Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,569
2	Betty	811
3	Barbara	566
4	Dorothy	461
5	Shirley	412
6	Annie	402
7	Margaret	377
8	Patricia	372
9	Martha	339
10	Linda	320
11	Frances	306
12	Elizabeth	304
13	Carolyn	283
14	Helen	271
15	Sarah	269
16	Nancy	261
17	Doris	226
18	Virginia	203
19	Rosa	199
20	Ruth	196
21	Joyce	184
22	Ruby	178
23	Willie	175
24	Alice	169
24	Mildred	169
26	Lillie	164
27	Peggy	160
28	Brenda	153
29	Evelyn	144
30	Sandra	136
31	Carrie	132
31	Emma	132
33	Gloria	130
33	Louise	130
35	Rebecca	122
35	Sara	122
37	Patsy	119
38	Minnie	116
39	Sylvia	114
40	Judy	113
40	Mattie	113
42	Bessie	112
42	Thelma	112
44	Hattie	111
45	Catherine	110
46	Edna	109
47	Rose	108
48	Julia	107
49	Ethel	104
50	Ella	103

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,929
2	John	1,072
3	William	943
4	Robert	908
5	Willie	646
6	Charles	640
7	Thomas	482
8	George	412
9	David	411
10	Joseph	320
11	Henry	313
12	Bobby	307
13	Richard	294
14	Joe	281
15	Jerry	251
16	Donald	226
17	Edward	216
18	Larry	214
19	Billy	208
20	Johnny	201
21	Harold	196
22	Samuel	193
23	Frank	188
24	Walter	180
25	Leroy	172
26	Jimmy	170
27	Kenneth	157
28	Paul	149
29	Eugene	147
30	Clarence	131
31	Arthur	130
32	Harry	119
33	Raymond	118
34	Albert	117
35	Fred	115
36	Carl	112
37	Ernest	110
38	Jack	109
39	Charlie	105
40	Johnnie	104
41	Marion	102
42	Melvin	101
43	Nathaniel	98
44	Roy	95
45	Herbert	93
45	Ronald	93
47	Eddie	92
47	Franklin	92
49	Leon	90
50	Daniel	84