Popular baby names in Alabama, 1911

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1911 were Mary for girls (804 babies) and James for boys (468). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,243 babies born in Alabama in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1911

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

Girls

Pinkie: 16 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Myrtice: 15 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Estell: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Evie: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Johnnie: 44 babies, 6× the national rate
Pearlie: 27 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Jimmie: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Willie: 230 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Mattie: 209 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Rosie: 85 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 15 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Grady: 30 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Johnie: 27 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Will: 33 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Jimmie: 34 babies, 5× the national rate
Eddie: 68 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Johnnie: 59 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Willie: 300 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Tommie: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Dave: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	804	–	1
2	Annie	380	–	24
3	Willie	230	–	61
4	Ruby	212	↑1	22
5	Mattie	209	↓1	65
6	Bessie	161	↑3	40
7	Ethel	161	↓1	15
8	Lillie	158	↓1	60
9	Minnie	150	↑3	52
10	Elizabeth	149	–	7
11	Ruth	149	↓3	5
12	Louise	146	↑1	19
13	Emma	126	↓2	35
14	Fannie	120	↑4	88
15	Margaret	119	↑10	3
16	Marie	117	↑11	9
17	Lucille	108	↑5	32
18	Mildred	107	↑20	8
19	Gladys	106	↓3	18
20	Sarah	106	↑4	42
21	Clara	103	↑10	33
22	Mamie	101	↑17	89
23	Carrie	100	↓6	78
24	Lula	100	↑23	94
25	Alice	99	↓4	11
26	Jessie	97	↓3	66
27	Lillian	97	↑3	13
28	Hattie	96	↓13	86
29	Susie	94	↑13	>100
30	Bertha	91	↓16	36
31	Edna	91	↑9	17
32	Ella	87	↑3	63
33	Frances	87	↑15	10
34	Myrtle	87	↓6	50
35	Rosie	85	↓6	>100
36	Cora	81	new	91
37	Beatrice	80	↑7	37
38	Evelyn	80	↑7	16
39	Rosa	80	↓19	92
40	Thelma	80	new	27
41	Gertrude	78	↓9	30
42	Martha	78	↓23	28
43	Irene	77	↑6	21
44	Julia	76	new	44
45	Maggie	76	↓8	>100
46	Ida	74	↓12	45
47	Dorothy	73	new	4
48	Lois	73	↓7	68
49	Vera	73	new	67
50	Anna	72	new	6

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	468	–	3
2	John	406	–	1
3	William	353	–	2
4	Willie	300	–	14
5	Robert	249	–	5
6	George	165	–	4
7	Henry	133	–	11
8	Frank	105	↑2	8
9	Charlie	104	–	45
10	Charles	100	↑1	7
11	Joe	89	↓3	29
12	Joseph	88	–	6
13	Thomas	83	↑1	10
14	Walter	81	↓1	12
15	Sam	70	–	47
16	Eddie	68	↑4	78
17	Edward	68	↑2	9
18	David	64	↑8	27
19	Arthur	62	↑6	18
20	Jack	61	↑2	25
21	Johnnie	59	↑13	90
22	Clarence	58	↓5	23
23	Richard	58	↓7	20
24	Fred	53	↓6	22
25	Samuel	53	↑10	30
26	Albert	52	↓3	15
27	Jessie	52	↓6	79
28	Roy	48	↑1	31
29	Howard	47	↓2	28
30	Lee	46	↓6	67
31	Andrew	43	↑6	42
32	Ernest	43	–	32
33	Eugene	39	↓2	43
34	Oscar	37	↑9	68
35	Paul	36	↑9	17
36	Homer	34	new	95
37	Jesse	34	↑2	72
38	Jimmie	34	↑3	>100
39	Will	33	↓11	>100
40	Earl	32	new	34
41	Earnest	32	new	>100
42	Luther	32	new	100
43	Grady	30	new	>100
44	Herman	30	↑3	49
45	Leonard	30	new	46
46	Curtis	29	↑2	>100
47	Daniel	29	new	53
48	Floyd	29	new	57
49	Harry	29	new	13
50	Tom	29	↓20	>100

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