Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1934

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,443
2	Betty	1,824
3	Dorothy	875
4	Barbara	862
5	Doris	744
6	Peggy	706
7	Annie	697
8	Shirley	694
9	Margaret	671
10	Helen	560
11	Frances	494
12	Nancy	450
13	Ruby	415
14	Martha	408
15	Mildred	395
16	Elizabeth	391
17	Joyce	380
18	Virginia	367
19	Ruth	350
20	Sarah	346
21	Evelyn	305
22	Edna	300
23	Jean	288
24	Alice	287
25	Carolyn	262
26	Patricia	260
27	Hazel	243
27	Lois	243
29	Louise	238
30	Thelma	231
31	Gladys	222
32	Clara	216
33	Lillie	206
34	Joan	203
35	Emma	197
36	Rosa	195
37	Ann	192
37	Ethel	192
39	Catherine	189
39	Ella	189
41	Geraldine	188
42	Edith	177
42	Willie	177
44	Patsy	176
45	Nellie	173
46	Minnie	169
47	Bessie	164
48	Marie	163
49	Rachel	162
50	Lillian	160

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,926
2	William	1,855
3	Robert	1,514
4	John	1,324
5	Charles	1,150
6	Bobby	886
7	Billy	626
8	Thomas	596
9	George	590
10	Willie	545
11	Donald	510
12	David	494
13	Joseph	446
14	Richard	402
15	Edward	390
16	Harold	381
17	Paul	360
18	Walter	359
19	Jack	335
20	Kenneth	331
21	Joe	319
22	Jimmy	305
23	Henry	293
24	Jerry	269
25	Frank	268
26	Charlie	248
27	Franklin	244
27	Ralph	244
29	Roy	241
30	Carl	237
31	Earl	221
32	Clarence	218
33	Fred	207
34	Samuel	206
35	Eugene	204
36	Johnny	191
37	Howard	186
38	Albert	173
39	Ernest	171
40	Clyde	170
40	Jimmie	170
42	Raymond	169
43	Ray	165
44	Jesse	150
45	Marvin	149
46	Larry	144
46	Leroy	144
48	Arthur	141
49	Ronald	132
50	Daniel	126