Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,548
2	Betty	788
3	Shirley	515
4	Barbara	510
5	Dorothy	503
6	Annie	400
7	Margaret	390
8	Frances	280
9	Sarah	279
10	Martha	276
11	Elizabeth	273
12	Doris	225
13	Helen	223
14	Patricia	210
15	Carolyn	209
16	Willie	202
17	Ruth	201
18	Nancy	196
18	Rosa	196
18	Ruby	196
21	Lillie	183
21	Mildred	183
23	Evelyn	180
24	Carrie	175
25	Louise	172
25	Virginia	172
27	Peggy	169
28	Joyce	146
29	Emma	141
30	Ethel	139
31	Mattie	136
31	Thelma	136
33	Julia	132
34	Catherine	130
35	Shelby	126
36	Sylvia	125
37	Alice	124
38	Bobbie	119
38	Jessie	119
40	Edna	118
41	Bertha	108
42	Bernice	107
42	Ida	107
44	Gladys	105
45	Marie	103
45	Minnie	103
47	Sara	102
48	Hattie	101
49	Edith	100
50	Rebecca	98

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,659
2	John	944
3	William	919
4	Robert	787
5	Willie	613
6	Charles	600
7	Thomas	397
8	Joe	360
9	George	345
10	Bobby	338
11	David	330
12	Henry	291
13	Joseph	279
14	Richard	249
15	Billy	229
16	Harold	222
17	Edward	214
18	Leroy	201
19	Donald	192
20	Frank	184
21	Samuel	182
22	Walter	162
23	Jerry	148
24	Arthur	142
24	Jimmy	142
26	Paul	140
27	Jack	136
28	Eugene	131
29	Kenneth	130
30	Marion	125
31	Harry	118
31	Johnny	118
33	Albert	114
34	Fred	112
35	Charlie	111
35	Ernest	111
37	Carl	110
38	Franklin	104
38	Herbert	104
40	Ralph	103
41	Larry	102
42	Clarence	98
43	Raymond	96
44	Roosevelt	94
45	Benjamin	93
46	Jimmie	91
47	Johnnie	90
48	Nathaniel	83
49	Eddie	79
50	Melvin	78