Popular baby names in Alabama, 1922

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1922 were Mary for girls (2,384 babies) and James for boys (2,534). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 58,087 babies born in Alabama in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1922

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: 24 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Gertha: 16 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Inell: 16 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Era: 33 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Jettie: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Evie: 17 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Myrtice: 27 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Claudie: 18 babies, 7× the national rate
Mozell: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Estell: 24 babies, 6.8× the national rate

Boys

Huey: 20 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Rayford: 17 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Houston: 30 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Tommie: 76 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Major: 26 babies, 7× the national rate
Dock: 19 babies, 7× the national rate
Odis: 29 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Hoyt: 25 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mose: 20 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Will: 49 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	2,384	–	1
2	Annie	1,020	–	30
3	Dorothy	618	–	2
4	Willie	551	–	70
5	Margaret	530	–	4
6	Ruby	491	↑1	26
7	Mildred	459	↓1	8
8	Louise	421	–	22
9	Helen	410	↑2	3
10	Frances	396	–	10
11	Ruth	394	↓2	5
12	Mattie	389	↑2	>100
13	Elizabeth	356	↑2	9
14	Sarah	342	↓1	51
15	Lillie	330	↑2	85
16	Martha	326	–	21
17	Evelyn	314	↑2	13
18	Edna	291	↑2	29
19	Virginia	289	↓1	7
20	Gladys	288	↓8	25
21	Minnie	287	↑2	91
22	Ethel	263	↓1	32
23	Emma	254	↑6	50
24	Doris	246	↓2	11
25	Bessie	243	–	81
26	Hazel	232	↓2	37
27	Lois	222	↑1	35
28	Marie	222	↓1	14
29	Alice	221	↓3	15
30	Jessie	218	–	87
31	Ella	210	↑16	90
32	Bertha	209	↓1	63
33	Lillian	203	↑2	19
34	Lucille	191	↑2	33
35	Fannie	189	↑11	>100
36	Irene	185	↑5	17
37	Carrie	183	–	>100
38	Clara	182	↓4	47
39	Thelma	180	↓6	31
40	Pauline	178	↓8	36
41	Hattie	177	new	>100
42	Rosie	170	new	>100
43	Rosa	169	new	>100
44	Sara	169	new	>100
45	Nellie	164	↓6	83
46	Ida	162	↓8	65
47	Edith	161	↓2	34
48	Lula	161	–	>100
49	Catherine	160	↓6	24
50	Myrtle	160	↓6	75

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	2,534	–	4
2	William	1,571	–	3
3	John	1,497	–	1
4	Robert	1,004	–	2
5	Willie	902	–	28
6	Charles	598	↑1	5
7	George	586	↓1	6
8	Henry	469	↑1	17
9	Thomas	437	↓1	11
10	Joseph	365	–	7
11	Edward	329	↑1	8
12	Joe	293	↑2	35
13	Walter	289	–	15
14	Charlie	283	↑1	72
15	Frank	264	↓4	10
16	Jack	253	↑3	18
17	David	230	↑4	24
18	Clarence	216	↑2	29
19	Arthur	199	↓2	19
20	Fred	194	↓2	33
21	Albert	193	↓5	20
22	Eugene	189	↑6	25
23	Samuel	187	–	43
24	Roy	183	↑2	32
25	Johnnie	179	–	>100
26	Richard	172	↓2	9
27	Jessie	169	↑5	>100
28	Eddie	166	↑5	>100
29	Paul	163	–	14
30	Howard	159	↓8	26
31	Cecil	142	↑3	85
32	Harold	136	↑5	13
33	Jesse	136	↑5	81
34	Ernest	135	↓3	37
35	Ralph	133	↓8	23
36	Herman	131	↑13	66
37	Earl	127	↑4	31
38	Sam	126	↑2	84
39	Jimmie	120	↑5	>100
40	Harry	118	↑8	22
41	Marvin	118	↑4	56
42	Leon	117	new	77
43	Andrew	115	↓4	53
44	Carl	112	↓8	30
45	Raymond	111	↓10	16
46	Luther	108	new	>100
47	Earnest	107	new	>100
48	Leroy	103	new	55
49	Warren	103	↓19	45
50	Curtis	102	new	>100

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