Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1945

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,548
2	Betty	717
3	Linda	653
4	Barbara	629
5	Patricia	507
6	Dorothy	439
7	Shirley	423
8	Margaret	380
9	Carolyn	364
10	Brenda	362
11	Martha	332
12	Annie	330
13	Sandra	327
14	Elizabeth	288
15	Judy	286
16	Frances	284
17	Nancy	266
18	Gloria	247
19	Sarah	235
20	Joyce	226
21	Helen	222
22	Rosa	205
23	Doris	189
24	Virginia	183
25	Carol	180
26	Mildred	157
27	Peggy	150
27	Willie	150
29	Evelyn	144
30	Ruby	140
31	Alice	135
32	Louise	132
33	Lillie	131
34	Janice	129
35	Sylvia	127
36	Ruth	126
37	Ethel	125
37	Rebecca	125
39	Catherine	124
40	Judith	122
41	Emma	121
42	Julia	110
43	Hattie	109
43	Patsy	109
45	Minnie	108
46	Ann	105
46	Susan	105
48	Carrie	103
48	Donna	103
50	Rose	102

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,931
2	John	1,106
3	Robert	1,012
4	William	1,003
5	Charles	672
6	Willie	626
7	Thomas	491
8	David	483
9	George	461
10	Richard	404
11	Joseph	363
12	Larry	339
13	Henry	293
14	Johnny	289
15	Jerry	275
16	Jimmy	246
17	Edward	228
17	Leroy	228
19	Bobby	226
20	Donald	221
21	Michael	220
22	Kenneth	208
23	Harry	205
24	Joe	203
25	Frank	189
26	Harold	185
27	Billy	181
28	Walter	180
29	Paul	175
30	Ronald	173
31	Samuel	169
32	Ernest	139
32	Eugene	139
34	Eddie	137
35	Arthur	136
36	Albert	134
37	Carl	123
38	Tommy	122
39	Raymond	121
40	Charlie	117
40	Roger	117
42	Herbert	116
43	Clarence	114
43	Roy	114
45	Douglas	109
45	Marion	109
47	Benjamin	108
48	Daniel	106
48	Nathaniel	106
50	Jack	104