Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1942

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,634
2	Betty	716
3	Barbara	668
4	Linda	543
5	Dorothy	510
6	Patricia	491
7	Shirley	430
8	Margaret	387
9	Carolyn	381
10	Annie	380
11	Brenda	375
12	Martha	362
13	Nancy	304
14	Elizabeth	300
15	Frances	299
16	Sarah	267
17	Sandra	260
18	Helen	253
19	Joyce	238
20	Doris	222
21	Judy	217
22	Virginia	208
23	Rosa	192
24	Louise	180
24	Willie	180
26	Peggy	175
27	Mildred	165
28	Lillie	159
28	Ruby	159
30	Emma	157
31	Alice	150
32	Gloria	146
32	Ruth	146
34	Evelyn	144
35	Mattie	141
36	Rebecca	140
37	Judith	136
38	Carol	134
39	Sara	129
40	Patsy	126
41	Carrie	125
41	Minnie	125
43	Sylvia	122
44	Julia	120
45	Ann	116
46	Marie	113
47	Catherine	111
48	Ethel	110
49	Thelma	109
50	Hattie	104

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,001
2	William	1,129
3	John	1,107
4	Robert	964
5	Charles	734
6	Willie	658
7	Thomas	538
8	George	476
9	David	412
10	Joseph	355
11	Henry	335
12	Richard	325
13	Joe	297
14	Bobby	293
15	Jerry	291
16	Jimmy	270
17	Edward	265
18	Larry	258
19	Douglas	257
20	Johnny	239
21	Leroy	217
22	Harold	216
23	Samuel	211
24	Billy	210
25	Donald	208
26	Walter	205
27	Frank	183
28	Harry	163
29	Ronald	160
30	Kenneth	156
31	Paul	155
32	Ernest	145
33	Arthur	143
34	Carl	130
35	Marion	129
36	Albert	128
36	Eugene	128
36	Raymond	128
39	Herbert	121
40	Charlie	117
41	Melvin	116
42	Clarence	115
42	Fred	115
42	Roy	115
45	Tommy	114
46	Franklin	112
47	Jack	111
48	Eddie	110
48	Johnnie	110
48	Wayne	110