Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1941

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,250
2	Betty	1,333
3	Barbara	1,304
4	Linda	1,107
5	Patricia	811
5	Shirley	811
7	Carolyn	750
8	Brenda	747
9	Nancy	718
10	Margaret	659
11	Dorothy	653
12	Joyce	616
13	Peggy	564
14	Annie	536
15	Martha	530
16	Doris	487
17	Judy	446
18	Elizabeth	420
19	Frances	413
20	Helen	392
21	Alice	384
22	Virginia	351
23	Janice	318
24	Judith	310
25	Sarah	309
26	Sandra	290
27	Patsy	281
27	Ruby	281
29	Carol	276
30	Sylvia	273
31	Rebecca	272
32	Ruth	271
33	Mildred	262
34	Evelyn	250
35	Gloria	240
36	Phyllis	231
37	Edna	218
38	Lois	211
39	Jean	207
40	Geraldine	196
41	Ann	193
42	Emma	182
42	Glenda	182
44	Clara	169
45	Janet	168
46	Edith	164
46	Julia	164
48	Wanda	160
49	Kay	158
50	Lillie	157

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	3,273
2	William	1,988
3	Robert	1,643
4	John	1,532
5	Charles	1,291
6	Jerry	888
7	David	762
8	Thomas	751
9	Larry	739
10	George	707
11	Bobby	681
12	Donald	594
13	Richard	591
14	Billy	557
15	Willie	531
16	Joseph	501
17	Kenneth	399
18	Jimmy	378
19	Walter	362
20	Harold	352
21	Henry	348
22	Edward	342
23	Ronald	333
24	Paul	329
25	Roy	306
26	Johnny	305
27	Joe	303
28	Frank	242
29	Ralph	229
30	Carl	223
31	Wayne	222
32	Samuel	209
33	Charlie	207
34	Raymond	203
35	Ernest	197
36	Clarence	194
37	Howard	193
38	Jack	188
39	Albert	175
40	Earl	171
40	Tommy	171
42	Eugene	163
43	Fred	159
44	Gerald	157
45	Jesse	156
46	Gary	152
47	Marvin	150
48	Johnnie	149
49	Arthur	147
49	Clyde	147