Popular baby names in Alabama, 1932

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1932 were Mary for girls (2,341 babies) and James for boys (2,273). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 57,645 babies born in Alabama in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1932

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, 18.6× the national rate
Voncile: 15 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Odell: 23 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Era: 16 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Mittie: 19 babies, 9× the national rate
Rosia: 15 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Myrtice: 20 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Myrtis: 21 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Delois: 25 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Callie: 34 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Hoyt: 26 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Rayford: 17 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Winford: 15 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Willie: 1,004 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Tommie: 71 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Buford: 33 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Booker: 22 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Columbus: 15 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Rosevelt: 15 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Odis: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	2,341	–	1
2	Betty	1,351	–	2
3	Annie	805	↑1	41
4	Dorothy	786	↓1	4
5	Margaret	415	↑3	7
6	Martha	404	–	27
7	Helen	402	↑2	8
8	Willie	392	↓1	91
9	Doris	388	↓4	10
10	Barbara	354	↑10	3
11	Ruby	354	↓1	38
12	Frances	340	–	19
13	Mildred	312	↓2	26
14	Sarah	310	–	67
15	Elizabeth	309	↓2	17
16	Louise	276	↓1	36
17	Mattie	272	↑1	>100
18	Ruth	268	↓2	11
19	Joyce	252	↑3	12
20	Lillie	251	↑1	>100
21	Evelyn	240	↓2	23
22	Virginia	229	↓5	14
23	Emma	221	↑1	76
24	Peggy	218	↑2	40
25	Edna	215	–	50
26	Juanita	200	↑7	58
27	Clara	198	↓4	70
28	Alice	196	↓1	21
29	Hazel	191	↓1	75
30	Nellie	191	↑7	>100
31	Bobbie	190	↑10	>100
32	Bernice	189	↑8	71
33	Ethel	178	↓2	66
34	Minnie	178	↑1	>100
35	Catherine	171	↑10	39
36	Carrie	170	↑14	>100
37	Sara	169	↓8	>100
38	Gladys	168	↓4	54
39	Lois	167	↓9	20
40	Jean	163	↓4	15
41	Billie	162	↓2	93
42	Rosie	162	new	>100
43	Bertha	161	↑3	>100
44	Bessie	161	↓6	>100
45	Marie	158	↓13	31
46	Thelma	151	↓3	51
47	Carolyn	148	–	46
48	Jessie	145	↓6	>100
49	Ann	144	new	34
50	Lillian	138	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	James	2,273	–	2
2	William	1,415	–	4
3	John	1,258	–	3
4	Robert	1,157	–	1
5	Charles	1,045	–	6
6	Willie	1,004	–	31
7	Billy	677	–	20
8	George	497	↑1	8
9	Thomas	479	↓1	10
10	Bobby	357	↑4	30
11	Joe	351	–	29
12	Henry	306	–	23
13	Edward	304	↓3	11
14	Walter	301	↑3	21
15	Joseph	294	↓2	9
16	Donald	278	↑7	7
17	Richard	266	↑1	5
18	Frank	258	↑2	15
19	David	246	↓4	12
20	Harold	240	↓1	18
21	Jack	231	↓5	17
22	Charlie	229	↓1	90
23	Clarence	202	↑1	40
24	Eddie	197	↑5	91
25	Arthur	196	↑2	25
26	Fred	196	↓4	33
27	Jimmie	195	↑1	75
28	Eugene	194	↓2	22
29	Roy	188	↓4	38
30	Samuel	188	↑2	56
31	Johnnie	177	–	>100
32	Kenneth	171	↑6	14
33	Paul	165	–	13
34	Albert	160	↓4	26
35	Howard	159	↓1	36
36	Earl	155	↑4	41
37	Carl	151	↑2	28
38	Ralph	145	↓2	27
39	Jimmy	140	new	76
40	Johnny	139	↑4	96
41	Jerry	138	↑7	34
42	Curtis	133	–	>100
43	Raymond	130	↓2	19
44	Jessie	128	↓9	>100
45	Leon	116	↑4	83
46	Herbert	115	↓9	44
47	Franklin	112	new	66
48	Melvin	108	new	51
49	Clyde	106	new	82
50	Leroy	105	new	53

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