Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,811
2	Margaret	1,061
3	Annie	935
4	Dorothy	911
5	Ruth	893
6	Helen	792
7	Mildred	685
8	Ruby	637
9	Elizabeth	609
10	Virginia	603
11	Frances	512
12	Hazel	488
13	Louise	472
14	Edna	438
15	Martha	428
16	Sarah	408
17	Gladys	386
18	Pauline	385
19	Thelma	379
20	Evelyn	376
21	Edith	370
22	Ethel	364
23	Doris	349
24	Alice	323
25	Lillian	297
26	Lucille	287
27	Lillie	285
28	Myrtle	279
29	Marie	269
30	Willie	256
31	Mattie	255
32	Emma	252
33	Bessie	241
34	Irene	239
35	Grace	230
36	Catherine	228
37	Minnie	224
38	Nellie	220
39	Rosa	218
40	Carrie	215
41	Clara	209
42	Lois	206
43	Eva	202
43	Mabel	202
45	Lucy	200
46	Hattie	198
47	Beatrice	196
48	Elsie	194
49	Alma	192
50	Betty	191

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,926
2	William	2,198
3	John	1,699
4	Robert	1,193
5	George	833
6	Charles	791
7	Joseph	567
8	Willie	563
9	Thomas	552
10	Edward	450
11	Walter	438
12	Paul	421
13	Henry	418
14	David	384
15	Charlie	364
16	Fred	336
17	Richard	315
18	Clarence	295
19	Roy	287
20	Frank	275
21	Joe	268
22	Ralph	264
23	Howard	260
24	Ernest	253
25	Jack	251
26	Samuel	247
27	Arthur	243
28	Warren	239
29	Harry	230
30	Albert	228
30	Carl	228
32	Harold	222
33	Clyde	220
34	Earl	201
35	Eugene	190
36	Raymond	185
37	Jesse	162
38	Marvin	160
39	Johnnie	154
40	Claude	152
41	Luther	145
42	Herbert	144
43	Herman	141
43	Hubert	141
45	Jessie	140
45	Ray	140
47	Lee	126
48	Leroy	125
49	Lawrence	123
50	Benjamin	117