Popular baby names in Alabama, 1943

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1943 were Mary for girls (2,305 babies) and James for boys (2,898). Social Security records list 68,270 babies born in Alabama in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1943

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

Girls

Charlie: 24 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Lucile: 23 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Annie: 615 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jimmie: 86 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Willie: 289 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Pearlie: 47 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Mattie: 166 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Earnestine: 61 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Lizzie: 39 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Fannie: 89 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Boys

Rayburn: 19 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Rayford: 20 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lamar: 39 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Ollie: 30 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Hollis: 30 babies, 6× the national rate
Mcarthur: 25 babies, 6× the national rate
Tommie: 80 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Willie: 984 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Mac: 31 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 72 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	2,305	–	1
2	Betty	1,098	–	10
3	Barbara	1,077	–	2
4	Linda	980	↑1	4
5	Patricia	858	↑1	3
6	Dorothy	729	↓2	19
7	Carolyn	697	↑1	11
8	Shirley	655	↑1	12
9	Martha	617	↓2	29
10	Annie	615	–	69
11	Sandra	446	↑2	6
12	Margaret	423	↓1	14
13	Brenda	402	↑6	35
14	Joyce	401	↓2	16
15	Elizabeth	387	↓1	23
16	Doris	381	↓1	40
17	Peggy	376	↓1	41
18	Nancy	364	↑3	9
19	Judy	353	↑4	13
20	Sarah	303	↓3	71
21	Helen	292	↓1	28
22	Willie	289	↓4	>100
23	Carol	285	↑6	5
24	Virginia	278	–	25
25	Frances	266	↓3	31
26	Glenda	266	↑2	83
27	Ruby	254	↓2	82
28	Gloria	247	↓1	30
29	Alice	246	↓3	38
30	Janice	237	–	26
31	Charlotte	216	↑11	47
32	Wanda	197	↑3	56
33	Rebecca	191	new	87
34	Mildred	187	↑4	76
35	Judith	184	↑5	7
36	Patsy	184	↓5	61
37	Ann	181	↑4	37
38	Jo	178	↓4	63
39	Lillie	176	↓7	>100
40	Emma	174	↓7	>100
41	Mattie	166	↓5	>100
42	Evelyn	164	↓3	53
43	Bobbie	161	↑7	>100
44	Edna	157	new	>100
45	Bonnie	151	new	34
46	Geraldine	150	–	51
47	Sara	150	↑2	>100
48	Minnie	143	↓11	>100
49	Catherine	142	↓1	48
50	Joan	141	new	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	James	2,898	–	1
2	William	1,522	–	4
3	John	1,462	↑1	3
4	Robert	1,326	↓1	2
5	Charles	1,194	–	7
6	Willie	984	–	36
7	Jerry	805	–	17
8	Thomas	645	↑1	8
9	Billy	591	↓1	37
10	George	581	↑1	14
11	Bobby	559	↓1	46
12	David	537	–	6
13	Jimmy	503	–	42
14	Larry	502	↑1	12
15	Donald	459	↓1	11
16	Johnny	425	↑1	52
17	Richard	405	↑2	5
18	Joe	388	↓2	35
19	Joseph	388	↓1	13
20	Henry	380	–	31
21	Edward	357	↑1	18
22	Kenneth	352	↑1	15
23	Walter	316	↑2	26
24	Ronald	291	↑2	9
25	Roy	259	↓1	38
26	Paul	254	↑1	19
27	Eddie	250	↑4	80
28	Harold	247	↑4	27
29	Frank	237	↓1	21
30	Arthur	236	↓1	30
31	Clarence	208	↑5	68
32	Douglas	203	↓11	28
33	Tommy	202	↓3	77
34	Charlie	186	↑1	>100
35	Samuel	186	↓2	62
36	Jimmie	185	↑2	95
37	Carl	182	↑9	33
38	Wayne	168	↑2	41
39	Gary	167	↑9	16
40	Jesse	166	new	>100
41	Fred	164	↑1	45
42	Albert	162	↓5	43
43	Michael	162	↑6	10
44	Raymond	162	↓10	22
45	Howard	156	↓2	48
46	Gerald	150	↓2	23
47	Jack	149	↓8	34
48	Roger	144	new	24
49	Ralph	139	↓2	40
50	Curtis	138	–	100

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