Popular baby names in Alabama, 1914

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1914 were Mary for girls (1,429 babies) and James for boys (1,222). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 35,862 babies born in Alabama in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1914

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: 19 babies, 11× the national rate
Evie: 28 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Mittie: 22 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Odell: 24 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Lue: 15 babies, 7× the national rate
Charlie: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Earline: 26 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Adell: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Era: 19 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Clyde: 15 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Boys

Will: 64 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Hoyt: 16 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Grady: 66 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Tommie: 45 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Travis: 22 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Fletcher: 15 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Ed: 40 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Mose: 15 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Wiley: 19 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Cleveland: 26 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	1,429	–	1
2	Annie	617	–	33
3	Willie	368	–	66
4	Ruby	332	–	24
5	Mattie	305	–	78
6	Ruth	296	↑1	5
7	Louise	254	↓1	17
8	Elizabeth	237	↑3	8
9	Ethel	229	↑3	21
10	Mildred	224	↓1	7
11	Lillie	221	↓1	74
12	Margaret	220	↓4	4
13	Sarah	219	↑6	47
14	Gladys	208	–	20
15	Frances	195	↑12	9
16	Minnie	195	↓1	67
17	Emma	188	–	39
18	Lucille	183	↑5	30
19	Bessie	178	↓6	55
20	Helen	172	↑10	2
21	Lillian	169	↑4	16
22	Dorothy	168	↑15	3
23	Evelyn	164	↑3	11
24	Jessie	164	–	64
25	Bertha	161	↑3	41
26	Martha	155	↑5	27
27	Alice	154	↓11	12
28	Beatrice	150	↑15	38
29	Myrtle	150	↑5	60
30	Lois	149	↑20	51
31	Clara	146	↓11	37
32	Edna	146	↓10	19
33	Marie	144	↓1	10
34	Carrie	136	↓16	91
35	Ida	132	↓2	49
36	Rosa	132	↓15	>100
37	Gertrude	131	new	32
38	Mamie	129	↑7	>100
39	Virginia	129	new	14
40	Hattie	128	↓11	97
41	Lula	128	↓2	>100
42	Fannie	127	↓6	99
43	Julia	126	new	42
44	Lucile	126	new	>100
45	Irene	125	↓3	22
46	Thelma	124	↓6	26
47	Nellie	122	↓12	61
48	Grace	119	↓7	25
49	Ella	118	↓11	72
50	Rosie	118	↓1	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	James	1,222	–	3
2	John	950	–	1
3	William	811	–	2
4	Robert	565	–	4
5	Willie	557	–	25
6	George	390	–	6
7	Henry	348	–	12
8	Charles	266	↑1	7
9	Thomas	265	↓1	11
10	Walter	226	↑4	10
11	Joseph	225	↓1	5
12	Frank	219	↓1	9
13	Joe	178	–	34
14	Fred	172	↑2	28
15	Charlie	158	↓3	65
16	Edward	155	↑1	8
17	Albert	149	↓2	15
18	Jack	140	–	27
19	Samuel	139	↑12	36
20	Clarence	133	↑1	22
21	Arthur	125	↓2	18
22	Roy	125	↑2	32
23	Richard	113	↑2	17
24	Johnnie	105	↑5	>100
25	Oscar	103	↑20	77
26	David	101	↑2	29
27	Sam	101	↓5	67
28	Eddie	99	↓5	>100
29	Woodrow	98	↓9	71
30	Ernest	97	↓4	38
31	Jessie	93	↑6	>100
32	Paul	92	–	13
33	Cecil	90	↑6	79
34	Earl	88	new	33
35	Ralph	86	↑1	21
36	Carl	85	↓2	24
37	Louis	85	↑1	20
38	Raymond	82	↑8	16
39	Howard	80	↓12	26
40	Otis	80	new	>100
41	Jesse	79	↓11	82
42	Leroy	76	new	60
43	Lee	73	↓3	84
44	Floyd	71	↓3	58
45	Homer	69	new	>100
46	Andrew	68	↑1	44
47	Curtis	67	new	>100
48	Herbert	67	new	42
49	Clyde	66	↓16	63
50	Grady	66	↓8	>100

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