Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,616
2	Annie	692
3	Margaret	479
4	Ruth	465
5	Louise	448
6	Elizabeth	419
7	Frances	354
8	Dorothy	326
9	Ruby	310
10	Sarah	308
11	Helen	305
12	Rosa	298
13	Lillie	286
14	Mildred	282
15	Martha	273
16	Willie	262
17	Ethel	257
18	Lucille	231
19	Carrie	224
20	Evelyn	220
21	Virginia	216
22	Marie	213
22	Mattie	213
24	Hattie	212
25	Edna	209
25	Thelma	209
27	Emma	204
28	Bessie	203
29	Alice	199
30	Jessie	192
31	Gladys	186
32	Beatrice	177
33	Bertha	175
34	Minnie	172
35	Mamie	170
36	Julia	166
37	Eva	165
38	Lillian	162
39	Anna	160
40	Edith	159
41	Ella	158
42	Maggie	155
43	Catherine	154
44	Ida	150
45	Janie	145
46	Lula	144
47	Clara	143
48	Sara	140
49	Viola	137
50	Daisy	136

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,872
2	John	1,196
3	William	1,157
4	Willie	731
5	Robert	681
6	George	485
7	Henry	461
8	Thomas	399
9	Joseph	351
10	Charles	304
11	David	287
12	Edward	273
13	Frank	270
14	Walter	251
15	Samuel	218
16	Leroy	207
17	Charlie	186
18	Arthur	184
18	Clarence	184
18	Richard	184
21	Albert	182
22	Joe	180
23	Fred	170
24	Paul	161
25	Woodrow	159
26	Johnnie	158
27	Harry	154
28	Ernest	142
29	Eugene	137
30	Harold	136
31	Herbert	131
32	Sam	126
33	Eddie	117
34	Jack	113
35	Jesse	112
35	Marion	112
35	Roy	112
38	Lewis	103
39	Andrew	101
40	Jessie	100
41	Ralph	98
42	Luther	94
43	Benjamin	92
44	Carl	86
44	Raymond	86
46	Daniel	85
46	Isaac	85
46	Louis	85
49	Claude	82
50	Lee	81