Popular baby names in Alabama, 1924

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1924 were Mary for girls (2,597 babies) and James for boys (2,513). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 58,475 babies born in Alabama in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1924

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: 21 babies, 23× the national rate
Willodean: 23 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Inell: 17 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Era: 25 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Madie: 17 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Mittie: 21 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Evie: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Mozell: 19 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Corene: 17 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Myrtice: 26 babies, 6.7× the national rate

Boys

Erskine: 19 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Huey: 21 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Ike: 15 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Talmadge: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Booker: 28 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Hoyt: 26 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Tommie: 62 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Mose: 16 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Isiah: 18 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Willie: 849 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	2,597	–	1
2	Annie	1,006	–	32
3	Dorothy	705	–	2
4	Margaret	568	↑1	5
5	Mildred	553	↑1	8
6	Ruby	540	↑1	26
7	Willie	527	↓3	68
8	Ruth	469	↑1	6
9	Helen	455	↑1	3
10	Louise	450	↓2	24
11	Frances	422	–	10
12	Doris	360	↑6	9
13	Sarah	355	↑2	54
14	Mattie	350	↓2	>100
15	Elizabeth	347	↑1	11
16	Martha	342	↓3	21
17	Virginia	332	↑3	7
18	Edna	330	↑4	31
19	Evelyn	323	↓5	12
20	Lillie	297	↓3	97
21	Gladys	289	↓2	30
22	Lois	275	↑2	22
23	Ethel	270	–	39
24	Bessie	262	↑6	86
25	Hazel	252	↑4	42
26	Emma	245	↓5	57
27	Minnie	238	↓2	100
28	Bernice	233	↑15	47
29	Betty	221	↑18	4
30	Jessie	217	↑8	91
31	Alice	216	↑3	15
32	Clara	216	↓6	56
33	Thelma	215	↓2	33
34	Marie	209	↓6	14
35	Lillian	208	↓8	23
36	Juanita	205	↓3	48
37	Sara	202	↑7	>100
38	Catherine	189	↓2	27
39	Nellie	188	↓2	92
40	Pauline	188	↓1	38
41	Edith	185	new	36
42	Ella	181	↑6	94
43	Ida	179	↑2	70
44	Bertha	178	↓3	65
45	Fannie	177	↓5	>100
46	Lula	174	↓11	>100
47	Rosie	160	new	>100
48	Carrie	156	↓6	>100
49	Irene	152	↓3	18
50	Julia	152	new	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	James	2,513	–	4
2	William	1,437	–	3
3	John	1,398	–	2
4	Robert	1,075	–	1
5	Willie	849	–	30
6	Charles	662	–	5
7	George	642	–	6
8	Henry	448	↑1	18
9	Thomas	440	↓1	11
10	Joseph	338	–	7
11	Edward	318	↑1	9
12	Walter	289	↑1	16
13	Joe	285	↑1	35
14	Charlie	256	↑1	80
15	Frank	256	↓4	12
16	Jack	229	↑1	17
17	Richard	223	↑7	8
18	Roy	218	↑3	31
19	David	217	↓1	24
20	Fred	216	↓4	32
21	Albert	201	↓2	21
22	Calvin	201	↑20	44
23	Clarence	195	↓3	29
24	Arthur	194	↓2	20
25	Howard	185	↓2	26
26	Johnnie	183	↑1	>100
27	Samuel	179	↓2	45
28	Eddie	169	↓2	>100
29	Ralph	167	–	23
30	Eugene	163	↑1	25
31	Harold	159	↑3	13
32	Paul	158	↓4	14
33	Jessie	153	↓3	>100
34	Jesse	147	↑4	86
35	Raymond	145	↑5	15
36	Earl	141	↓3	33
37	Ernest	125	↓2	37
38	Marvin	123	↑3	50
39	Jimmie	119	↓7	>100
40	Carl	118	↓4	27
41	Billy	117	new	63
42	Andrew	115	↓3	56
43	Cecil	114	↑1	85
44	Sam	107	↓1	91
45	Earnest	103	new	>100
46	Lee	103	↑2	83
47	Leroy	97	new	53
48	Louis	97	↓11	28
49	Leon	95	new	76
50	Curtis	94	↓4	>100

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