Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,304
2	Betty	1,494
3	Shirley	1,365
4	Barbara	1,057
5	Dorothy	744
6	Margaret	671
7	Doris	620
8	Nancy	616
9	Annie	607
10	Peggy	603
11	Martha	491
12	Helen	459
13	Frances	455
14	Patricia	438
15	Carolyn	419
16	Joyce	406
17	Shelby	386
18	Ruby	376
19	Virginia	363
20	Elizabeth	339
21	Alice	332
22	Sarah	321
23	Mildred	311
24	Jean	292
24	Ruth	292
26	Evelyn	259
27	Sylvia	255
28	Ann	229
28	Edna	229
30	Louise	220
31	Patsy	219
32	Hazel	211
33	Lois	200
34	Janice	199
35	Thelma	195
36	Emma	190
37	Geraldine	184
37	Margie	184
39	Norma	173
40	Ethel	169
41	Carol	167
41	Linda	167
43	Clara	160
43	Gladys	160
45	Rachel	159
46	Bessie	158
47	Rebecca	156
48	Edith	151
49	Phyllis	149
49	Willie	149

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,942
2	William	1,815
3	Robert	1,570
4	John	1,361
5	Charles	1,268
6	Bobby	886
7	Thomas	647
8	George	635
9	Billy	603
10	David	551
11	Donald	548
12	Willie	506
13	Joseph	474
14	Joe	439
15	Richard	422
16	Jerry	402
17	Harold	364
18	Kenneth	359
19	Edward	356
20	Jimmy	345
21	Paul	341
22	Walter	325
23	Henry	312
24	Larry	299
25	Fred	242
25	Jack	242
27	Roy	236
28	Carl	230
29	Frank	229
30	Johnny	217
31	Charlie	205
32	Clarence	204
33	Ralph	197
34	Raymond	195
34	Samuel	195
36	Eugene	188
37	Howard	187
38	Ronald	185
39	Albert	170
40	Earl	167
41	Clyde	160
41	Johnnie	160
41	Tommy	160
44	Franklin	158
45	Marvin	157
46	Gene	149
47	Ernest	148
48	Jimmie	147
49	Arthur	146
50	Jesse	137