Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,116
2	Dorothy	1,025
3	Betty	903
4	Helen	521
5	Mildred	515
6	Margaret	510
7	Martha	491
8	Frances	443
9	Virginia	430
10	Ruby	426
11	Ruth	389
12	Annie	319
13	Evelyn	303
14	Elizabeth	294
15	Doris	273
16	Anna	269
17	Louise	259
18	Willie	256
19	Gladys	231
20	Edna	226
21	Juanita	223
22	Sarah	216
23	Thelma	215
24	Hazel	196
25	Pauline	188
26	Wilma	185
27	Edith	182
27	Lois	182
29	Marie	181
30	Barbara	177
31	Jean	174
32	Mattie	170
33	Clara	168
34	Emma	156
34	Katherine	156
36	Billie	151
37	Lucille	148
38	Alice	145
38	Lillian	145
40	Geneva	140
41	Alma	132
41	Marjorie	132
41	Nancy	132
41	Peggy	132
45	Bonnie	131
46	Ethel	130
46	Georgia	130
48	Eva	127
49	Irene	125
50	Bessie	124

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,304
2	William	1,479
3	John	1,150
4	Robert	1,103
5	Charles	1,079
6	George	507
7	Thomas	485
8	Billy	414
9	Joe	373
10	Jack	334
11	Edward	321
12	Paul	308
13	Herbert	307
14	Willie	300
15	Roy	278
16	Carl	270
17	Richard	242
18	Frank	241
19	Henry	240
20	Kenneth	233
20	Walter	233
22	Harold	228
23	Ralph	217
24	Joseph	209
25	Clarence	205
26	Raymond	201
27	Earl	196
28	Fred	195
29	Howard	192
30	Donald	182
31	Eugene	179
32	David	172
33	Albert	152
34	Samuel	148
35	Bobby	142
35	Floyd	142
37	Clyde	136
38	Harry	133
39	Arthur	132
39	Charlie	132
41	Ray	129
42	Ernest	117
43	Jessie	99
44	Marvin	92
45	Cecil	91
46	Claude	88
46	Junior	88
48	Alfred	87
48	Bill	87
48	Herman	87