Popular baby names in Alabama, 1920

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1920 were Mary for girls (2,360 babies) and James for boys (2,298). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,343 babies born in Alabama in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1920

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

Girls

Ellie: 23 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Lue: 29 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Era: 28 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Lonnie: 18 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Myrtice: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Mittie: 27 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Evie: 20 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Johnnie: 141 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Jimmie: 62 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Johnie: 23 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Boys

Ocie: 16 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Mose: 25 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Quinton: 20 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Will: 53 babies, 6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 51 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Arther: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Cleveland: 50 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Dock: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Ottis: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Houston: 24 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	2,360	–	1
2	Annie	965	–	35
3	Margaret	511	↑4	4
4	Willie	510	↓1	74
5	Mildred	478	↓1	6
6	Ruby	467	↓1	26
7	Ruth	467	↑1	5
8	Dorothy	460	↑1	2
9	Louise	427	↓3	19
10	Helen	387	↑2	3
11	Mattie	371	↓1	96
12	Frances	342	↑1	9
13	Gladys	322	↑4	22
14	Elizabeth	317	↓3	8
15	Sarah	310	↑1	50
16	Ethel	308	↓1	30
17	Evelyn	300	↑4	12
18	Lillie	297	↓4	90
19	Virginia	275	↑13	7
20	Edna	263	↓1	27
21	Martha	258	↓1	23
22	Clara	255	↑7	44
23	Lillian	249	↑12	18
24	Bessie	246	↓1	71
25	Minnie	244	↓7	87
26	Emma	238	↓4	46
27	Lois	227	↓2	38
28	Lucille	226	–	29
29	Hazel	224	↑1	34
30	Bertha	219	↑1	57
31	Jessie	212	↓5	84
32	Myrtle	210	↑4	68
33	Pauline	209	↑9	36
34	Marie	207	↓10	13
35	Doris	204	↑14	14
36	Fannie	197	↑3	>100
37	Alice	188	↓10	15
38	Thelma	187	↓4	31
39	Irene	178	↑5	17
40	Nellie	178	↓2	76
41	Lula	175	new	>100
42	Beatrice	173	new	41
43	Ella	173	↓2	88
44	Carrie	168	↓11	>100
45	Edith	166	↓8	32
46	Rosa	164	↑1	>100
47	Vera	163	↑3	75
48	Mamie	160	new	>100
49	Ida	159	↓9	66
50	Katherine	157	new	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	James	2,298	–	4
2	John	1,441	–	1
3	William	1,330	–	2
4	Robert	1,009	–	3
5	Willie	850	–	29
6	George	611	–	6
7	Charles	576	–	5
8	Henry	485	↑1	17
9	Thomas	464	↓1	11
10	Joseph	362	–	7
11	Edward	300	↑1	8
12	Frank	297	↑2	9
13	Joe	287	↓2	35
14	Charlie	278	↑1	70
15	Walter	257	↓2	13
16	Fred	215	–	33
17	Jack	208	↑1	20
18	Clarence	207	↑4	26
19	Arthur	201	↓2	18
20	David	199	–	25
21	Albert	196	↓2	19
22	Richard	190	↑2	10
23	Samuel	189	↑8	44
24	Eddie	186	↑4	>100
25	Johnnie	179	↓4	99
26	Roy	173	↓3	32
27	Cecil	163	↑6	77
28	Howard	163	↑1	24
29	Jessie	160	↓3	>100
30	Eugene	152	↑7	30
31	Paul	150	↓1	14
32	Raymond	139	–	15
33	Jesse	132	↓8	79
34	Carl	131	↑15	27
35	Earl	129	new	31
36	Andrew	126	↑6	49
37	Leon	125	new	75
38	Ernest	122	↓4	37
39	Jimmie	122	↑2	>100
40	Louis	121	↓5	28
41	Ralph	120	↓14	22
42	Harold	116	new	12
43	Herman	116	new	66
44	Oscar	116	↓4	90
45	Harry	107	new	21
46	Herbert	107	new	41
47	Sam	106	↓8	84
48	Marvin	104	↓10	62
49	Clyde	103	↓2	68
50	Floyd	100	↓7	61

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