Popular baby names in Alabama, 1941

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1941 were Mary for girls (2,100 babies) and James for boys (2,404). Social Security records list 59,165 babies born in Alabama in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1941

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: 22 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Syble: 15 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Charlie: 18 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Annie: 602 babies, 6× the national rate
Ola: 45 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Robbie: 44 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Callie: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Johnnie: 141 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Willie: 262 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jimmie: 64 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Boys

Rayburn: 21 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Hoyt: 18 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Carey: 16 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Willie: 932 babies, 6× the national rate
Lamar: 29 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 80 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Grady: 56 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Will: 28 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Charlie: 203 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Tommie: 64 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Mary	2,100	–	1
2	Betty	1,010	–	7
3	Barbara	915	–	2
4	Dorothy	657	–	14
5	Linda	604	↑7	5
6	Patricia	603	↑2	3
7	Annie	602	↓2	59
8	Martha	560	↓1	25
9	Shirley	530	↓3	10
10	Carolyn	479	–	11
11	Margaret	424	↓2	12
12	Peggy	377	↑1	39
13	Joyce	365	↑2	13
14	Doris	356	↓3	38
15	Elizabeth	300	↑1	21
16	Helen	280	↑3	24
17	Sarah	280	↓3	60
18	Sandra	278	↑10	9
19	Frances	274	↑2	31
20	Nancy	268	↑5	8
21	Willie	262	↓3	>100
22	Ruby	256	↓2	69
23	Virginia	256	↓6	23
24	Brenda	252	↑16	41
25	Gloria	235	↑4	26
26	Judy	214	↑17	16
27	Alice	213	↓5	34
28	Patsy	196	↑17	52
29	Glenda	189	↑6	96
30	Emma	188	↓3	99
31	Janice	186	↑2	22
32	Mattie	178	↓9	>100
33	Jo	164	new	66
34	Geraldine	161	–	45
35	Wanda	160	↑14	53
36	Louise	159	↓5	62
37	Edna	158	↑2	89
38	Carol	156	↑3	4
39	Lillie	156	↓9	>100
40	Bonnie	155	↑8	33
41	Evelyn	155	↓15	50
42	Charlotte	153	↑4	55
43	Rebecca	152	↑1	86
44	Judith	150	new	6
45	Bobbie	149	↓8	>100
46	Mildred	146	↓22	64
47	Minnie	145	new	>100
48	Sara	142	↓1	>100
49	Johnnie	141	new	>100
50	Juanita	135	↓18	84

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	James	2,404	–	1
2	William	1,283	↑1	4
3	John	1,206	↓1	3
4	Robert	1,171	–	2
5	Charles	1,089	–	6
6	Willie	932	–	36
7	Billy	679	–	27
8	Jerry	637	–	14
9	Bobby	511	–	35
10	George	507	↑1	13
11	Thomas	482	↓1	8
12	Jimmy	458	–	45
13	David	443	↑1	7
14	Joe	420	↓1	30
15	Donald	388	–	10
16	Edward	351	↑2	17
17	Joseph	339	–	12
18	Henry	329	↓2	28
19	Larry	312	↑12	11
20	Richard	291	↑1	5
21	Kenneth	278	↓2	15
22	Johnny	276	↓2	55
23	Walter	269	↓1	26
24	Harold	236	↑1	24
25	Frank	229	↓2	21
26	Roy	225	↓2	39
27	Eddie	219	↓1	78
28	Paul	212	↓1	18
29	Charlie	203	↑1	>100
30	Clarence	199	↑4	62
31	Ronald	186	↑1	9
32	Jimmie	183	↑1	89
33	Arthur	182	↓4	33
34	Samuel	173	↓6	65
35	Albert	164	↑9	40
36	Howard	162	↑6	47
37	Raymond	162	↑1	22
38	Carl	159	↓1	29
39	Wayne	158	↓3	37
40	Tommy	153	–	71
41	Jesse	140	↑2	99
42	Gerald	138	↑3	20
43	Fred	137	↓2	43
44	Johnnie	136	↑2	>100
45	Eugene	132	↓10	42
46	Jack	131	↓7	32
47	Ralph	125	–	38
48	Leon	120	↑2	93
49	Marvin	113	new	63
50	Melvin	108	new	56

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