Popular baby names in Alabama, 1929

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1929 were Mary for girls (2,342 babies) and James for boys (2,436). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,821 babies born in Alabama in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1929

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, 19.4× the national rate
Era: 21 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Estell: 16 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Myrtice: 18 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Adell: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Johnie: 20 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Cassie: 16 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Queen: 40 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jannie: 36 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Annie: 893 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Ocie: 21 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Mose: 21 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Talmadge: 23 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Arther: 22 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Rayford: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Buford: 37 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Grady: 81 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Booker: 24 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Fletcher: 19 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Willie: 990 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	2,342	–	1
2	Betty	907	↑2	2
3	Annie	893	↓1	37
4	Dorothy	862	↓1	3
5	Margaret	496	↑2	5
6	Willie	479	↓1	76
7	Helen	437	↑3	4
8	Doris	434	–	6
9	Mildred	415	↓3	18
10	Ruby	395	↓1	36
11	Martha	392	↑2	27
12	Frances	374	–	16
13	Louise	338	↓2	31
14	Ruth	335	–	8
15	Sarah	324	–	68
16	Virginia	293	↑1	11
17	Elizabeth	289	↑1	15
18	Evelyn	286	↑1	19
19	Edna	285	↑2	51
20	Mattie	275	↓4	>100
21	Lillie	248	↓1	>100
22	Ethel	231	–	56
23	Gladys	221	↑1	44
24	Minnie	221	↑2	>100
25	Emma	219	↓2	69
26	Lois	219	↓1	17
27	Clara	217	↑1	65
28	Hazel	198	↑1	64
29	Juanita	197	↑9	60
30	Alice	195	↓3	21
31	Joyce	189	new	23
32	Bernice	183	↑2	55
33	Bessie	180	↓2	>100
34	Marie	175	↓2	22
35	Lula	172	↑10	>100
36	Jessie	171	↑6	>100
37	Barbara	169	new	7
38	Catherine	166	↓3	34
39	Bertha	164	↓3	93
40	Thelma	159	↓10	41
41	Sara	157	↓8	>100
42	Rosie	153	new	>100
43	Lillian	148	↓3	40
44	Jean	142	↓5	12
45	Nellie	142	↓1	>100
46	Christine	141	new	>100
47	Vera	140	new	99
48	Johnnie	138	↓1	>100
49	Julia	134	↓6	88
50	Carrie	130	↓13	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	James	2,436	–	2
2	William	1,355	–	4
3	John	1,278	–	3
4	Robert	1,119	–	1
5	Willie	990	–	29
6	Charles	816	–	5
7	George	559	–	8
8	Thomas	495	–	11
9	Billy	432	↑3	23
10	Henry	364	↓1	21
11	Joe	320	↑3	30
12	Edward	317	↓2	10
13	Joseph	312	↓2	9
14	Jack	303	↓1	14
15	Frank	277	↑1	12
16	David	274	↑5	17
17	Walter	261	–	19
18	Herbert	248	↓3	25
19	Richard	245	–	6
20	Charlie	234	–	87
21	Clarence	229	↑1	37
22	Roy	201	↑1	35
23	Arthur	197	↑4	22
24	Eddie	192	↑6	>100
25	Harold	192	↓1	16
26	Paul	187	↑3	13
27	Eugene	180	↓2	20
28	Fred	179	↓10	34
29	Albert	168	↓3	24
30	Samuel	166	↑5	53
31	Howard	163	↑2	31
32	Johnnie	163	↓4	>100
33	Carl	160	↑5	28
34	Ralph	156	↓3	26
35	Bobby	154	new	50
36	Jessie	154	↓2	>100
37	Donald	151	↑2	7
38	Jimmie	143	↓1	98
39	Earl	138	↓3	36
40	Raymond	129	↓8	15
41	Ernest	128	↓1	43
42	Curtis	120	↑4	99
43	Hubert	115	↑4	>100
44	Sam	114	new	>100
45	Andrew	112	↑4	59
46	Herman	111	new	75
47	Jesse	109	↓6	93
48	Melvin	109	–	49
49	Marvin	106	new	46
50	Cecil	105	↓5	>100

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