Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1915

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,098
2	Annie	498
3	Ruth	345
4	Louise	321
5	Elizabeth	312
6	Margaret	285
7	Sarah	263
8	Ruby	262
9	Frances	243
10	Lillie	220
11	Carrie	210
11	Helen	210
13	Dorothy	204
14	Willie	199
15	Rosa	198
16	Ethel	190
17	Hattie	184
18	Martha	181
19	Mattie	180
20	Bessie	164
20	Evelyn	164
22	Julia	162
23	Alice	161
23	Edna	161
25	Emma	155
26	Gladys	153
27	Anna	152
27	Maggie	152
29	Lucille	151
30	Virginia	148
31	Viola	146
32	Mildred	145
33	Lillian	143
34	Bertha	141
35	Mamie	140
35	Marie	140
37	Jessie	138
37	Minnie	138
39	Grace	133
40	Thelma	132
41	Beatrice	129
42	Geneva	128
42	Rebecca	128
44	Edith	123
45	Sara	118
46	Ida	111
47	Janie	105
48	Fannie	102
49	Daisy	101
49	Lula	101

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,414
2	John	953
3	William	827
4	Willie	555
5	Robert	509
6	George	416
7	Thomas	346
8	Henry	345
9	Joseph	246
10	Charles	241
11	Walter	192
12	Frank	186
13	Edward	183
14	David	182
15	Joe	164
16	Fred	155
16	Samuel	155
18	Arthur	149
19	Clarence	136
20	Woodrow	135
21	Richard	133
22	Leroy	132
23	Paul	126
24	Albert	123
25	Charlie	121
26	Ernest	120
27	Eugene	101
28	Harold	100
28	Herbert	100
30	Johnnie	96
31	Roy	95
32	Harry	93
33	Sam	92
34	Jack	91
35	Benjamin	84
36	Daniel	80
37	Ben	79
37	Lewis	79
37	Luther	79
40	Jessie	76
41	Marion	74
41	Ralph	74
43	Lee	72
44	Eddie	71
45	Jesse	70
46	Andrew	69
47	Lawrence	68
48	Carl	66
49	Nathaniel	64
50	Leon	59