Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,257
2	Shirley	1,664
3	Betty	1,578
4	Barbara	1,023
5	Dorothy	779
6	Peggy	665
7	Margaret	604
8	Annie	594
9	Doris	580
9	Nancy	580
11	Helen	494
12	Frances	447
13	Joyce	423
14	Martha	418
15	Patricia	406
16	Carolyn	368
17	Elizabeth	357
18	Virginia	341
19	Ruby	333
20	Sarah	321
21	Mildred	319
22	Ruth	287
23	Jean	282
24	Alice	279
25	Evelyn	271
26	Edna	254
27	Emma	229
28	Sylvia	218
29	Lois	214
30	Louise	212
31	Hazel	210
31	Shelby	210
33	Thelma	200
34	Ann	194
35	Patsy	192
36	Clara	181
36	Ethel	181
38	Geraldine	180
39	Margie	179
40	Gladys	176
41	Marie	175
42	Edith	171
42	Nellie	171
44	Norma	168
45	Rebecca	167
46	Joan	160
46	Lillie	160
48	Willie	159
49	Jo	157
50	Rachel	154

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,856
2	William	1,778
3	Robert	1,435
4	John	1,338
5	Charles	1,132
6	Bobby	863
7	Billy	617
8	George	591
9	Thomas	588
10	Donald	534
11	Willie	504
12	David	502
13	Joe	480
14	Joseph	441
15	Richard	438
16	Jerry	378
17	Jimmy	370
18	Kenneth	350
19	Edward	338
20	Walter	320
21	Henry	317
22	Harold	313
23	Paul	310
24	Jack	305
25	Roy	266
26	Frank	254
27	Carl	240
28	Fred	233
29	Ralph	221
30	Charlie	214
31	Larry	209
32	Clarence	199
33	Howard	198
34	Franklin	194
35	Raymond	190
36	Earl	184
37	Clyde	181
37	Ernest	181
39	Ronald	179
40	Eugene	174
41	Jimmie	173
42	Johnny	170
42	Samuel	170
44	Albert	157
45	Jesse	155
46	Ray	148
47	Leroy	142
48	Harry	141
49	Herbert	140
50	Arthur	136