Popular baby names in Alabama, 1945

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1945 were Mary for girls (2,082 babies) and James for boys (2,493). Social Security records list 62,510 babies born in Alabama in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1945

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

Girls

Callie: 29 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Lucile: 23 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Annie: 590 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Willie: 276 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Lizzie: 40 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Mattie: 156 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Nell: 26 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Johnnie: 130 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Bettye: 91 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Eddie: 30 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Houston: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Grady: 65 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Will: 29 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Roosevelt: 80 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Major: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Travis: 42 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mac: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Willie: 924 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Tommie: 77 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Mary	2,082	–	1
2	Linda	1,168	–	2
3	Barbara	975	–	3
4	Betty	944	–	11
5	Patricia	836	–	4
6	Shirley	670	↑2	14
7	Carolyn	633	↓1	12
8	Dorothy	626	↓1	21
9	Annie	590	↑1	69
10	Martha	532	↓1	30
11	Sandra	485	–	6
12	Judy	432	↑1	13
13	Brenda	414	↓1	29
14	Margaret	403	–	15
15	Gloria	339	↑9	23
16	Joyce	330	↑3	18
17	Elizabeth	320	↓2	26
18	Peggy	313	↓2	45
19	Doris	312	↓1	46
20	Janice	301	↑5	24
21	Carol	300	↑1	5
22	Sarah	279	↓2	76
23	Nancy	278	↓6	7
24	Willie	276	↓3	>100
25	Helen	240	↑1	31
26	Frances	237	↑1	34
27	Virginia	236	↑1	28
28	Alice	220	↑1	41
29	Glenda	211	↓6	92
30	Ruby	206	–	95
31	Judith	192	↑1	9
32	Charlotte	188	↓1	55
33	Rebecca	182	–	85
34	Wanda	181	↑1	58
35	Jo	164	↑6	60
36	Mattie	156	↑3	>100
37	Mildred	153	↓3	93
38	Evelyn	152	↓1	57
39	Lillie	150	↑3	>100
40	Geraldine	149	↑3	56
41	Sharon	149	new	8
42	Ann	148	↓6	39
43	Catherine	147	new	50
44	Julia	145	new	>100
45	Patsy	141	↓5	84
46	Emma	135	↓8	>100
47	Johnnie	130	↓3	>100
48	Donna	129	new	17
49	Edna	128	↓1	>100
50	Bobbie	127	↓3	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	James	2,493	–	1
2	William	1,342	–	4
3	John	1,282	↑1	3
4	Robert	1,261	↓1	2
5	Charles	1,089	–	7
6	Willie	924	–	31
7	Jerry	697	–	20
8	Larry	573	↑4	11
9	Thomas	565	↓1	8
10	George	542	↑1	15
11	Jimmy	521	↓2	41
12	David	490	↑1	6
13	Billy	479	↓3	42
14	Richard	442	↑2	5
15	Donald	415	↓1	12
16	Johnny	411	↑1	45
17	Bobby	402	↓2	53
18	Joseph	386	–	14
19	Joe	328	–	36
20	Kenneth	327	↑2	16
21	Edward	311	–	18
22	Henry	295	↓2	37
23	Ronald	290	–	10
24	Walter	290	–	27
25	Michael	259	↑10	9
26	Gary	253	↑8	13
27	Roy	234	↓2	40
28	Paul	231	–	17
29	Frank	228	↓3	21
30	Harold	228	↑1	28
31	Eddie	227	↑1	81
32	Roger	202	↓5	22
33	Arthur	196	–	34
34	Charlie	189	↓5	>100
35	Samuel	187	↑3	62
36	Tommy	178	↓6	75
37	Jimmie	165	–	>100
38	Douglas	163	↑4	29
39	Raymond	163	↑7	23
40	Clarence	158	↓1	82
41	Albert	152	↓5	49
42	Eugene	150	new	50
43	Carl	148	↑1	39
44	Fred	142	↓1	51
45	Terry	142	new	33
46	Wayne	140	↓6	35
47	Jack	135	↓6	32
48	Melvin	133	new	78
49	Ralph	126	new	44
50	Curtis	124	–	97

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