Popular baby names in Alabama, 1913

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1913 were Mary for girls (1,125 babies) and James for boys (1,010). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 29,303 babies born in Alabama in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1913

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

Girls

Ludie: 17 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Pinkie: 16 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Evie: 19 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Adell: 18 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Jimmie: 35 babies, 7× the national rate
Era: 17 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Johnnie: 70 babies, 6× the national rate
Earline: 19 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Pearlie: 29 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Willie: 311 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Boys

Hoyt: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Will: 51 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Tommie: 38 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Grady: 58 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Major: 16 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 37 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Wilburn: 16 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Jimmie: 58 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Jeff: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Mack: 36 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	1,125	–	1
2	Annie	543	–	30
3	Willie	311	–	65
4	Ruby	284	–	23
5	Mattie	244	–	75
6	Louise	223	↑3	17
7	Ruth	219	–	5
8	Margaret	214	↑8	4
9	Mildred	209	↑14	6
10	Lillie	200	↓2	71
11	Elizabeth	199	↑1	8
12	Ethel	189	↓6	20
13	Bessie	187	↓2	47
14	Gladys	171	↓1	19
15	Minnie	163	↓5	63
16	Alice	155	↑1	11
17	Emma	155	↓3	38
18	Carrie	150	↑7	90
19	Sarah	145	↓4	43
20	Clara	143	↑11	36
21	Rosa	143	↑23	>100
22	Edna	136	↑2	18
23	Lucille	136	↓4	31
24	Jessie	135	↓6	61
25	Lillian	135	↓5	16
26	Evelyn	134	↑21	12
27	Frances	134	↑9	9
28	Bertha	129	↓6	39
29	Hattie	128	–	96
30	Helen	128	↓4	2
31	Martha	127	↓3	28
32	Marie	126	↑8	10
33	Ida	120	↓6	49
34	Myrtle	120	↑1	53
35	Nellie	120	↑10	58
36	Fannie	119	↓15	91
37	Dorothy	117	↑12	3
38	Ella	113	↑4	70
39	Lula	113	↓1	>100
40	Thelma	113	↑1	26
41	Grace	112	↓11	25
42	Irene	110	new	21
43	Beatrice	109	↓9	37
44	Hazel	107	↓7	27
45	Mamie	105	↓12	>100
46	Eva	103	–	50
47	Anna	102	new	7
48	Velma	99	new	89
49	Rosie	98	↓17	>100
50	Lois	97	new	59

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	James	1,010	–	3
2	John	784	–	1
3	William	671	–	2
4	Robert	449	–	4
5	Willie	438	–	24
6	George	345	–	6
7	Henry	236	–	12
8	Thomas	211	–	10
9	Charles	200	–	7
10	Joseph	196	↑1	5
11	Frank	190	↓1	9
12	Charlie	167	↑2	62
13	Joe	150	↓1	37
14	Walter	150	↓1	11
15	Albert	133	↑2	16
16	Fred	131	↑6	27
17	Edward	125	↑4	8
18	Jack	122	–	28
19	Arthur	116	↓3	17
20	Woodrow	116	↓5	44
21	Clarence	111	↓1	21
22	Sam	108	↓3	65
23	Eddie	106	↑8	>100
24	Roy	97	–	32
25	Richard	90	↓2	19
26	Ernest	87	↑3	34
27	Howard	85	↑3	26
28	David	84	↓1	29
29	Johnnie	81	↓1	>100
30	Jesse	77	↑7	79
31	Samuel	77	↓5	36
32	Paul	72	–	14
33	Clyde	70	↑11	64
34	Carl	69	new	23
35	Eugene	69	↑5	43
36	Ralph	69	↑5	22
37	Jessie	67	↓12	>100
38	Louis	65	↓3	20
39	Cecil	64	↑4	74
40	Lee	60	↑2	78
41	Floyd	59	new	58
42	Grady	58	new	>100
43	Jimmie	58	↓9	>100
44	Herman	55	new	53
45	Oscar	53	↓6	76
46	Raymond	53	↓8	18
47	Andrew	52	↓14	47
48	Harry	52	–	15
49	Jim	52	↓13	>100
50	Marvin	51	new	77

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