Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1933

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,388
2	Betty	1,618
3	Dorothy	883
4	Barbara	729
5	Annie	726
6	Doris	717
7	Margaret	621
8	Peggy	598
9	Helen	528
10	Nancy	480
11	Frances	479
12	Ruth	441
13	Martha	426
14	Ruby	412
15	Mildred	407
16	Elizabeth	393
17	Joyce	381
18	Virginia	334
19	Sarah	330
20	Evelyn	313
21	Edna	280
22	Shirley	275
23	Alice	270
24	Jean	261
25	Carolyn	246
26	Thelma	242
27	Hazel	238
28	Lois	233
29	Gladys	230
30	Emma	221
31	Clara	217
32	Louise	215
33	Patricia	207
34	Rosa	181
35	Ethel	180
36	Edith	178
37	Pauline	175
38	Nellie	172
39	Lillie	171
40	Willie	169
41	Lillian	167
42	Margie	165
43	Bessie	164
43	Joan	164
45	Minnie	163
46	Patsy	158
47	Marie	156
47	Norma	156
49	Geraldine	155
50	Ann	154

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,614
2	William	1,835
3	Robert	1,450
4	John	1,373
5	Charles	1,155
6	Bobby	705
7	Billy	616
8	George	607
9	Thomas	552
10	Willie	511
11	David	462
12	Donald	439
13	Richard	423
14	Joseph	385
15	Harold	366
16	Jack	355
17	Henry	337
18	Edward	323
19	Franklin	309
20	Walter	298
21	Joe	297
22	Paul	291
23	Kenneth	286
24	Frank	274
25	Fred	247
26	Charlie	243
27	Roy	242
28	Carl	231
29	Ralph	225
30	Jimmy	224
31	Clarence	220
32	Jerry	212
33	Howard	204
34	Earl	193
35	Ernest	184
36	Samuel	181
37	Eugene	180
38	Raymond	179
39	Ray	174
40	Albert	172
41	Clyde	168
42	Johnny	161
43	Jesse	148
43	Leroy	148
45	Arthur	145
46	Herbert	142
46	Marvin	142
46	Melvin	142
49	Harry	135
50	Johnnie	134