Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,668
2	Annie	647
3	Dorothy	620
4	Margaret	540
5	Frances	428
6	Helen	404
7	Elizabeth	396
8	Ruth	395
9	Louise	389
10	Mildred	368
11	Sarah	318
12	Ruby	314
13	Virginia	294
14	Lillie	271
15	Martha	270
16	Doris	265
16	Willie	265
18	Rosa	250
19	Betty	248
20	Thelma	239
21	Gladys	233
22	Evelyn	231
23	Ethel	228
24	Carrie	220
25	Mattie	211
26	Edna	195
27	Alice	194
28	Emma	185
29	Catherine	181
30	Bessie	178
30	Edith	178
32	Lucille	177
33	Marie	176
34	Hattie	169
35	Anna	166
36	Hazel	163
37	Minnie	160
37	Sara	160
39	Julia	156
40	Jessie	155
41	Ella	149
41	Janie	149
43	Lois	145
44	Lillian	137
45	Bernice	136
45	Clara	136
47	Mamie	131
48	Beatrice	130
49	Geneva	128
50	Ida	125

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,836
2	William	1,129
3	John	1,031
4	Robert	752
5	Willie	653
6	George	497
7	Charles	420
8	Thomas	399
9	Henry	360
10	Joseph	332
11	Edward	259
12	David	255
13	Frank	214
14	Samuel	211
15	Leroy	198
16	Walter	190
17	Richard	189
18	Harold	182
19	Joe	180
20	Clarence	167
20	Eugene	167
20	Jack	167
23	Paul	164
24	Arthur	163
25	Ernest	161
26	Albert	160
26	Charlie	160
28	Fred	149
29	Marion	139
30	Harry	124
31	Johnnie	123
32	Ralph	121
33	Roy	117
34	Benjamin	112
35	Herbert	110
36	Raymond	105
37	Sam	102
38	Eddie	101
39	Carl	94
40	Louis	89
41	Howard	88
41	Lawrence	88
43	Calvin	87
43	Nathaniel	87
45	Earl	84
46	Clyde	80
47	Daniel	79
47	Leon	79
49	Lee	77
49	Lewis	77