Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,479
2	Betty	771
3	Dorothy	515
4	Shirley	488
5	Barbara	482
6	Annie	404
7	Margaret	345
8	Martha	327
9	Elizabeth	315
10	Frances	284
11	Sarah	269
12	Patricia	259
13	Nancy	248
14	Carolyn	233
15	Helen	223
16	Doris	206
17	Virginia	199
18	Rosa	195
19	Evelyn	187
19	Ruth	187
21	Louise	178
22	Mildred	177
23	Joyce	171
23	Ruby	171
25	Lillie	169
25	Willie	169
27	Peggy	164
28	Thelma	151
29	Carrie	144
30	Alice	138
31	Ethel	125
31	Shelby	125
33	Emma	119
34	Sylvia	118
35	Edna	116
36	Mattie	115
37	Catherine	114
38	Rebecca	113
39	Marie	112
40	Hattie	107
41	Janie	105
42	Julia	104
42	Sara	104
44	Ann	103
45	Margie	102
46	Ella	101
46	Gladys	101
46	Hazel	101
46	Minnie	101
50	Clara	97

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,662
2	John	989
3	William	903
4	Robert	848
5	Charles	579
6	Willie	550
7	Thomas	406
8	George	378
9	David	317
10	Henry	306
11	Bobby	305
12	Joe	299
13	Joseph	276
14	Harold	250
15	Edward	222
16	Donald	217
16	Richard	217
18	Billy	211
19	Jerry	197
20	Frank	186
21	Walter	184
22	Samuel	175
23	Leroy	166
24	Jimmy	145
25	Paul	144
26	Johnny	141
27	Jack	140
28	Arthur	137
29	Clarence	134
30	Larry	131
31	Kenneth	128
31	Marion	128
33	Ernest	123
34	Eugene	121
35	Charlie	118
36	Fred	116
37	Harry	111
38	Roy	110
39	Nathaniel	109
40	Albert	108
41	Johnnie	99
42	Eddie	98
43	Benjamin	92
44	Ralph	91
45	Daniel	90
45	Melvin	90
47	Carl	88
48	Earl	86
49	Leon	83
50	Herbert	82