Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1914

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	908
2	Annie	420
3	Ruth	285
4	Louise	276
5	Elizabeth	266
6	Margaret	241
7	Sarah	228
8	Helen	206
9	Ethel	195
10	Ruby	189
11	Willie	188
12	Frances	176
13	Carrie	175
13	Lillie	175
15	Lucille	171
16	Mattie	168
17	Rosa	166
18	Edna	163
19	Martha	162
20	Marie	154
21	Alice	151
22	Bessie	149
22	Hattie	149
24	Anna	147
25	Dorothy	145
26	Emma	139
27	Jessie	135
28	Gladys	132
29	Julia	131
30	Evelyn	128
30	Ida	128
30	Mamie	128
33	Eva	120
33	Minnie	120
33	Virginia	120
36	Viola	119
37	Ella	116
37	Mildred	116
39	Grace	113
40	Lillian	111
41	Bertha	109
42	Beatrice	105
43	Maggie	104
44	Pearl	103
45	Thelma	102
46	Lula	98
47	Rebecca	96
48	Geneva	88
48	Pauline	88
50	Janie	87

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,164
2	John	777
3	William	719
4	Willie	492
5	Robert	440
6	George	390
7	Henry	336
8	Thomas	262
9	Joseph	229
10	Charles	201
11	Edward	197
12	Frank	181
13	David	166
14	Walter	163
15	Samuel	143
16	Fred	126
17	Albert	124
18	Arthur	119
18	Joe	119
20	Leroy	118
21	Richard	116
22	Sam	115
23	Clarence	113
24	Woodrow	109
25	Charlie	105
25	Harry	105
27	Ernest	94
28	Herbert	91
28	Paul	91
30	Eugene	90
31	Harold	87
31	Marion	87
33	Eddie	75
33	Jack	75
33	Johnnie	75
36	Benjamin	74
37	Luther	69
38	Roy	67
39	Lewis	66
40	Daniel	65
41	Jessie	62
42	Andrew	60
43	Clyde	59
44	Ben	58
44	Louis	58
46	Lawrence	54
47	Ralph	50
48	Howard	48
49	Carl	47
50	Jesse	46