Popular baby names in Alabama, 1944

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1944 were Mary for girls (2,080 babies) and James for boys (2,650). Social Security records list 64,709 babies born in Alabama in 1944 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1944

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: 17 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Annie: 567 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Bettye: 108 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Willie: 284 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Callie: 26 babies, 6× the national rate
Jewel: 50 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Eddie: 38 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Elouise: 23 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Johnnie: 145 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Ola: 40 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 17 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Huey: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Hoyt: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Lamar: 33 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Will: 34 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Mcarthur: 19 babies, 6× the national rate
Willie: 969 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Hollis: 21 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Charlie: 235 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Monroe: 23 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	2,080	–	1
2	Linda	1,171	↑2	3
3	Barbara	987	–	2
4	Betty	965	↓2	10
5	Patricia	756	–	4
6	Carolyn	659	↑1	11
7	Dorothy	656	↓1	19
8	Shirley	626	–	15
9	Martha	618	–	29
10	Annie	567	–	71
11	Sandra	500	–	6
12	Brenda	450	↑1	30
13	Judy	394	↑6	12
14	Margaret	377	↓2	14
15	Elizabeth	351	–	23
16	Peggy	341	↑1	45
17	Nancy	316	↑1	7
18	Doris	313	↓2	42
19	Joyce	313	↓5	18
20	Sarah	295	–	67
21	Willie	284	↑1	>100
22	Carol	283	↑1	5
23	Glenda	271	↑3	79
24	Gloria	268	↑4	25
25	Janice	262	↑5	28
26	Helen	258	↓5	31
27	Frances	242	↓2	33
28	Virginia	235	↓4	26
29	Alice	226	–	38
30	Ruby	213	↓3	87
31	Charlotte	205	–	50
32	Judith	202	↑3	9
33	Rebecca	183	–	84
34	Mildred	174	–	81
35	Wanda	162	↓3	58
36	Ann	157	↑1	39
37	Evelyn	156	↑5	57
38	Emma	154	↑2	>100
39	Mattie	154	↑2	>100
40	Patsy	154	↓4	72
41	Jo	153	↓3	61
42	Lillie	150	↓3	>100
43	Geraldine	147	↑3	53
44	Johnnie	145	new	>100
45	Juanita	144	new	94
46	Louise	140	new	69
47	Bobbie	139	↓4	>100
48	Edna	136	↓4	>100
49	Bertha	135	new	>100
50	Joan	132	–	22

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	James	2,650	–	1
2	William	1,416	–	4
3	Robert	1,381	↑1	2
4	John	1,325	↓1	3
5	Charles	1,126	–	7
6	Willie	969	–	31
7	Jerry	739	–	19
8	Thomas	587	–	8
9	Jimmy	545	↑4	41
10	Billy	539	↓1	38
11	George	529	↓1	14
12	Larry	520	↑2	12
13	David	495	↓1	6
14	Donald	477	↑1	11
15	Bobby	435	↓4	50
16	Richard	408	↑1	5
17	Johnny	400	↓1	45
18	Joseph	386	↑1	13
19	Joe	370	↓1	33
20	Henry	348	–	35
21	Edward	323	–	18
22	Kenneth	322	–	16
23	Ronald	315	↑1	10
24	Walter	303	↓1	26
25	Roy	268	–	39
26	Frank	251	↑3	21
27	Roger	246	↑21	23
28	Paul	239	↓2	17
29	Charlie	235	↑5	>100
30	Tommy	222	↑3	70
31	Harold	212	↓3	27
32	Eddie	210	↓5	79
33	Arthur	204	↓3	29
34	Gary	201	↑5	15
35	Michael	187	↑8	9
36	Albert	183	↑6	44
37	Jimmie	183	↓1	98
38	Samuel	175	↓3	62
39	Clarence	167	↓8	74
40	Wayne	167	↓2	37
41	Jack	164	↑6	30
42	Douglas	160	↓10	34
43	Fred	148	↓2	47
44	Carl	145	↓7	36
45	Howard	144	–	53
46	Raymond	142	↓2	22
47	Jesse	137	↓7	>100
48	Gerald	135	↓2	24
49	Johnnie	133	new	>100
50	Curtis	128	–	97

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