Popular baby names in Alabama, 1910

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1910 were Mary for girls (875 babies) and James for boys (486). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,694 babies born in Alabama in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in Alabama that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Claudie: 15 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Era: 24 babies, 8× the national rate
Jimmie: 28 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Mittie: 21 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Tommie: 16 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 56 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Eddie: 22 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Adell: 15 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Estell: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Pearlie: 28 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Will: 51 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Rufus: 33 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Emmett: 23 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jimmie: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Grady: 16 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Tommie: 17 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Jim: 43 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jake: 19 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jessie: 64 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Dave: 22 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	875	1
2	Annie	482	19
3	Willie	257	56
4	Mattie	232	60
5	Ruby	204	27
6	Ethel	197	13
7	Lillie	187	54
8	Ruth	168	5
9	Bessie	162	37
10	Elizabeth	146	7
11	Emma	145	34
12	Minnie	139	50
13	Louise	138	20
14	Bertha	130	33
15	Hattie	127	73
16	Gladys	125	15
17	Carrie	122	70
18	Fannie	116	78
19	Martha	113	28
20	Rosa	113	83
21	Alice	112	10
22	Lucille	109	31
23	Jessie	108	63
24	Sarah	107	40
25	Margaret	106	3
26	Pearl	105	39
27	Marie	104	9
28	Myrtle	104	43
29	Rosie	103	>100
30	Lillian	99	14
31	Clara	97	32
32	Gertrude	97	26
33	Nellie	96	51
34	Ida	95	47
35	Ella	91	62
36	Eva	91	45
37	Maggie	91	95
38	Mildred	90	8
39	Mamie	88	86
40	Edna	86	18
41	Lois	85	76
42	Susie	85	>100
43	Katie	84	>100
44	Beatrice	83	36
45	Evelyn	83	17
46	Alma	82	61
47	Lula	82	93
48	Frances	81	11
49	Irene	81	21
50	Velma	81	90

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	James	486	2
2	John	399	1
3	William	343	3
4	Willie	343	11
5	Robert	277	4
6	George	195	5
7	Henry	163	10
8	Joe	117	25
9	Charlie	113	34
10	Frank	106	8
11	Charles	98	7
12	Joseph	92	6
13	Walter	92	13
14	Thomas	87	12
15	Sam	77	40
16	Richard	73	21
17	Clarence	66	20
18	Fred	66	22
19	Edward	65	9
20	Eddie	64	59
21	Jessie	64	72
22	Jack	61	23
23	Albert	57	14
24	Lee	57	49
25	Arthur	55	17
26	David	55	30
27	Howard	54	27
28	Will	51	>100
29	Roy	47	29
30	Tom	47	82
31	Eugene	46	39
32	Ernest	45	31
33	Jim	43	100
34	Johnnie	43	74
35	Samuel	42	32
36	Louis	40	24
37	Andrew	39	42
38	Ben	39	79
39	Jesse	38	60
40	Lewis	37	65
41	Jimmie	36	>100
42	Leroy	34	50
43	Oscar	33	73
44	Paul	33	15
45	Rufus	33	>100
46	Carl	32	26
47	Herman	29	52
48	Curtis	27	>100
49	Nathaniel	27	>100
50	Raymond	27	19

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