Popular baby names in Alabama, 1930

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1930 were Mary for girls (2,396 babies) and James for boys (2,402). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,734 babies born in Alabama in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1930

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: 28 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Voncile: 15 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Myrtice: 17 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Adell: 20 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Gussie: 27 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Odell: 16 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Willie: 467 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 141 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Nell: 77 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Charlie: 27 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Boys

Rayford: 22 babies, 10× the national rate
Mose: 21 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Hoyt: 29 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Arther: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Grady: 78 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Fletcher: 18 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Anderson: 18 babies, 6× the national rate
Columbus: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Willie: 927 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Odis: 20 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	2,396	–	1
2	Betty	1,166	–	2
3	Dorothy	864	↑1	3
4	Annie	815	↓1	40
5	Willie	467	↑1	87
6	Doris	466	↑2	9
7	Mildred	421	↑2	21
8	Margaret	419	↓3	5
9	Helen	415	↓2	4
10	Ruby	402	–	36
11	Martha	360	–	27
12	Louise	352	↑1	31
13	Sarah	339	↑2	70
14	Frances	331	↓2	16
15	Elizabeth	314	↑2	15
16	Mattie	283	↑4	>100
17	Ruth	283	↓3	10
18	Evelyn	277	–	19
19	Virginia	275	↓3	12
20	Edna	262	↓1	51
21	Lillie	235	–	>100
22	Gladys	208	↑1	48
23	Ethel	204	↓1	65
24	Clara	203	↑3	64
25	Emma	201	–	73
26	Juanita	195	↑3	57
27	Alice	187	↑3	20
28	Bessie	186	↑5	>100
29	Minnie	186	↓5	>100
30	Joyce	183	↑1	18
31	Marie	181	↑3	26
32	Catherine	177	↑6	35
33	Carrie	176	↑17	>100
34	Bernice	175	↓2	58
35	Lois	173	↓9	17
36	Rosie	170	↑6	>100
37	Jessie	169	↓1	>100
38	Barbara	166	↓1	6
39	Billie	166	new	79
40	Fannie	166	new	>100
41	Hazel	166	↓13	71
42	Nellie	158	↑3	>100
43	Sara	157	↓2	>100
44	Peggy	155	new	67
45	Thelma	150	↓5	45
46	Jean	145	↓2	14
47	Ella	143	new	>100
48	Hattie	142	new	>100
49	Lula	142	↓14	>100
50	Johnnie	141	↓2	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	James	2,402	–	2
2	William	1,399	–	4
3	John	1,204	–	3
4	Robert	1,127	–	1
5	Charles	930	↑1	6
6	Willie	927	↓1	29
7	Billy	542	↑2	20
8	Thomas	527	–	11
9	George	521	↓2	8
10	Henry	347	–	22
11	Edward	345	↑1	10
12	Joe	345	↓1	27
13	Joseph	318	–	9
14	Jack	289	–	14
15	Walter	271	↑2	19
16	David	267	–	15
17	Frank	264	↓2	13
18	Bobby	231	↑17	41
19	Richard	231	–	5
20	Charlie	230	–	91
21	Fred	224	↑7	32
22	Clarence	203	↓1	39
23	Johnnie	201	↑9	>100
24	Harold	196	↑1	18
25	Eugene	192	↑2	21
26	Paul	190	–	12
27	Roy	186	↓5	33
28	Albert	185	↑1	24
29	Jimmie	183	↑9	86
30	Howard	176	↑1	31
31	Arthur	174	↓8	23
32	Donald	172	↑5	7
33	Eddie	164	↓9	97
34	Raymond	158	↑6	16
35	Ralph	157	↓1	25
36	Herbert	149	↓18	35
37	Samuel	148	↓7	55
38	Earl	135	↑1	38
39	Kenneth	129	new	17
40	Jessie	124	↓4	>100
41	Curtis	123	↑1	>100
42	Carl	121	↓9	26
43	Cecil	120	↑7	99
44	Andrew	113	↑1	62
45	Marvin	113	↑4	48
46	Jesse	110	↑1	94
47	Ernest	108	↓6	43
48	Floyd	106	new	61
49	Ray	104	new	57
50	Earnest	100	new	>100

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