Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,437
2	Betty	846
3	Shirley	597
4	Dorothy	482
5	Barbara	454
6	Annie	382
7	Margaret	353
8	Elizabeth	275
9	Frances	260
10	Helen	254
11	Martha	252
12	Sarah	248
13	Doris	235
14	Patricia	203
15	Lillie	202
16	Ruby	191
17	Mildred	190
18	Evelyn	189
19	Louise	188
20	Willie	184
21	Virginia	182
22	Rosa	178
23	Carolyn	177
24	Ruth	173
25	Nancy	168
26	Joyce	166
27	Peggy	163
28	Carrie	140
29	Alice	139
30	Thelma	138
31	Catherine	137
32	Emma	124
33	Jessie	121
34	Julia	119
35	Edna	118
36	Sylvia	114
37	Hattie	113
38	Ethel	108
39	Ella	105
39	Janie	105
39	Sara	105
42	Gladys	103
43	Mattie	102
44	Margie	99
45	Eva	98
46	Bobbie	97
47	Patsy	96
48	Ann	95
49	Minnie	94
50	Clara	93

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,562
2	John	863
3	William	849
4	Robert	807
5	Willie	592
6	Charles	505
7	Thomas	390
8	George	374
9	Joe	364
10	Bobby	331
11	Joseph	292
12	David	288
13	Henry	268
14	Billy	239
15	Edward	221
16	Richard	207
17	Frank	185
18	Harold	180
19	Donald	166
20	Walter	161
21	Leroy	158
22	Samuel	156
23	Paul	144
24	Jack	136
25	Jimmy	134
26	Johnny	129
27	Fred	124
28	Albert	122
29	Eugene	121
30	Jerry	118
31	Arthur	116
31	Harry	116
33	Franklin	113
34	Marion	112
35	Clarence	109
36	Herbert	108
37	Jimmie	104
38	Charlie	103
38	Kenneth	103
40	Johnnie	100
41	Carl	99
42	Roosevelt	98
43	Ernest	91
44	Eddie	89
45	Raymond	87
45	Roy	87
47	Melvin	86
47	Nathaniel	86
47	Olin	86
50	Benjamin	82