Popular baby names in Alabama, 1916

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,722 babies) and James for boys (1,658). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 47,026 babies born in Alabama in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1916

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

Girls

Voncile: 15 babies, 25.2× the national rate
Savannah: 16 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Ceola: 15 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Odell: 35 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Idell: 22 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Ludie: 16 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Pinkie: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Johnie: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Era: 28 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Pearlie: 45 babies, 6.7× the national rate

Boys

Judge: 16 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Grady: 103 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Mose: 26 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Houston: 27 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Dock: 19 babies, 6.5× the national rate
King: 15 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jeff: 26 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Edd: 15 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Hoyt: 17 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Jimmie: 91 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,722	–	1
2	Annie	772	–	36
3	Ruby	478	–	23
4	Willie	419	–	73
5	Ruth	408	–	5
6	Mattie	344	↑1	93
7	Louise	337	↑1	18
8	Margaret	329	↓2	4
9	Mildred	325	–	6
10	Elizabeth	287	–	8
11	Lillie	287	–	88
12	Edna	266	↑6	19
13	Bessie	256	↑4	56
14	Frances	250	↓1	9
15	Gladys	246	↓1	22
16	Sarah	244	↑6	52
17	Ethel	237	↓5	25
18	Dorothy	233	↓3	3
19	Minnie	230	↓3	71
20	Emma	227	↑3	41
21	Helen	225	↑3	2
22	Lois	214	↑3	43
23	Jessie	211	↑3	68
24	Evelyn	210	↓3	11
25	Clara	207	↑3	39
26	Martha	206	↓6	24
27	Lillian	198	↓8	16
28	Bertha	195	↑8	49
29	Lucille	195	↓2	30
30	Alice	193	↓1	13
31	Hazel	181	–	31
32	Thelma	180	–	29
33	Myrtle	177	↑7	58
34	Carrie	176	↓1	>100
35	Marie	171	↑3	12
36	Virginia	168	↓6	10
37	Ida	167	↑8	54
38	Beatrice	164	↑10	38
39	Fannie	163	↓5	>100
40	Hattie	162	↓3	>100
41	Pauline	160	↑2	33
42	Lula	157	↓1	>100
43	Vera	155	new	66
44	Irene	153	↓5	17
45	Ella	151	↓1	81
46	Grace	147	new	26
47	Eva	146	↓12	55
48	Laura	145	new	64
49	Nellie	145	↓7	61
50	Mamie	140	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	James	1,658	–	3
2	William	1,232	↑1	2
3	John	1,135	↓1	1
4	Robert	822	–	4
5	Willie	719	–	30
6	George	497	–	7
7	Henry	439	↑1	14
8	Charles	400	↑1	6
9	Thomas	376	↓2	10
10	Frank	273	↑1	9
11	Joseph	269	↓1	5
12	Joe	248	↑2	35
13	Edward	228	–	8
14	Walter	226	↓2	11
15	Charlie	221	–	68
16	Fred	196	↑1	29
17	Clarence	188	↑2	24
18	Arthur	177	–	18
19	Albert	169	↓3	17
20	Roy	163	↑2	33
21	David	160	↓1	28
22	Jack	160	↓1	26
23	Woodrow	160	↑10	64
24	Jessie	158	↑1	>100
25	Samuel	149	↑1	41
26	Paul	143	↑1	12
27	Cecil	142	↑1	80
28	Jesse	142	↑4	77
29	Eddie	140	–	>100
30	Johnnie	139	↑4	>100
31	Ernest	135	↓7	36
32	Howard	131	↓1	25
33	Richard	129	↓10	15
34	Ralph	125	↑1	21
35	Sam	123	↓5	74
36	Earl	116	↑8	32
37	Andrew	115	↓1	46
38	Raymond	108	↑1	16
39	Clyde	105	↑8	62
40	Grady	103	↓3	>100
41	Louis	97	↑4	22
42	Marvin	97	new	66
43	Carl	95	–	23
44	Herman	95	↓2	56
45	Lee	94	↓4	83
46	Leroy	93	new	63
47	Jimmie	91	↓1	>100
48	Leon	91	new	85
49	Oscar	91	↓11	86
50	Horace	90	new	>100

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