Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,742
2	Betty	1,340
3	Barbara	1,006
4	Shirley	920
5	Dorothy	631
6	Peggy	465
7	Martha	458
8	Margaret	423
9	Nancy	416
10	Helen	365
11	Joyce	359
11	Patricia	359
13	Frances	286
14	Carolyn	285
15	Doris	281
16	Wilma	273
17	Virginia	272
18	Ruby	266
19	Elizabeth	257
20	Patsy	251
21	Wanda	247
22	Mildred	236
23	Norma	228
24	Evelyn	214
25	Annie	213
26	Anna	204
27	Shelby	195
28	Bobbie	192
29	Jo	184
30	Ruth	181
31	Alice	170
31	Ann	170
33	Edna	162
34	Sarah	160
35	Jean	158
36	Charlotte	146
36	Emma	146
38	Billie	144
39	Thelma	141
40	Juanita	133
41	Joan	131
41	Lois	131
41	Louise	131
44	Willie	130
45	Linda	121
45	Margie	121
47	Sylvia	120
48	Clara	119
49	Bonnie	116
50	Hazel	115

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,262
2	William	1,256
3	Robert	1,239
4	Charles	1,093
5	John	1,014
6	Billy	840
7	Bobby	740
8	Donald	464
9	Joe	441
10	Thomas	438
11	George	421
12	Jerry	358
13	David	352
14	Jimmy	338
15	Kenneth	322
16	Paul	316
17	Harold	275
18	Willie	264
19	Richard	263
20	Roy	260
21	Edward	251
22	Carl	232
23	Jack	230
24	Walter	221
25	Fred	187
26	Raymond	183
27	Larry	182
28	Frank	180
29	Joseph	178
30	Henry	171
30	Ralph	171
32	Johnny	164
33	Howard	150
34	Earl	148
35	Eugene	144
36	Wayne	142
37	Ronald	140
38	Clarence	139
39	Tommy	137
40	Albert	132
41	Jimmie	128
41	Ray	128
43	Don	119
44	Ernest	116
45	Jackie	115
46	Bill	111
46	Franklin	111
48	Clyde	107
48	Gerald	107
50	Arthur	104