Popular baby names in Alabama, 1917

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1917 were Mary for girls (1,825 babies) and James for boys (1,698). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 45,110 babies born in Alabama in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1917

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

Girls

Kattie: 16 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Era: 28 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Evie: 22 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Mozell: 15 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Charlie: 27 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Corene: 16 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Estell: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Myrtice: 20 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Johnnie: 102 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Eddie: 36 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Hoyt: 30 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Early: 16 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Grady: 96 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Travis: 30 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Jimmie: 102 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Ottis: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Anderson: 18 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Arther: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Willie: 688 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Will: 40 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	1,825	–	1
2	Annie	732	–	35
3	Ruby	458	–	27
4	Willie	427	–	72
5	Ruth	396	–	5
6	Margaret	384	↑2	4
7	Mildred	353	↑2	6
8	Louise	320	↓1	19
9	Mattie	294	↓3	94
10	Elizabeth	292	–	8
11	Lillie	275	–	86
12	Dorothy	271	↑6	3
13	Gladys	263	↑2	23
14	Frances	258	–	9
15	Ethel	252	↑2	24
16	Sarah	249	–	52
17	Helen	246	↑4	2
18	Bessie	241	↓5	61
19	Edna	218	↓7	20
20	Evelyn	216	↑4	11
21	Martha	216	↑5	22
22	Clara	215	↑3	41
23	Minnie	214	↓4	75
24	Jessie	209	↓1	70
25	Emma	207	↓5	46
26	Marie	201	↑9	12
27	Virginia	196	↑9	10
28	Lucille	191	↑1	29
29	Lillian	190	↓2	15
30	Fannie	187	↑9	>100
31	Lois	180	↓9	43
32	Nellie	170	↑17	64
33	Pauline	170	↑8	33
34	Carrie	169	–	>100
35	Bertha	165	↓7	51
36	Thelma	163	↓4	32
37	Hazel	162	↓6	31
38	Alice	158	↓8	13
39	Ida	152	↓2	56
40	Grace	146	↑6	30
41	Irene	145	↑3	17
42	Beatrice	144	↓4	39
43	Alma	141	new	71
44	Ella	140	↑1	83
45	Myrtle	140	↓12	58
46	Lula	136	↓4	>100
47	Hattie	132	↓7	>100
48	Mamie	132	↑2	>100
49	Gertrude	131	new	37
50	Inez	130	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	James	1,698	–	3
2	John	1,132	↑1	1
3	William	1,118	↓1	2
4	Robert	813	–	4
5	Willie	688	–	31
6	George	511	–	6
7	Charles	375	↑1	7
8	Henry	355	↓1	15
9	Thomas	338	–	10
10	Joseph	271	↑1	5
11	Frank	264	↓1	9
12	Walter	254	↑2	11
13	Charlie	240	↑2	67
14	Joe	234	↓2	35
15	Edward	228	↓2	8
16	Fred	192	–	29
17	Arthur	183	↑1	17
18	Clarence	168	↓1	25
19	Jessie	150	↑5	>100
20	Samuel	148	↑5	42
21	David	143	–	28
22	Johnnie	143	↑8	>100
23	Jack	142	↓1	22
24	Roy	138	↓4	33
25	Albert	137	↓6	18
26	Richard	136	↑7	14
27	Paul	128	↓1	13
28	Howard	125	↑4	26
29	Ernest	123	↑2	37
30	Jesse	123	↓2	79
31	Ralph	115	↑3	21
32	Eddie	114	↓3	>100
33	Carl	111	↑10	24
34	Cecil	106	↓7	83
35	Woodrow	106	↓12	73
36	Sam	103	↓1	72
37	Jimmie	102	↑10	>100
38	Earl	101	↓2	32
39	Louis	101	↑2	23
40	Lewis	99	new	70
41	Eugene	98	new	39
42	Raymond	97	↓4	16
43	Andrew	96	↓6	48
44	Grady	96	↓4	>100
45	Oscar	95	↑4	87
46	Clyde	89	↓7	64
47	Leon	89	↑1	82
48	Luther	86	new	>100
49	Marvin	86	↓7	68
50	Harry	85	new	19

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