Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,916
2	Dorothy	1,089
3	Margaret	992
4	Annie	986
5	Helen	784
6	Ruth	759
7	Mildred	647
8	Ruby	632
9	Frances	605
10	Virginia	590
11	Doris	544
12	Betty	536
13	Elizabeth	531
14	Martha	443
15	Sarah	435
16	Louise	431
17	Hazel	420
18	Evelyn	403
19	Edna	385
20	Gladys	346
21	Ethel	341
22	Edith	337
23	Thelma	327
24	Alice	324
25	Lillie	316
26	Marie	289
27	Willie	287
28	Lillian	276
29	Clara	259
30	Pauline	256
31	Lois	247
32	Rosa	245
33	Mattie	239
34	Emma	238
35	Catherine	233
35	Lucille	233
37	Nellie	232
38	Ella	224
39	Myrtle	221
40	Minnie	218
41	Bessie	216
41	Irene	216
43	Marjorie	209
44	Nancy	202
45	Margie	200
46	Jessie	198
46	Lucy	198
48	Beatrice	194
49	Rachel	193
50	Hattie	192

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,991
2	William	2,227
3	John	1,684
4	Robert	1,374
5	Charles	852
6	George	792
7	Thomas	617
8	Willie	571
9	Joseph	534
10	Paul	441
11	Walter	428
12	Henry	420
13	David	411
14	Edward	389
15	Jack	345
16	Charlie	330
17	Fred	310
18	Frank	308
19	Richard	293
20	Clarence	281
21	Harold	275
22	Joe	268
23	Ralph	263
24	Samuel	262
25	Howard	259
26	Clyde	256
27	Arthur	250
28	Roy	247
29	Albert	239
30	Ernest	220
31	Carl	215
32	Billy	210
33	Raymond	208
34	Calvin	205
35	Earl	195
36	Jesse	181
37	Marvin	178
38	Eugene	173
39	Harry	172
40	Leroy	169
41	Floyd	164
42	Herman	160
43	Donald	154
43	Ray	154
45	Johnnie	141
46	Herbert	140
47	Hubert	139
48	Claude	138
48	Lee	138
50	Kenneth	136