Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,627
2	Dorothy	579
3	Annie	564
4	Margaret	491
5	Elizabeth	399
6	Frances	391
7	Ruth	377
8	Helen	368
9	Mildred	333
9	Sarah	333
11	Louise	298
12	Ruby	277
13	Martha	276
14	Doris	273
15	Betty	267
16	Willie	265
17	Lillie	261
18	Virginia	255
19	Ethel	235
20	Rosa	220
21	Evelyn	205
21	Thelma	205
23	Gladys	202
24	Carrie	199
25	Alice	190
26	Edna	188
27	Catherine	170
28	Jessie	166
29	Mattie	163
30	Sara	160
31	Bernice	159
32	Emma	154
33	Bessie	151
34	Hattie	148
34	Marie	148
36	Lois	143
37	Hazel	142
38	Minnie	139
39	Lucille	137
40	Lillian	134
41	Julia	131
42	Bertha	126
42	Edith	126
44	Geneva	125
45	Anna	124
46	Beatrice	119
47	Maggie	118
48	Rebecca	117
49	Ella	115
50	Ida	114

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,842
2	John	1,048
3	William	1,018
4	Robert	703
5	Willie	564
6	Charles	445
7	George	425
8	Thomas	379
9	Joseph	330
10	Henry	309
11	Edward	245
12	David	235
13	Frank	227
14	Walter	219
15	Leroy	192
16	Richard	183
17	Harold	179
17	Jack	179
19	Joe	175
20	Samuel	174
21	Fred	171
22	Clarence	170
23	Ernest	162
24	Paul	154
25	Arthur	152
26	Charlie	144
27	Eugene	141
28	Marion	135
29	Albert	126
30	Harry	121
30	Roy	121
32	Ralph	104
33	Johnnie	96
33	Nathaniel	96
35	Raymond	95
36	Louis	92
36	Luther	92
38	Clyde	87
38	Herbert	87
40	Carl	83
41	Jessie	82
41	Lewis	82
43	Benjamin	81
44	Sam	80
45	Earl	75
45	Eddie	75
45	Jesse	75
48	Floyd	71
49	Marvin	68
50	Calvin	67