Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1939

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,484
2	Betty	790
3	Barbara	559
4	Shirley	471
5	Dorothy	457
6	Annie	424
7	Martha	344
8	Margaret	342
9	Elizabeth	312
10	Carolyn	292
11	Nancy	272
12	Patricia	260
13	Frances	247
14	Helen	244
15	Sarah	232
16	Doris	202
17	Virginia	198
18	Rosa	197
19	Ruth	193
20	Louise	189
21	Lillie	180
22	Willie	173
23	Ruby	167
24	Joyce	165
24	Mildred	165
26	Peggy	163
27	Evelyn	160
28	Alice	157
29	Linda	155
30	Carrie	131
30	Emma	131
30	Rebecca	131
33	Sylvia	128
34	Thelma	126
35	Jessie	122
36	Hattie	119
37	Catherine	112
38	Ella	111
39	Ann	108
40	Julia	105
41	Sara	104
42	Edna	103
42	Gloria	103
44	Bessie	102
44	Mattie	102
46	Margie	101
47	Juanita	100
48	Ethel	98
48	Shelby	98
50	Clara	96

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,802
2	John	974
3	William	953
4	Robert	818
5	Charles	627
6	Willie	601
7	Thomas	427
8	George	416
9	David	363
10	Joseph	329
11	Bobby	320
12	Henry	310
13	Joe	293
14	Richard	260
15	Edward	249
16	Billy	240
17	Harold	227
18	Jerry	210
19	Leroy	199
20	Donald	195
21	Walter	177
22	Samuel	176
23	Paul	175
24	Johnny	171
25	Frank	169
26	Jimmy	159
27	Clarence	146
28	Larry	143
29	Jack	133
30	Kenneth	128
31	Arthur	127
31	Marion	127
33	Eugene	118
34	Albert	117
35	Charlie	115
35	Ernest	115
37	Fred	112
38	Harry	111
38	Raymond	111
40	Roy	109
41	Herbert	105
42	Johnnie	101
42	Ronald	101
44	Carl	97
45	Eddie	95
46	Jimmie	93
46	Leon	93
48	Daniel	92
48	Melvin	92
50	Nathaniel	91