Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,027
2	Betty	1,060
3	Dorothy	932
4	Margaret	571
5	Helen	556
6	Martha	449
7	Mildred	421
8	Virginia	395
9	Ruby	383
10	Frances	360
11	Ruth	347
12	Doris	289
13	Elizabeth	286
14	Annie	276
15	Evelyn	271
16	Thelma	258
17	Willie	254
18	Anna	223
19	Barbara	220
20	Jean	211
21	Edna	205
21	Louise	205
23	Gladys	202
24	Hazel	200
25	Wilma	194
26	Sarah	181
27	Juanita	176
28	Billie	169
29	Marie	164
29	Pauline	164
31	Peggy	161
32	Clara	160
33	Lois	157
34	Edith	155
35	Emma	153
36	Joyce	149
37	Mattie	146
38	Nancy	142
39	Alma	138
40	Katherine	136
41	Georgia	130
42	Alice	129
42	Bobbie	129
44	Bessie	125
45	Marjorie	124
46	Lillian	123
47	Ethel	122
48	Christine	121
49	Geneva	116
50	Eva	114

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,309
2	William	1,520
3	Robert	1,244
4	John	1,099
5	Charles	1,013
6	Billy	525
7	George	496
8	Thomas	453
9	Joe	372
10	Jack	335
11	Herbert	320
12	Willie	313
13	Paul	305
14	Edward	273
15	Roy	272
16	Harold	246
17	Walter	241
18	Frank	240
19	Richard	230
20	Carl	228
21	Bobby	226
22	Henry	218
23	David	215
24	Joseph	203
25	Fred	200
25	Kenneth	200
27	Raymond	196
28	Donald	191
29	Eugene	186
30	Clarence	179
31	Ralph	173
32	Earl	171
33	Howard	165
34	Albert	156
35	Ernest	141
36	Ray	134
37	Harry	129
38	Clyde	128
39	Charlie	123
40	Samuel	115
41	Herman	113
42	Arthur	112
43	Floyd	105
44	Jessie	99
45	Billie	97
46	Leonard	94
47	Sam	92
48	Curtis	86
48	Gene	86
50	Bill	85