Popular baby names in Alabama, 1912

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1912 were Mary for girls (1,041 babies) and James for boys (784). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 26,618 babies born in Alabama in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1912

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: 17 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Pinkie: 16 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Ludie: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Odell: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Era: 17 babies, 7× the national rate
Johnnie: 57 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Gussie: 40 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Rosie: 116 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Eddie: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Jimmie: 23 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Will: 44 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Jimmie: 60 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Tommie: 32 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Grady: 40 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Booker: 24 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jim: 56 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Dewey: 22 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Ed: 30 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Jessie: 86 babies, 5× the national rate
Roosevelt: 32 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	1,041	–	1
2	Annie	539	–	27
3	Willie	287	–	61
4	Ruby	269	–	23
5	Mattie	229	–	70
6	Ethel	212	↑1	18
7	Ruth	211	↑4	5
8	Lillie	199	–	67
9	Louise	191	↑3	17
10	Minnie	182	↓1	60
11	Bessie	175	↓5	43
12	Elizabeth	174	↓2	8
13	Gladys	168	↑6	19
14	Emma	160	↓1	35
15	Sarah	157	↑5	41
16	Margaret	155	↓1	4
17	Alice	150	↑8	11
18	Jessie	146	↑8	65
19	Lucille	144	↓2	32
20	Lillian	140	↑7	14
21	Fannie	139	↓7	87
22	Bertha	131	↑8	36
23	Mildred	130	↓5	6
24	Edna	129	↑7	16
25	Carrie	128	↓2	82
26	Helen	128	new	2
27	Ida	127	↑19	45
28	Martha	124	↑14	29
29	Hattie	123	↓1	90
30	Grace	121	new	24
31	Clara	116	↓10	34
32	Rosie	116	↑3	>100
33	Mamie	114	↓11	95
34	Beatrice	113	↑3	37
35	Myrtle	113	↓1	50
36	Frances	111	↓3	9
37	Hazel	111	new	25
38	Lula	109	↓14	>100
39	Vera	107	↑10	68
40	Marie	106	↓24	10
41	Thelma	106	↓1	26
42	Ella	105	↓10	69
43	Susie	105	↓14	>100
44	Rosa	104	↓5	94
45	Nellie	101	new	59
46	Eva	100	new	49
47	Evelyn	99	↓9	13
48	Laura	98	new	57
49	Dorothy	96	↓2	3
50	Inez	96	new	100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	784	–	3
2	John	602	–	1
3	William	589	–	2
4	Robert	406	↑1	4
5	Willie	376	↓1	22
6	George	309	–	6
7	Henry	234	–	12
8	Thomas	186	↑5	10
9	Charles	182	↑1	7
10	Frank	162	↓2	9
11	Joseph	156	↑1	5
12	Joe	140	↓1	36
13	Walter	139	↑1	11
14	Charlie	130	↓5	57
15	Woodrow	122	new	46
16	Arthur	108	↑3	15
17	Albert	103	↑9	17
18	Jack	102	↑2	28
19	Sam	100	↓4	63
20	Clarence	99	↑2	21
21	Edward	99	↓4	8
22	Fred	99	↑2	26
23	Richard	96	–	19
24	Roy	89	↑4	31
25	Jessie	86	↑2	>100
26	Samuel	86	↓1	30
27	David	83	↓9	29
28	Johnnie	83	↓7	>100
29	Ernest	80	↑3	32
30	Howard	77	↓1	25
31	Eddie	76	↓15	>100
32	Paul	69	↑3	14
33	Andrew	62	↓2	44
34	Jimmie	60	↑4	>100
35	Louis	59	new	20
36	Jim	56	new	>100
37	Jesse	55	–	74
38	Raymond	55	new	18
39	Oscar	54	↓5	73
40	Eugene	52	↓7	41
41	Ralph	52	new	23
42	Lee	50	↓12	78
43	Cecil	49	new	76
44	Clyde	48	new	65
45	Earnest	48	↓4	>100
46	Leroy	48	new	66
47	Tom	47	↑3	>100
48	Harry	46	↑1	16
49	Earl	44	↓9	34
50	Will	44	↓11	>100

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