Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1941

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,925
2	Betty	1,099
3	Barbara	1,057
4	Linda	731
5	Patricia	725
6	Shirley	714
7	Carolyn	603
8	Nancy	523
9	Peggy	509
10	Dorothy	508
11	Martha	504
12	Joyce	474
13	Margaret	443
14	Wanda	434
15	Sandra	378
16	Judy	376
17	Brenda	358
18	Patsy	350
19	Virginia	318
20	Helen	304
21	Doris	279
22	Elizabeth	271
23	Frances	264
24	Wilma	241
25	Janice	234
26	Judith	232
27	Norma	231
28	Ruby	222
29	Alice	212
30	Jo	200
31	Carol	199
32	Mildred	197
33	Anna	194
34	Charlotte	189
35	Evelyn	187
36	Sarah	186
37	Phyllis	184
38	Bobbie	169
38	Bonnie	169
40	Ann	164
41	Annie	159
41	Gloria	159
43	Ruth	157
44	Edna	154
45	Glenda	148
45	Rebecca	148
47	Lois	135
48	Emma	125
49	Joan	123
49	Juanita	123

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,615
2	William	1,465
3	Robert	1,344
4	Charles	1,206
5	John	1,089
6	Jerry	763
7	Billy	725
8	Bobby	661
9	Thomas	603
10	Larry	541
11	David	535
12	George	469
13	Jimmy	453
14	Donald	441
15	Kenneth	435
16	Joe	423
17	Richard	360
18	Paul	359
19	Ronald	324
19	Roy	324
21	Harold	279
22	Edward	265
22	Willie	265
24	Carl	243
25	Walter	217
26	Johnny	215
27	Joseph	204
28	Tommy	198
29	Jack	196
30	Ralph	193
31	Frank	183
32	Henry	182
33	Raymond	169
34	Wayne	166
35	Fred	165
36	Howard	161
37	Earl	158
38	Albert	156
39	Gary	153
40	Jackie	151
41	Gerald	143
42	Don	141
43	Samuel	138
44	Eddie	135
45	Clarence	134
46	Ronnie	130
47	Ray	129
48	Ernest	123
49	Franklin	121
50	Eugene	118