Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,666
2	Betty	1,325
3	Dorothy	1,095
4	Annie	819
5	Margaret	784
6	Doris	728
7	Helen	638
8	Ruth	569
9	Mildred	534
10	Frances	525
10	Ruby	525
12	Martha	454
13	Virginia	443
14	Elizabeth	420
15	Evelyn	388
16	Sarah	364
17	Edna	344
18	Louise	333
19	Hazel	331
20	Gladys	323
21	Alice	291
22	Peggy	289
23	Nancy	277
24	Thelma	265
25	Ethel	245
25	Lillie	245
27	Lois	243
28	Pauline	241
29	Clara	231
30	Barbara	228
31	Marie	226
32	Willie	223
33	Rosa	220
34	Ella	216
35	Jean	215
36	Emma	210
37	Edith	198
38	Nellie	194
39	Catherine	190
39	Lillian	190
41	Joyce	189
42	Lucille	187
43	Grace	179
44	Mattie	174
45	Irene	173
46	Bessie	172
46	Elsie	172
48	Bertha	171
48	Myrtle	171
50	Carrie	164

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,833
2	William	2,016
3	John	1,531
4	Robert	1,362
5	Charles	1,010
6	George	673
7	Thomas	609
8	Willie	546
9	Joseph	475
10	Billy	465
11	David	437
12	Jack	426
13	Walter	374
14	Edward	369
15	Herbert	364
16	Paul	352
17	Henry	351
18	Richard	337
19	Bobby	305
20	Fred	294
21	Ralph	290
22	Joe	281
23	Harold	279
24	Roy	274
25	Donald	263
26	Charlie	262
27	Clarence	256
28	Frank	254
29	Carl	237
30	Earl	236
31	Clyde	232
32	Howard	231
33	Samuel	221
34	Ernest	212
35	Raymond	188
36	Albert	187
37	Eugene	186
38	Ray	180
39	Jesse	178
40	Kenneth	177
41	Harry	176
42	Herman	156
43	Leroy	143
43	Marvin	143
45	Johnnie	139
46	Floyd	135
47	Arthur	130
48	Lee	127
49	Melvin	123
50	Hubert	122