3	John	1,783
4	Robert	1,251
5	George	786
6	Charles	717
7	Willie	622
8	Thomas	574
9	Joseph	528
10	Walter	470
11	Henry	442
12	Paul	424
13	David	421
14	Charlie	392
15	Edward	391
16	Clarence	322
17	Frank	321
18	Fred	299
19	Richard	282
19	Roy	282
21	Joe	269
22	Ralph	267
23	Howard	248
24	Jack	240
25	Albert	227
26	Raymond	225
27	Ernest	224
28	Samuel	222
29	Clyde	214
30	Carl	207
31	Harry	193
32	Harold	190
33	Arthur	181
34	Jesse	179
35	Earl	167
35	Warren	167
37	Marvin	158
38	Leroy	151
39	Eugene	150
40	Herbert	147
41	Floyd	142
42	Johnnie	141
43	Claude	140
44	Ray	139
45	Hubert	138
46	Lee	137
47	Jessie	136
48	Herman	130
49	Harvey	127
49	Lewis	127