Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1943

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,697
2	Betty	781
3	Linda	712
4	Barbara	705
5	Patricia	520
6	Dorothy	469
7	Brenda	431
8	Shirley	428
9	Martha	398
10	Annie	377
11	Carolyn	373
12	Margaret	366
13	Nancy	340
14	Elizabeth	324
15	Frances	294
16	Sandra	290
17	Helen	283
18	Joyce	277
19	Sarah	271
20	Judy	263
21	Peggy	214
22	Rosa	209
23	Doris	206
23	Virginia	206
25	Willie	186
26	Alice	177
26	Gloria	177
28	Ruth	170
29	Mildred	166
30	Lillie	164
31	Ruby	162
32	Carol	160
33	Louise	158
34	Evelyn	144
34	Patsy	144
36	Judith	138
37	Julia	131
38	Emma	129
39	Rebecca	127
40	Ann	125
41	Ethel	124
42	Sylvia	122
43	Catherine	121
43	Sara	121
45	Carrie	116
46	Thelma	115
47	Minnie	112
48	Jean	110
48	Margie	110
50	Vivian	106

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,139
2	John	1,190
3	William	1,186
4	Robert	1,037
5	Charles	721
6	Willie	681
7	Thomas	527
8	David	509
9	George	459
10	Joseph	372
11	Richard	355
12	Henry	329
13	Larry	328
14	Jerry	318
15	Edward	281
16	Bobby	267
17	Johnny	257
18	Donald	245
19	Jimmy	236
20	Joe	231
21	Leroy	208
22	Ronald	207
23	Billy	205
24	Walter	200
25	Samuel	198
26	Harold	195
26	Paul	195
28	Frank	194
29	Kenneth	178
30	Arthur	174
31	Harry	171
32	Roy	147
33	Albert	139
34	Ernest	136
35	Clarence	135
36	Eugene	133
36	Herbert	133
38	Eddie	132
39	Marion	131
40	Raymond	129
41	Tommy	128
42	Douglas	127
42	Jack	127
44	Johnnie	124
45	Fred	123
46	Roger	122
47	Michael	116
48	Charlie	115
49	Ralph	111
50	Nathaniel	110