Popular baby names in Alabama, 1918

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,914 babies) and James for boys (1,872). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 49,705 babies born in Alabama in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1918

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: 18 babies, 22.9× the national rate
Ludie: 15 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Evie: 22 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Odell: 26 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Lue: 23 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Era: 25 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Jettie: 18 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Mittie: 20 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Estell: 23 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Ellie: 19 babies, 6.7× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 31 babies, 9× the national rate
Gaston: 16 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Hoyt: 28 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Eldridge: 15 babies, 7× the national rate
Grady: 87 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Fletcher: 25 babies, 6.8× the national rate
General: 16 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Talmadge: 15 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Tommie: 62 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Will: 51 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,914	–	1
2	Annie	858	–	36
3	Willie	543	↑1	70
4	Margaret	459	↑2	4
5	Ruby	451	↓2	27
6	Mildred	390	↑1	6
7	Ruth	390	↓2	5
8	Mattie	356	↑1	100
9	Louise	345	↓1	18
10	Frances	340	↑4	8
11	Elizabeth	338	↓1	9
12	Dorothy	301	–	3
13	Helen	284	↑4	2
14	Ethel	281	↑1	28
15	Gladys	275	↓2	22
16	Lillie	252	↓5	89
17	Edna	251	↑2	23
18	Evelyn	240	↑2	11
19	Bessie	231	↓1	61
20	Martha	229	↑1	25
21	Jessie	222	↑3	75
22	Minnie	222	↑1	88
23	Sarah	221	↓7	52
24	Bertha	212	↑11	51
25	Virginia	209	↑2	7
26	Alice	206	↑12	13
27	Clara	206	↓5	43
28	Hazel	204	↑9	33
29	Thelma	198	↑7	32
30	Lucille	196	↓2	29
31	Lillian	195	↓2	15
32	Lois	195	↓1	42
33	Marie	190	↓7	12
34	Emma	181	↓9	46
35	Nellie	179	↓3	65
36	Myrtle	173	↑9	62
37	Carrie	171	↓3	>100
38	Irene	165	↑3	16
39	Ida	163	–	57
40	Pauline	162	↓7	35
41	Julia	158	new	48
42	Mamie	155	↑6	>100
43	Lula	154	↑3	>100
44	Fannie	153	↓14	>100
45	Rosa	153	new	>100
46	Ella	152	↓2	84
47	Edith	150	new	30
48	Hattie	148	↓1	>100
49	Grace	143	↓9	31
50	Eva	142	new	55

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	1,872	–	3
2	John	1,319	–	1
3	William	1,262	–	2
4	Robert	898	–	4
5	Willie	780	–	29
6	George	615	–	6
7	Thomas	459	↑2	10
8	Charles	454	↓1	5
9	Henry	421	↓1	16
10	Joseph	354	–	7
11	Edward	289	↑4	8
12	Frank	279	↓1	9
13	Walter	253	↓1	11
14	Joe	252	–	34
15	Charlie	239	↓2	70
16	Fred	208	–	33
17	Arthur	202	–	17
18	Woodrow	188	↑17	58
19	David	181	↑2	28
20	Clarence	179	↓2	23
21	Roy	177	↑3	32
22	Albert	176	↑3	19
23	Samuel	170	↓3	43
24	Jack	161	↓1	21
25	Richard	161	↑1	12
26	Howard	155	↑2	26
27	Ernest	152	↑2	37
28	Paul	151	↓1	14
29	Johnnie	148	↓7	>100
30	Jessie	147	↓11	>100
31	Cecil	133	↑3	82
32	Sam	129	↑4	75
33	Raymond	125	↑9	15
34	Andrew	120	↑9	46
35	Carl	118	↓2	25
36	Eddie	118	↓4	>100
37	Eugene	112	↑4	35
38	Ralph	109	↓7	22
39	Jesse	105	↓9	78
40	Earl	104	↓2	31
41	Marvin	104	↑8	68
42	Leroy	96	new	57
43	Leon	95	↑4	77
44	Earnest	94	new	>100
45	Herman	94	new	65
46	Louis	94	↓7	24
47	Curtis	92	new	>100
48	Oscar	92	↓3	87
49	Floyd	90	new	61
50	Clyde	89	↓4	67

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