Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1935

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,412
2	Shirley	1,844
3	Betty	1,683
4	Barbara	1,021
5	Dorothy	807
6	Annie	689
7	Margaret	679
8	Doris	662
9	Peggy	660
10	Nancy	574
11	Helen	485
12	Martha	475
13	Frances	467
14	Joyce	402
15	Ruth	376
16	Mildred	368
17	Elizabeth	367
18	Ruby	362
19	Virginia	359
20	Carolyn	327
21	Sarah	303
22	Patricia	299
23	Evelyn	291
24	Alice	284
25	Edna	265
25	Jean	265
27	Clara	238
28	Hazel	233
29	Lois	212
30	Louise	210
31	Patsy	201
32	Emma	200
33	Thelma	193
34	Catherine	188
35	Rosa	187
36	Lillie	186
37	Ann	181
38	Gladys	179
39	Edith	175
40	Sylvia	174
40	Willie	174
42	Geraldine	169
42	Margie	169
44	Ethel	168
45	Bessie	163
46	Norma	162
47	Ella	160
47	Marie	160
49	Mattie	159
50	Rachel	158

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,849
2	William	1,814
3	Robert	1,576
4	John	1,321
5	Charles	1,143
6	Bobby	928
7	George	641
8	Billy	615
9	Thomas	586
10	David	584
11	Donald	520
12	Willie	513
13	Richard	470
14	Joseph	461
15	Joe	427
16	Harold	377
17	Jerry	361
18	Edward	343
19	Jimmy	335
20	Paul	333
21	Henry	327
22	Walter	309
23	Kenneth	307
24	Jack	305
25	Roy	285
26	Ralph	262
27	Frank	248
28	Charlie	235
29	Carl	227
30	Fred	222
31	Larry	211
32	Clarence	205
33	Raymond	195
34	Howard	194
35	Jimmie	187
36	Clyde	184
36	Ray	184
36	Samuel	184
39	Johnny	182
40	Earl	172
41	Ernest	168
42	Eugene	166
43	Marvin	162
44	Albert	161
45	Leroy	150
46	Johnnie	148
47	Arthur	147
47	Harry	147
49	Franklin	143
50	Ronald	140