Popular baby names in Alabama, 1931

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1931 were Mary for girls (2,272 babies) and James for boys (2,247). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 54,269 babies born in Alabama in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1931

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: 20 babies, 22.7× the national rate
Willodean: 35 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Era: 17 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Charlie: 28 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Willie: 415 babies, 6× the national rate
Callie: 29 babies, 6× the national rate
Lue: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Annie: 756 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Jimmie: 81 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Mattie: 255 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Boys

Ocie: 17 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Oneal: 16 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Mose: 18 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Olen: 24 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Coleman: 16 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Fletcher: 18 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Talmadge: 18 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Theo: 15 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Isiah: 18 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Hoyt: 20 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	2,272	–	1
2	Betty	1,313	–	2
3	Dorothy	787	–	3
4	Annie	756	–	41
5	Doris	463	↑1	10
6	Martha	418	↑5	28
7	Willie	415	↓2	93
8	Margaret	406	–	7
9	Helen	394	–	6
10	Ruby	390	–	39
11	Mildred	352	↓4	26
12	Frances	331	↑2	18
13	Elizabeth	307	↑2	16
14	Sarah	305	↓1	71
15	Louise	299	↓3	33
16	Ruth	285	↑1	11
17	Virginia	269	↑2	12
18	Mattie	255	↓2	>100
19	Evelyn	249	↓1	24
20	Barbara	239	↑18	4
21	Lillie	231	–	>100
22	Joyce	224	↑8	15
23	Clara	217	↑1	61
24	Emma	217	↑1	76
25	Edna	211	↓5	52
26	Peggy	200	↑18	42
27	Alice	190	–	21
28	Hazel	183	↑13	74
29	Sara	183	↑14	>100
30	Lois	178	↑5	20
31	Ethel	177	↓8	67
32	Marie	175	↓1	27
33	Juanita	174	↓7	57
34	Gladys	172	↓12	55
35	Minnie	170	↓6	>100
36	Jean	165	↑10	13
37	Nellie	164	↑5	>100
38	Bessie	163	↓10	>100
39	Billie	161	–	81
40	Bernice	159	↓6	63
41	Bobbie	158	new	>100
42	Jessie	156	↓5	>100
43	Thelma	149	↑2	53
44	Ella	148	↑3	>100
45	Catherine	146	↓13	36
46	Bertha	144	new	>100
47	Carolyn	144	new	60
48	Christine	136	new	>100
49	Fannie	128	↓9	>100
50	Carrie	126	↓17	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	James	2,247	–	2
2	William	1,265	–	4
3	John	1,090	–	3
4	Robert	1,076	–	1
5	Charles	942	–	6
6	Willie	876	–	31
7	Billy	592	–	19
8	Thomas	476	–	10
9	George	471	–	8
10	Edward	324	↑1	11
11	Joe	318	↑1	29
12	Henry	308	↓2	22
13	Joseph	289	–	9
14	Bobby	286	↑4	32
15	David	272	↑1	13
16	Jack	271	↓2	15
17	Walter	249	↓2	20
18	Richard	245	↑1	5
19	Harold	234	↑5	18
20	Frank	218	↓3	16
21	Charlie	214	↓1	94
22	Fred	197	↓1	33
23	Donald	193	↑9	7
24	Clarence	189	↓2	39
25	Roy	189	↑2	35
26	Eugene	186	↓1	21
27	Arthur	180	↑4	23
28	Jimmie	179	↑1	81
29	Eddie	177	↑4	95
30	Albert	171	↓2	24
31	Johnnie	168	↓8	>100
32	Samuel	163	↑5	56
33	Paul	161	↓7	12
34	Howard	149	↓4	34
35	Jessie	148	↑5	>100
36	Ralph	142	↓1	25
37	Herbert	141	↓1	41
38	Kenneth	135	↑1	14
39	Carl	133	↑3	28
40	Earl	132	↓2	40
41	Raymond	123	↓7	17
42	Curtis	119	↓1	>100
43	Ernest	114	↑4	47
44	Johnny	110	new	>100
45	Jesse	109	↑1	97
46	Ray	109	↑3	60
47	Marvin	106	↓2	45
48	Jerry	105	new	43
49	Leon	102	new	84
50	Lee	99	new	90

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