Popular baby names in Alabama, 1937

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1937 were Mary for girls (2,156 babies) and James for boys (2,256). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,569 babies born in Alabama in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1937

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: 16 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Voncile: 18 babies, 19.5× the national rate
Nella: 17 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Gussie: 29 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Jimmie: 99 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lizzie: 54 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Robbie: 47 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Syble: 21 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Lucile: 38 babies, 6× the national rate
Johnnie: 136 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Boys

Earlie: 15 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Rayford: 30 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Rayburn: 18 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Hoyt: 22 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Waymon: 15 babies, 7× the national rate
Carey: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Fletcher: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Tommie: 84 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Willie: 924 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Hollis: 26 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	2,156	–	1
2	Betty	1,242	–	5
3	Barbara	765	↑3	2
4	Shirley	670	↓1	4
5	Annie	667	↓1	46
6	Dorothy	639	↓1	8
7	Martha	514	–	24
8	Margaret	389	–	10
9	Doris	345	–	22
10	Peggy	344	↑2	31
11	Willie	320	↓1	>100
12	Sarah	312	↑1	65
13	Carolyn	311	↑4	20
14	Helen	309	–	12
15	Ruby	308	–	52
16	Patricia	296	↑5	3
17	Frances	281	↓6	19
18	Elizabeth	269	↓2	17
19	Joyce	250	↓1	11
20	Virginia	240	↓1	16
21	Louise	223	↑5	48
22	Mattie	214	↓2	>100
23	Mildred	214	↓1	43
24	Evelyn	202	↑1	36
25	Emma	198	↑5	89
26	Ruth	195	↑6	15
27	Bobbie	185	↓4	>100
28	Lillie	183	↓4	>100
29	Edna	181	↓1	74
30	Nancy	179	↑1	7
31	Sara	176	↑5	>100
32	Alice	164	↓5	28
33	Jean	161	new	23
34	Shelby	155	new	>100
35	Ann	153	↓2	30
36	Jo	151	↑4	73
37	Juanita	150	↓3	75
38	Marie	146	new	35
39	Ethel	145	↓2	88
40	Minnie	145	↓5	>100
41	Clara	144	↓12	100
42	Jessie	144	↓3	>100
43	Nellie	143	↓5	>100
44	Catherine	142	↓2	47
45	Gladys	141	↑3	86
46	Johnnie	136	–	>100
47	Gloria	131	new	32
48	Bernice	127	new	>100
49	Patsy	124	new	54
50	Carrie	122	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	James	2,256	–	2
2	John	1,249	–	3
3	William	1,222	–	4
4	Robert	1,112	–	1
5	Charles	1,083	–	6
6	Willie	924	–	32
7	Billy	675	–	22
8	George	516	↑2	10
9	Bobby	487	↓1	24
10	Thomas	485	↑1	9
11	Joe	465	↓2	25
12	Donald	380	–	7
13	Jimmy	366	↑1	45
14	Jerry	323	↑2	17
15	Henry	313	↓2	30
16	David	302	↓1	8
17	Edward	283	–	13
18	Joseph	264	–	12
19	Walter	252	↑1	26
20	Kenneth	242	↑7	14
21	Richard	242	↓2	5
22	Frank	222	↓1	18
23	Harold	218	↓1	21
24	Johnny	211	↑2	69
25	Eddie	206	↑5	83
26	Charlie	203	↓3	>100
27	Arthur	182	↑5	31
28	Paul	182	–	15
29	Jack	174	↓5	23
30	Roy	173	↓1	40
31	Jimmie	172	↓6	72
32	Fred	171	↑2	35
33	Eugene	157	↑4	33
34	Gerald	148	↑14	20
35	Albert	145	↑4	37
36	Clarence	144	↓5	54
37	Samuel	144	↑1	66
38	Carl	143	↓2	28
39	Johnnie	133	↓6	>100
40	Raymond	132	↑1	19
41	Howard	130	↓6	42
42	Ralph	127	↓2	34
43	Jesse	120	–	>100
44	Curtis	116	new	>100
45	Ronald	116	new	11
46	Ernest	112	–	53
47	Melvin	107	new	50
48	Tommy	106	↑1	84
49	Wayne	106	new	44
50	Cecil	105	↓5	>100

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