Popular baby names in Alabama, 1925

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1925 were Mary for girls (2,694 babies) and James for boys (2,565). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 59,579 babies born in Alabama in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1925

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: 26 babies, 20× the national rate
Odell: 33 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Era: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Johnnie: 195 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Claudie: 19 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Idell: 18 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Mittie: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Myrtice: 23 babies, 6× the national rate
Pearline: 28 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Easter: 21 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Ocie: 15 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Ezell: 15 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Auther: 16 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Rayford: 18 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Talmadge: 21 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Houston: 27 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Anderson: 22 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Dock: 19 babies, 6.9× the national rate
King: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Tommie: 72 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	2,694	–	1
2	Annie	1,052	–	32
3	Dorothy	755	–	2
4	Willie	585	↑3	68
5	Mildred	525	–	9
6	Margaret	511	↓2	5
7	Ruby	474	↓1	30
8	Louise	466	↑2	27
9	Helen	445	–	4
10	Ruth	429	↓2	6
11	Frances	411	–	11
12	Doris	397	–	8
13	Martha	393	↑3	23
14	Evelyn	357	↑5	12
15	Mattie	350	↓1	100
16	Sarah	340	↓3	58
17	Elizabeth	327	↓2	10
18	Lillie	323	↑2	91
19	Virginia	306	↓2	7
20	Edna	299	↓2	37
21	Betty	288	↑8	3
22	Ethel	281	↑1	43
23	Gladys	274	↓2	33
24	Lois	256	↓2	18
25	Hazel	252	–	45
26	Bessie	247	↓2	87
27	Emma	243	↓1	57
28	Alice	238	↑3	15
29	Minnie	230	↓2	>100
30	Lillian	227	↑5	25
31	Carrie	224	↑17	>100
32	Bertha	212	↑12	74
33	Juanita	207	↑3	49
34	Pauline	207	↑6	38
35	Marie	203	↓1	16
36	Jessie	202	↓6	97
37	Thelma	200	↓4	35
38	Clara	199	↓6	55
39	Fannie	196	↑6	>100
40	Nellie	196	↓1	98
41	Johnnie	195	new	>100
42	Bernice	190	↓14	46
43	Lula	185	↑3	>100
44	Catherine	183	↓6	29
45	Ida	177	↓2	82
46	Ella	175	↓4	93
47	Lucille	174	new	41
48	Sara	169	↓11	>100
49	Hattie	168	new	>100
50	Myrtle	165	new	95

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	James	2,565	–	4
2	John	1,462	↑1	2
3	William	1,431	↓1	3
4	Robert	1,091	–	1
5	Willie	924	–	27
6	Charles	668	–	5
7	George	614	–	6
8	Thomas	483	↑1	11
9	Henry	438	↓1	18
10	Joseph	366	–	7
11	Edward	328	–	9
12	Joe	309	↑1	34
13	Walter	299	↓1	16
14	Frank	291	↑1	12
15	Charlie	263	↓1	78
16	Jack	257	–	17
17	Roy	239	↑1	32
18	Clarence	230	↑5	30
19	David	221	–	22
20	Paul	216	↑12	13
21	Richard	216	↓4	8
22	Fred	214	↓2	33
23	Arthur	198	↑1	20
24	Eddie	186	↑4	>100
25	Albert	180	↓4	21
26	Harold	180	↑5	14
27	Johnnie	179	↓1	100
28	Calvin	178	↓6	47
29	Jessie	172	↑4	>100
30	Howard	169	↓5	26
31	Billy	163	↑10	49
32	Samuel	162	↓5	46
33	Ralph	158	↓4	25
34	Eugene	150	↓4	24
35	Cecil	134	↑8	87
36	Ernest	131	↑1	37
37	Louis	130	↑11	29
38	Carl	125	↑2	28
39	Jimmie	125	–	>100
40	Raymond	123	↓5	15
41	Andrew	121	↑1	56
42	Earl	118	↓6	31
43	Sam	118	↑1	91
44	Jesse	117	↓10	85
45	Marvin	108	↓7	51
46	Floyd	106	new	58
47	Leon	105	↑2	76
48	Earnest	104	↓3	>100
49	Herbert	103	new	42
50	Lewis	99	new	79

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