Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,443
2	Dorothy	1,013
3	Helen	657
4	Margaret	655
5	Mildred	641
6	Ruby	507
7	Betty	493
8	Ruth	455
9	Martha	449
10	Virginia	424
11	Frances	422
12	Annie	385
13	Elizabeth	317
14	Evelyn	311
15	Anna	299
16	Gladys	285
17	Willie	282
18	Hazel	279
19	Edna	278
20	Louise	277
21	Thelma	256
22	Juanita	233
23	Sarah	232
24	Doris	226
25	Mattie	221
25	Pauline	221
27	Edith	207
28	Alice	200
29	Bessie	193
29	Emma	193
31	Marie	190
32	Katherine	175
33	Ethel	173
34	Clara	172
35	Lillian	171
35	Lois	171
37	Georgia	167
38	Geneva	165
39	Nellie	159
40	Lucille	156
41	Wilma	154
42	Jean	153
43	Minnie	152
44	Myrtle	146
45	Bertha	145
46	Nancy	144
47	Irene	141
47	Marjorie	141
49	Alma	138
50	Jessie	136

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,360
2	William	1,582
3	John	1,186
4	Robert	1,168
5	Charles	910
6	George	550
7	Thomas	449
8	Paul	359
9	Edward	343
10	Willie	334
11	Joe	313
12	Walter	303
13	Jack	279
14	Henry	256
15	Roy	248
16	Frank	246
17	Howard	235
18	Billy	231
19	Harold	230
20	Fred	226
21	Clarence	223
22	Carl	220
23	Ralph	211
24	Earl	200
24	Richard	200
26	Joseph	199
27	Raymond	187
28	David	184
29	Ernest	172
30	Eugene	171
31	Charlie	167
32	Albert	166
33	Clyde	164
34	Samuel	157
35	Harry	155
36	Kenneth	152
37	Arthur	122
38	Ray	118
39	Floyd	117
40	Jesse	116
41	Calvin	109
41	Clifford	109
43	Donald	108
44	Cecil	106
45	Luther	102
46	Herman	101
47	Claude	99
48	Jessie	96
48	Leonard	96
50	Lawrence	95