Popular baby names in Alabama, 1942

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1942 were Mary for girls (2,353 babies) and James for boys (2,737). Social Security records list 65,766 babies born in Alabama in 1942 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1942

Names given at least 15 times in Alabama that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Syble: 25 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Callie: 33 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Charlie: 21 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Willie: 333 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Jimmie: 85 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Odessa: 29 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Bettye: 113 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 159 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Annie: 615 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Earnestine: 59 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Rayford: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Hoyt: 21 babies, 8× the national rate
Wilburn: 24 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Houston: 19 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lamar: 34 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Anderson: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Willie: 968 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Tommie: 77 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 76 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Mac: 46 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1942

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Mary	2,353	–	1
2	Betty	1,046	–	9
3	Barbara	1,030	–	2
4	Dorothy	774	–	17
5	Linda	746	–	4
6	Patricia	684	–	3
7	Martha	662	↑1	29
8	Carolyn	645	↑2	10
9	Shirley	622	–	12
10	Annie	615	↓3	62
11	Margaret	444	–	14
12	Joyce	395	↑1	13
13	Sandra	373	↑5	6
14	Elizabeth	361	↑1	22
15	Doris	345	↓1	41
16	Peggy	341	↓4	42
17	Sarah	334	–	67
18	Willie	333	↑3	>100
19	Brenda	290	↑5	40
20	Helen	288	↓4	26
21	Nancy	285	↓1	8
22	Frances	264	↓3	30
23	Judy	257	↑3	15
24	Virginia	255	↓1	23
25	Ruby	254	↓3	77
26	Alice	252	↑1	39
27	Gloria	252	↓2	31
28	Glenda	249	↑1	89
29	Carol	235	↑9	5
30	Janice	233	↑1	25
31	Patsy	211	↓3	57
32	Lillie	197	↑7	>100
33	Emma	192	↓3	>100
34	Jo	189	↓1	65
35	Wanda	183	–	54
36	Mattie	181	↓4	>100
37	Minnie	181	↑10	>100
38	Mildred	175	↑8	71
39	Evelyn	170	↑2	53
40	Judith	168	↑4	7
41	Ann	166	new	38
42	Charlotte	165	–	51
43	Louise	161	↓7	61
44	Johnnie	159	↑5	>100
45	Julia	154	new	95
46	Geraldine	152	↓12	47
47	Juanita	152	↑3	90
48	Catherine	149	new	49
49	Sara	149	↓1	>100
50	Bobbie	148	↓5	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	James	2,737	–	1
2	William	1,433	–	4
3	Robert	1,325	↑1	2
4	John	1,321	↓1	3
5	Charles	1,166	–	7
6	Willie	968	–	37
7	Jerry	745	↑1	16
8	Billy	647	↓1	35
9	Thomas	588	↑2	8
10	Bobby	534	↓1	43
11	George	530	↓1	14
12	David	499	↑1	6
13	Jimmy	499	↓1	47
14	Donald	453	↑1	10
15	Larry	429	↑4	12
16	Joe	424	↓2	33
17	Johnny	385	↑5	55
18	Joseph	376	↓1	11
19	Richard	367	↑1	5
20	Henry	350	↓2	31
21	Douglas	320	new	23
22	Edward	312	↓6	17
23	Kenneth	312	↓2	15
24	Roy	267	↑2	42
25	Walter	264	↓2	26
26	Ronald	242	↑5	9
27	Paul	237	↑1	19
28	Frank	234	↓3	21
29	Arthur	226	↑4	29
30	Tommy	220	↑10	73
31	Eddie	216	↓4	86
32	Harold	216	↓8	27
33	Samuel	205	↑1	59
34	Raymond	196	↑3	24
35	Charlie	189	↓6	>100
36	Clarence	174	↓6	67
37	Albert	172	↓2	40
38	Jimmie	170	↓6	94
39	Jack	169	↑7	34
40	Wayne	163	↓1	41
41	Eugene	160	↑4	45
42	Fred	155	↑1	46
43	Howard	152	↓7	49
44	Gerald	145	↓2	22
45	Johnnie	144	↓1	>100
46	Carl	140	↓8	36
47	Ralph	138	–	38
48	Gary	136	new	18
49	Michael	134	new	13
50	Curtis	124	new	98

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