Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,150
2	Dorothy	963
3	Margaret	605
4	Betty	582
5	Mildred	539
6	Helen	521
7	Martha	505
8	Ruby	460
9	Virginia	431
10	Frances	417
11	Ruth	389
12	Annie	369
13	Elizabeth	317
14	Evelyn	314
15	Louise	273
16	Thelma	256
16	Willie	256
18	Gladys	254
19	Anna	253
20	Edna	240
20	Sarah	240
22	Hazel	238
23	Doris	216
23	Edith	216
25	Juanita	209
26	Pauline	200
27	Marie	191
28	Clara	189
29	Jean	187
30	Mattie	173
31	Lillian	171
31	Lois	171
33	Wilma	169
34	Emma	165
35	Alice	163
36	Ethel	154
37	Katherine	152
38	Jessie	150
39	Bessie	144
40	Geneva	143
40	Nancy	143
42	Minnie	139
43	Irene	137
43	Nellie	137
45	Eva	133
46	Marjorie	131
47	Alma	129
47	Lillie	129
49	Myrtle	125
50	Lucille	122

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,467
2	William	1,552
3	John	1,168
4	Robert	1,135
5	Charles	914
6	George	582
7	Thomas	481
8	Joe	342
9	Paul	320
10	Willie	313
11	Jack	305
12	Edward	301
13	Walter	268
14	Roy	266
15	Harold	262
16	Billy	245
17	Henry	224
18	Carl	218
19	Fred	213
20	Frank	212
21	Earl	211
22	Howard	204
22	Joseph	204
24	Ralph	193
25	Richard	191
26	Clarence	187
27	Raymond	185
28	Albert	181
29	Eugene	174
30	Kenneth	172
31	David	170
32	Ernest	159
33	Samuel	151
34	Floyd	141
35	Clyde	138
36	Ray	137
37	Charlie	132
38	Arthur	129
39	Herbert	120
40	Harry	107
41	Jesse	103
42	Louis	101
43	Herman	100
44	Claude	98
44	Elmer	98
46	Lawrence	96
47	Calvin	93
47	Cecil	93
49	Donald	91
50	Hugh	90