Popular baby names in Alabama, 1919

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1919 were Mary for girls (2,222 babies) and James for boys (2,224). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,301 babies born in Alabama in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1919

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

Girls

Evie: 30 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Pinkie: 17 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Claudie: 24 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Lonnie: 18 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Era: 32 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Tommie: 53 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Mittie: 27 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Eddie: 54 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Myrtice: 23 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Pearlie: 59 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Boys

Earlie: 16 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Ocie: 20 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Early: 22 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Crawford: 17 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Ottis: 23 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Quinton: 27 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Grady: 105 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Connie: 15 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Will: 58 babies, 6× the national rate
Felton: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	2,222	–	1
2	Annie	922	–	35
3	Willie	607	–	61
4	Mildred	525	↑2	6
5	Ruby	513	–	24
6	Louise	461	↑3	20
7	Margaret	459	↓3	4
8	Ruth	445	↓1	5
9	Dorothy	387	↑3	3
10	Mattie	376	↓2	95
11	Elizabeth	352	–	8
12	Helen	346	↑1	2
13	Frances	344	↓3	9
14	Lillie	330	↑2	81
15	Ethel	311	↓1	28
16	Sarah	305	↑7	46
17	Gladys	290	↓2	21
18	Minnie	286	↑4	80
19	Edna	279	↓2	22
20	Martha	274	–	25
21	Evelyn	272	↓3	11
22	Emma	263	↑12	45
23	Bessie	260	↓4	59
24	Marie	239	↑9	12
25	Lois	228	↑7	40
26	Jessie	223	↓5	75
27	Alice	222	↓1	13
28	Lucille	219	↑2	27
29	Clara	214	↓2	43
30	Hazel	214	↓2	32
31	Bertha	211	↓7	52
32	Virginia	207	↓7	7
33	Carrie	206	↑4	>100
34	Thelma	205	↓5	31
35	Lillian	200	↓4	17
36	Myrtle	200	–	67
37	Edith	198	↑10	29
38	Nellie	192	↓3	69
39	Fannie	183	↑5	>100
40	Ida	179	↓1	57
41	Ella	176	↑5	87
42	Pauline	176	↓2	36
43	Eva	172	↑7	55
44	Irene	172	↓6	16
45	Julia	172	↓4	48
46	Hattie	168	↑2	>100
47	Rosa	168	↓2	>100
48	Rosie	167	new	>100
49	Doris	164	new	18
50	Vera	160	new	65

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	James	2,224	–	3
2	John	1,431	–	1
3	William	1,399	–	2
4	Robert	914	–	4
5	Willie	906	–	23
6	George	633	–	6
7	Charles	497	↑1	5
8	Thomas	450	↓1	10
9	Henry	378	–	16
10	Joseph	349	–	7
11	Joe	315	↑3	35
12	Edward	311	↓1	8
13	Walter	300	–	11
14	Frank	292	↓2	9
15	Charlie	244	–	66
16	Fred	244	–	30
17	Arthur	223	–	19
18	Jack	219	↑6	21
19	Albert	211	↑3	18
20	David	206	↓1	27
21	Johnnie	200	↑8	95
22	Clarence	184	↓2	25
23	Roy	168	↓2	32
24	Richard	166	↑1	12
25	Jesse	162	↑14	77
26	Jessie	160	↑4	>100
27	Ralph	156	↑11	22
28	Eddie	155	↑8	99
29	Howard	154	↓3	24
30	Paul	147	↓2	15
31	Samuel	147	↓8	43
32	Raymond	143	↑1	14
33	Cecil	140	↓2	78
34	Ernest	139	↓7	36
35	Louis	133	↑11	28
36	Woodrow	131	↓18	91
37	Eugene	130	–	33
38	Marvin	130	↑3	63
39	Sam	129	↓7	75
40	Oscar	127	↑8	88
41	Jimmie	125	new	>100
42	Andrew	119	↓8	47
43	Floyd	112	↑6	59
44	Lee	108	new	82
45	Grady	105	new	>100
46	Earnest	101	↓2	>100
47	Clyde	100	↑3	67
48	Luther	100	new	>100
49	Carl	99	↓14	29
50	Curtis	98	↓3	>100

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