Popular baby names in Alabama, 1936

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1936 were Mary for girls (2,015 babies) and James for boys (2,201). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 55,190 babies born in Alabama in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1936

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: 19 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Willodean: 20 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Lue: 22 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Gaynell: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Charlie: 25 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Robbie: 55 babies, 7× the national rate
Mattie: 250 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Annie: 735 babies, 6× the national rate
Syble: 22 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Rubye: 15 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Rayford: 20 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Rayburn: 15 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Hoyt: 19 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Booker: 24 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Houston: 16 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 110 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Will: 35 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Hollis: 26 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Willie: 870 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Wiley: 37 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	2,015	–	1
2	Betty	1,266	–	4
3	Shirley	739	↑2	2
4	Annie	735	↓1	45
5	Dorothy	704	↓1	6
6	Barbara	617	–	3
7	Martha	467	–	24
8	Margaret	412	↑1	9
9	Doris	346	↓1	15
10	Willie	333	–	>100
11	Frances	330	↑3	19
12	Peggy	301	↑3	35
13	Sarah	294	↓1	63
14	Helen	288	↓1	11
15	Ruby	280	↓4	51
16	Elizabeth	273	↑1	18
17	Carolyn	259	↑5	23
18	Joyce	256	↓2	12
19	Virginia	254	↑1	14
20	Mattie	250	↑1	>100
21	Patricia	236	↑7	5
22	Mildred	226	↓4	40
23	Bobbie	215	–	>100
24	Lillie	201	–	>100
25	Evelyn	200	–	34
26	Louise	195	↓7	46
27	Alice	188	↑2	27
28	Edna	186	↓2	71
29	Clara	178	↑1	91
30	Emma	176	↑7	85
31	Nancy	173	new	8
32	Ruth	168	↓5	16
33	Ann	161	↑10	28
34	Juanita	161	↑6	75
35	Minnie	161	↓3	>100
36	Sara	158	↓2	>100
37	Ethel	151	↓4	90
38	Nellie	145	↓7	>100
39	Jessie	144	new	>100
40	Jo	144	↓1	72
41	Rosie	139	new	>100
42	Catherine	136	–	44
43	Ella	135	↑4	>100
44	Bertha	134	↑1	>100
45	Bessie	134	↓1	>100
46	Johnnie	132	new	>100
47	Billie	128	↑1	>100
48	Gladys	127	↓10	84
49	Norma	127	new	29
50	Hazel	126	–	96

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	James	2,201	–	2
2	John	1,139	↑1	3
3	William	1,137	↓1	4
4	Robert	1,108	–	1
5	Charles	1,006	–	6
6	Willie	870	–	32
7	Billy	706	–	22
8	Bobby	568	–	24
9	Joe	511	↑2	23
10	George	472	↓1	9
11	Thomas	444	↓1	8
12	Donald	349	–	7
13	Henry	307	–	28
14	Jimmy	295	↑3	46
15	David	293	↓1	10
16	Jerry	279	↑3	18
17	Edward	271	↓2	13
18	Joseph	265	–	11
19	Richard	257	↑3	5
20	Walter	254	↓4	26
21	Frank	238	↓1	16
22	Harold	208	↑2	21
23	Charlie	198	↑5	>100
24	Jack	197	↓3	20
25	Jimmie	191	–	71
26	Johnny	191	↑11	72
27	Kenneth	189	↑3	14
28	Paul	183	↓1	15
29	Roy	182	↓6	42
30	Eddie	175	↓4	79
31	Clarence	170	–	52
32	Arthur	165	↓3	30
33	Johnnie	157	↑5	>100
34	Fred	156	↓2	36
35	Howard	147	↓2	40
36	Carl	143	↑4	27
37	Eugene	142	↓1	29
38	Samuel	141	↓4	67
39	Albert	138	↓4	34
40	Ralph	138	↑3	31
41	Raymond	135	↓2	17
42	Franklin	134	↓1	64
43	Jesse	124	↑1	>100
44	Leon	119	↑5	82
45	Cecil	112	new	>100
46	Ernest	110	↑2	55
47	Roosevelt	110	↓1	>100
48	Gerald	108	new	19
49	Tommy	108	new	91
50	Jessie	106	↓8	>100

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