Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,347
2	Betty	1,662
3	Barbara	1,323
4	Shirley	1,106
5	Dorothy	695
6	Nancy	675
7	Peggy	634
8	Margaret	619
9	Annie	602
10	Carolyn	545
11	Martha	541
12	Doris	525
13	Patricia	489
14	Frances	460
15	Joyce	431
16	Helen	420
17	Elizabeth	385
18	Sarah	365
19	Alice	329
20	Virginia	327
21	Ruby	323
22	Ruth	312
23	Shelby	304
24	Mildred	295
25	Sylvia	284
26	Evelyn	262
27	Linda	243
28	Janice	240
29	Jean	236
30	Patsy	235
31	Edna	233
32	Lois	228
33	Hazel	224
34	Ann	211
34	Carol	211
36	Rebecca	200
37	Geraldine	198
38	Emma	193
39	Louise	180
40	Catherine	173
40	Marie	173
40	Norma	173
43	Rosa	172
44	Thelma	168
45	Clara	166
45	Rachel	166
47	Margie	165
48	Phyllis	164
49	Edith	161
50	Sandra	160

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,885
2	William	1,912
3	Robert	1,514
4	John	1,399
5	Charles	1,177
6	Bobby	864
7	Thomas	661
8	David	649
9	George	646
10	Donald	578
11	Billy	571
12	Jerry	523
13	Willie	495
14	Richard	462
15	Joseph	445
16	Harold	381
16	Joe	381
18	Edward	357
19	Jimmy	355
19	Kenneth	355
21	Larry	344
22	Walter	314
23	Paul	310
24	Henry	297
25	Roy	270
26	Johnny	265
27	Carl	247
28	Fred	239
29	Jack	235
30	Ronald	231
31	Charlie	228
32	Clarence	215
33	Samuel	201
34	Ralph	192
35	Howard	189
36	Earl	183
37	Frank	181
38	Raymond	180
39	Ernest	174
40	Eugene	170
41	Arthur	164
42	Jimmie	162
42	Marvin	162
44	Wayne	161
45	Gene	156
46	Albert	154
47	Melvin	153
48	Jesse	150
49	Harry	149
50	Clyde	145