Popular baby names in Alabama, 1933

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1933 were Mary for girls (2,109 babies) and James for boys (2,183). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 53,013 babies born in Alabama in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1933

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: 22 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Voncile: 17 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Inell: 18 babies, 11× the national rate
Rosia: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Gussie: 30 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Charlie: 30 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Pearlie: 51 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jimmie: 94 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Callie: 34 babies, 6× the national rate
Ouida: 23 babies, 6× the national rate

Boys

Foy: 17 babies, 21.2× the national rate
Ocie: 16 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Rayford: 20 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Fletcher: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Booker: 25 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Mose: 15 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Will: 34 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Hoyt: 19 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Tommie: 75 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jeff: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	2,109	–	1
2	Betty	1,254	–	2
3	Annie	762	–	37
4	Dorothy	734	–	4
5	Barbara	416	↑5	3
6	Margaret	407	↓1	7
7	Doris	403	↑2	10
8	Martha	392	↓2	27
9	Helen	366	↓2	8
10	Willie	356	↓2	93
11	Ruby	347	–	43
12	Mildred	299	↑1	32
13	Sarah	297	↑1	58
14	Elizabeth	295	↑1	17
15	Frances	284	↓3	18
16	Louise	262	–	39
17	Ruth	253	↑1	13
18	Virginia	247	↑4	15
19	Joyce	246	–	12
20	Mattie	236	↓3	>100
21	Lillie	226	↓1	>100
22	Evelyn	224	↓1	30
23	Peggy	222	↑1	36
24	Edna	205	↑1	55
25	Bobbie	198	↑6	>100
26	Clara	190	↑1	67
27	Emma	189	↓4	75
28	Minnie	184	↑6	>100
29	Ethel	177	↑4	71
30	Carolyn	175	↑17	40
31	Alice	169	↓3	22
32	Juanita	167	↓6	63
33	Catherine	159	↑2	44
34	Nellie	156	↓4	>100
35	Hazel	155	↓6	82
36	Jean	153	↑4	14
37	Lois	151	↑2	19
38	Marie	151	↑7	33
39	Bessie	143	↑5	>100
40	Sara	143	↓3	>100
41	Jessie	139	↑7	>100
42	Bernice	138	↓10	83
43	Billie	138	↓2	92
44	Ann	135	↑5	34
45	Bertha	134	↓2	>100
46	Johnnie	134	new	>100
47	Ella	133	new	>100
48	Gladys	132	↓10	60
49	Thelma	128	↓3	57
50	Julia	126	new	97

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	James	2,183	–	2
2	William	1,208	–	4
3	John	1,153	–	3
4	Robert	1,044	–	1
5	Charles	980	–	6
6	Willie	808	–	32
7	Billy	652	–	20
8	George	480	–	8
9	Thomas	429	–	10
10	Bobby	419	–	26
11	Joe	308	–	27
12	Henry	282	–	24
13	Franklin	279	↑34	33
14	Donald	276	↑2	7
15	Joseph	267	–	9
16	Frank	257	↑2	16
17	Edward	250	↓4	11
18	Walter	236	↓4	21
19	David	222	–	13
20	Jack	220	↑1	17
21	Richard	216	↓4	5
22	Harold	211	↓2	18
23	Charlie	209	↓1	95
24	Arthur	191	↑1	25
25	Jimmie	187	↑2	72
26	Paul	184	↑7	14
27	Jimmy	181	↑12	64
28	Clarence	178	↓5	43
29	Eddie	172	↓5	93
30	Jerry	165	↑11	31
31	Howard	162	↑4	36
32	Roy	160	↓3	39
33	Samuel	157	↓3	61
34	Eugene	156	↓6	23
35	Fred	155	↓9	34
36	Roosevelt	155	new	>100
37	Kenneth	149	↓5	15
38	Johnny	148	↑2	90
39	Johnnie	133	↓8	>100
40	Albert	130	↓6	30
41	Carl	130	↓4	28
42	Raymond	123	↑1	19
43	Curtis	121	↓1	>100
44	Jessie	121	–	>100
45	Leon	116	–	85
46	Earl	114	↓10	41
47	Ralph	112	↓9	29
48	Ernest	109	new	50
49	Herman	97	new	96
50	Herbert	94	↓4	49

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