Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,635
2	Annie	644
3	Margaret	525
4	Dorothy	513
5	Elizabeth	469
6	Frances	444
7	Ruth	443
8	Louise	435
9	Helen	415
10	Sarah	356
11	Virginia	300
12	Ruby	294
13	Lillie	289
14	Mildred	287
15	Martha	278
16	Ethel	267
17	Willie	265
18	Thelma	256
19	Rosa	247
20	Evelyn	246
21	Edna	241
22	Carrie	232
23	Mattie	203
24	Hattie	201
25	Alice	200
25	Marie	200
27	Julia	193
28	Emma	192
28	Gladys	192
30	Ella	190
30	Jessie	190
32	Minnie	186
33	Doris	183
33	Lucille	183
35	Bessie	180
36	Lillian	177
37	Sara	172
38	Catherine	171
39	Anna	165
40	Mamie	161
41	Grace	159
42	Beatrice	155
43	Bertha	152
43	Maggie	152
45	Lula	145
46	Edith	144
47	Janie	141
48	Daisy	139
48	Rebecca	139
50	Bernice	138

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,075
2	John	1,180
3	William	1,136
4	Robert	711
5	Willie	669
6	George	540
7	Thomas	450
8	Charles	448
9	Henry	403
10	Joseph	360
11	David	310
12	Edward	284
13	Frank	255
14	Samuel	233
15	Leroy	219
16	Walter	215
17	Joe	208
18	Ernest	206
19	Albert	188
20	Charlie	187
21	Clarence	183
22	Paul	179
23	Richard	178
24	Fred	164
25	Arthur	163
26	Eugene	158
27	Harold	153
28	Jack	144
29	Herbert	137
30	Marion	132
31	Benjamin	131
32	Harry	127
33	Clyde	121
34	Ralph	116
35	Johnnie	113
36	Sam	111
37	Roy	109
38	Lewis	103
39	Carl	102
40	Eddie	101
41	Luther	100
42	Raymond	94
43	Earl	93
44	Louis	90
45	Nathaniel	89
46	Jesse	88
47	Leon	87
48	Daniel	86
49	Melvin	83
50	Ben	81