Popular baby names in Alabama, 1926

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1926 were Mary for girls (2,533 babies) and James for boys (2,658). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 60,034 babies born in Alabama in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1926

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: 35 babies, 19.9× the national rate
Louvenia: 17 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Claudie: 23 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Era: 24 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Rosia: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Odell: 25 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Johnie: 33 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Estell: 19 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 174 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Eddie: 57 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Boys

Huey: 16 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Judge: 15 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Rayford: 18 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Talmadge: 22 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Mose: 17 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Major: 23 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Will: 50 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Fletcher: 21 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Willie: 971 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Houston: 22 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	2,533	–	1
2	Annie	972	–	34
3	Dorothy	839	–	2
4	Margaret	576	↑2	5
5	Willie	554	↓1	73
6	Mildred	517	↓1	9
7	Ruby	475	–	30
8	Frances	462	↑3	10
9	Louise	445	↓1	27
10	Helen	430	↓1	4
11	Betty	398	↑10	3
12	Doris	393	–	7
13	Ruth	386	↓3	6
14	Martha	374	↓1	24
15	Mattie	352	–	>100
16	Elizabeth	343	↑1	11
17	Evelyn	337	↓3	13
18	Sarah	328	↓2	63
19	Lillie	292	↓1	99
20	Edna	284	–	38
21	Ethel	276	↑1	41
22	Virginia	271	↓3	8
23	Gladys	268	–	35
24	Emma	262	↑3	59
25	Minnie	252	↑4	>100
26	Clara	241	↑12	61
27	Hazel	241	↓2	48
28	Bessie	237	↓2	89
29	Marie	236	↑6	18
30	Catherine	220	↑14	31
31	Bernice	201	↑11	45
32	Alice	200	↓4	17
33	Juanita	200	–	52
34	Lois	199	↓10	19
35	Jessie	198	↑1	93
36	Thelma	195	↑1	36
37	Bertha	191	↓5	76
38	Sara	179	↑10	>100
39	Nellie	178	↑1	>100
40	Johnnie	174	↑1	>100
41	Lillian	172	↓11	28
42	Ella	171	↑4	98
43	Ida	170	↑2	82
44	Pauline	170	↓10	39
45	Rosa	170	new	>100
46	Lucille	169	↑1	43
47	Rosie	169	new	>100
48	Lula	167	↓5	>100
49	Carrie	166	↓18	>100
50	Edith	164	new	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	2,658	–	3
2	William	1,600	↑1	4
3	John	1,394	↓1	2
4	Robert	1,157	–	1
5	Willie	971	–	28
6	Charles	720	–	5
7	George	623	–	6
8	Thomas	495	–	11
9	Henry	399	–	19
10	Joseph	329	–	8
11	Joe	324	↑1	33
12	Edward	320	↓1	10
13	Walter	318	–	17
14	Frank	298	–	12
15	Jack	289	↑1	16
16	Charlie	270	↓1	81
17	Clarence	224	↑1	29
18	David	223	↑1	22
19	Fred	223	↑3	31
20	Richard	215	↑1	7
21	Paul	213	↓1	13
22	Johnnie	205	↑5	>100
23	Albert	201	↑2	21
24	Roy	201	↓7	34
25	Billy	195	↑6	40
26	Eugene	190	↑8	23
27	Harold	187	↓1	14
28	Samuel	185	↑4	48
29	Howard	181	↑1	27
30	Arthur	177	↓7	20
31	Eddie	167	↓7	>100
32	Ralph	166	↑1	24
33	Cecil	164	↑2	86
34	Raymond	164	↑6	15
35	Jessie	156	↓6	>100
36	Ernest	148	–	37
37	Calvin	136	↓9	65
38	Carl	136	–	26
39	Jimmie	131	–	>100
40	Sam	130	↑3	92
41	Andrew	129	–	59
42	Floyd	124	↑4	53
43	Earl	123	↓1	32
44	Curtis	122	new	>100
45	Louis	119	↓8	30
46	Clyde	118	new	67
47	Jesse	117	↓3	87
48	Leon	115	↓1	73
49	Herman	114	new	69
50	Lee	113	new	85

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