Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1930

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,104
2	Betty	1,361
3	Dorothy	1,030
4	Helen	545
5	Margaret	512
6	Martha	443
7	Mildred	433
8	Virginia	402
9	Ruby	400
10	Frances	360
11	Ruth	342
12	Evelyn	302
13	Barbara	300
14	Doris	288
15	Annie	262
16	Elizabeth	250
17	Anna	242
18	Edna	238
19	Thelma	235
19	Wilma	235
21	Jean	232
22	Willie	230
23	Juanita	218
23	Peggy	218
25	Sarah	214
26	Louise	213
27	Hazel	205
28	Gladys	193
29	Nancy	183
30	Billie	179
30	Norma	179
32	Joyce	175
33	Clara	168
34	Lois	162
35	Pauline	156
36	Emma	151
36	Wanda	151
38	Marie	149
39	Edith	147
40	Katherine	143
41	Bobbie	141
42	Nellie	140
43	Georgia	139
44	Alice	135
44	Alma	135
44	Bonnie	135
47	Eva	133
48	Margie	131
48	Mattie	131
50	Christine	125

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,352
2	William	1,475
3	Robert	1,297
4	Charles	1,160
5	John	1,076
6	Billy	639
7	Thomas	519
8	George	505
9	Joe	428
10	Jack	334
11	Paul	321
12	Bobby	316
13	Willie	283
14	Harold	264
14	Richard	264
14	Roy	264
17	Edward	255
17	Kenneth	255
17	Walter	255
20	Carl	245
21	David	240
22	Donald	230
23	Henry	220
24	Fred	219
25	Howard	214
26	Earl	206
27	Frank	205
28	Raymond	192
29	Herbert	191
30	Eugene	184
31	Joseph	180
32	Clarence	172
33	Ralph	171
34	Ray	150
35	Clyde	144
36	Ernest	138
37	Albert	137
38	Herman	132
39	Harry	128
40	Billie	120
41	Charlie	118
42	Samuel	110
43	Arthur	109
44	Bill	106
44	Jesse	106
46	Jessie	103
47	Floyd	102
48	Jimmie	98
49	Claude	97
50	Jimmy	94