Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,831
2	Betty	1,333
3	Barbara	1,076
4	Shirley	915
5	Dorothy	603
6	Peggy	491
7	Nancy	485
8	Martha	443
9	Margaret	442
10	Carolyn	416
11	Joyce	388
12	Patricia	370
13	Helen	351
14	Doris	322
15	Wanda	318
16	Frances	293
17	Patsy	262
18	Virginia	261
19	Elizabeth	248
20	Norma	243
21	Linda	231
21	Ruby	231
23	Wilma	219
24	Anna	212
25	Mildred	205
26	Ruth	194
27	Alice	193
27	Annie	193
29	Evelyn	192
29	Jo	192
31	Shelby	173
32	Sarah	170
33	Edna	166
34	Ann	164
35	Bobbie	160
36	Janice	156
37	Lois	150
38	Charlotte	149
39	Thelma	145
40	Billie	143
41	Jean	139
42	Emma	138
43	Juanita	132
44	Sandra	131
45	Jane	128
46	Carol	125
47	Clara	124
48	Phyllis	122
48	Sylvia	122
50	Bonnie	121

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,411
2	William	1,326
3	Charles	1,217
4	Robert	1,192
5	John	957
6	Billy	835
7	Bobby	701
8	Thomas	511
9	Jerry	477
10	Donald	468
11	Joe	462
12	George	426
13	Jimmy	395
14	David	391
15	Kenneth	358
16	Harold	305
17	Richard	299
18	Paul	293
19	Roy	249
20	Willie	243
21	Edward	240
22	Jack	226
23	Carl	225
24	Larry	215
25	Joseph	213
26	Walter	208
27	Frank	188
28	Ronald	187
29	Howard	174
30	Raymond	173
31	Henry	167
32	Johnny	163
33	Fred	162
34	Ralph	160
35	Earl	158
36	Ray	146
36	Tommy	146
38	Wayne	145
39	Jackie	139
40	Eugene	135
41	Albert	131
42	Clarence	130
42	Don	130
44	Ernest	128
45	Jimmie	122
46	Gene	114
47	Eddie	112
48	Samuel	110
49	Marvin	106
50	Clyde	105