Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1949

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,595
2	Linda	1,241
3	Betty	695
4	Patricia	687
5	Barbara	668
6	Brenda	602
7	Shirley	537
8	Sandra	503
9	Carolyn	458
10	Dorothy	395
11	Margaret	385
12	Nancy	357
13	Martha	353
14	Judy	346
15	Gloria	333
16	Elizabeth	307
17	Annie	282
18	Sarah	252
19	Janice	246
20	Joyce	245
21	Susan	243
22	Frances	218
23	Rebecca	207
24	Doris	205
25	Deborah	202
26	Peggy	195
27	Donna	192
28	Helen	189
29	Carol	183
30	Rosa	180
31	Virginia	179
32	Cynthia	172
33	Alice	168
34	Mildred	151
34	Wanda	151
36	Evelyn	148
37	Diane	145
38	Kathy	144
39	Lillie	143
40	Emma	138
41	Julia	134
41	Ruth	134
41	Sylvia	134
44	Willie	124
45	Catherine	122
45	Sharon	122
47	Phyllis	120
48	Joan	119
49	Ruby	113
50	Carrie	111

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,146
2	John	1,284
3	William	1,174
4	Robert	1,099
5	Charles	881
6	David	716
7	Willie	699
8	Thomas	647
9	Larry	596
10	George	461
11	Michael	455
12	Richard	438
13	Ronald	378
14	Joseph	368
15	Johnny	346
16	Jerry	340
17	Donald	329
18	Henry	325
19	Edward	285
20	Bobby	272
21	Jimmy	264
22	Kenneth	257
23	Samuel	242
24	Walter	230
25	Leroy	222
26	Harold	210
27	Roger	197
28	Billy	188
29	Daniel	182
29	Paul	182
31	Joe	181
32	Harry	178
33	Frank	175
34	Terry	174
35	Arthur	171
36	Ronnie	163
37	Eddie	156
38	Ernest	155
39	Danny	153
40	Eugene	149
41	Tommy	148
42	Nathaniel	145
43	Stephen	143
44	Wayne	140
45	Gary	134
46	Albert	133
46	Herbert	133
48	Clarence	131
49	Roy	129
50	Benjamin	125