Popular baby names in Alabama, 1923

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1923 were Mary for girls (2,419 babies) and James for boys (2,455). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,706 babies born in Alabama in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1923

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

Girls

Willodean: 17 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Ludie: 16 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Evie: 19 babies, 9× the national rate
Pinkie: 17 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Odell: 30 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Myrtice: 25 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Mozell: 19 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Adell: 29 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Johnnie: 146 babies, 6× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Ottis: 17 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Hoyt: 26 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Will: 57 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Tommie: 71 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Fletcher: 20 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Wiley: 41 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Grady: 82 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Booker: 25 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Napoleon: 15 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	2,419	–	1
2	Annie	952	–	34
3	Dorothy	651	–	2
4	Willie	543	–	67
5	Margaret	516	–	4
6	Mildred	499	↑1	8
7	Ruby	478	↓1	25
8	Louise	444	–	22
9	Ruth	420	↑2	6
10	Helen	408	↓1	3
11	Frances	399	↓1	10
12	Mattie	369	–	>100
13	Martha	341	↑3	21
14	Evelyn	337	↑3	12
15	Sarah	309	↓1	54
16	Elizabeth	307	↓3	9
17	Lillie	301	↓2	91
18	Doris	292	↑6	11
19	Gladys	271	↑1	29
20	Virginia	271	↓1	7
21	Emma	258	↑2	53
22	Edna	251	↓4	32
23	Ethel	251	↓1	38
24	Lois	248	↑3	27
25	Minnie	243	↓4	99
26	Clara	235	↑12	49
27	Lillian	225	↑6	20
28	Marie	223	–	14
29	Hazel	222	↓3	40
30	Bessie	220	↓5	81
31	Thelma	219	↑8	31
32	Lucille	199	↑2	35
33	Juanita	198	new	51
34	Alice	192	↓5	15
35	Lula	191	↑13	>100
36	Catherine	189	↑13	24
37	Nellie	188	↑8	88
38	Jessie	184	↓8	94
39	Pauline	184	↑1	37
40	Fannie	183	↓5	>100
41	Bertha	177	↓9	64
42	Carrie	176	↓5	>100
43	Bernice	175	new	43
44	Sara	173	–	>100
45	Ida	170	↑1	68
46	Irene	166	↓10	17
47	Betty	161	new	5
48	Ella	161	↓17	93
49	Hattie	157	↓8	>100
50	Myrtle	153	–	84

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	James	2,455	–	4
2	William	1,337	–	3
3	John	1,316	–	1
4	Robert	1,014	–	2
5	Willie	823	–	30
6	Charles	609	–	5
7	George	571	–	6
8	Thomas	449	↑1	12
9	Henry	405	↓1	18
10	Joseph	355	–	7
11	Frank	336	↑4	11
12	Edward	319	↓1	8
13	Walter	280	–	16
14	Joe	278	↓2	35
15	Charlie	244	↓1	79
16	Fred	226	↑4	33
17	Jack	215	↓1	17
18	David	214	↓1	24
19	Albert	209	↑2	20
20	Clarence	201	↓2	29
21	Roy	199	↑3	32
22	Arthur	197	↓3	19
23	Howard	189	↑7	26
24	Richard	189	↑2	9
25	Samuel	188	↓2	45
26	Eddie	186	↑2	>100
27	Johnnie	175	↓2	>100
28	Paul	174	↑1	14
29	Ralph	145	↑6	23
30	Jessie	141	↓3	>100
31	Eugene	140	↓9	25
32	Jimmie	136	↑7	>100
33	Earl	133	↑4	31
34	Harold	133	↓2	13
35	Ernest	131	↓1	38
36	Carl	128	↑8	28
37	Louis	128	new	27
38	Jesse	125	↓5	83
39	Andrew	124	↑4	53
40	Raymond	123	↑5	15
41	Marvin	120	–	51
42	Calvin	112	new	82
43	Sam	111	↓5	89
44	Cecil	107	↓13	87
45	Luther	107	↑1	>100
46	Curtis	102	↑4	>100
47	Herman	102	↓11	66
48	Lee	102	new	85
49	Oscar	101	new	96
50	Clyde	100	new	68

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