Popular baby names in Alabama, 1946

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1946 were Mary for girls (2,106 babies) and James for boys (2,711). Social Security records list 71,212 babies born in Alabama in 1946 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1946

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: 24 babies, 28.8× the national rate
Jimmie: 62 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Lucile: 18 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Mattie: 174 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Lula: 109 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Callie: 19 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Bettye: 105 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Annie: 525 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Willie: 235 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Pearlie: 46 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Booker: 22 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Willie: 961 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Johnie: 22 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Charlie: 202 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Tommie: 66 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Cleveland: 34 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Grady: 48 babies, 5× the national rate
Winston: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Roosevelt: 53 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Emmett: 37 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1946

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	Mary	2,106	–	1
2	Linda	1,427	–	2
3	Barbara	1,047	–	4
4	Betty	1,045	–	14
5	Patricia	958	–	3
6	Carolyn	738	↑1	12
7	Shirley	688	↓1	18
8	Brenda	671	↑5	24
9	Sandra	646	↑2	6
10	Dorothy	636	↓2	23
11	Judy	583	↑1	11
12	Martha	578	↓2	32
13	Annie	525	↓4	97
14	Margaret	427	–	17
15	Janice	398	↑5	22
16	Peggy	374	↑2	43
17	Joyce	353	↓1	20
18	Carol	352	↑3	5
19	Nancy	350	↑4	7
20	Elizabeth	347	↓3	25
21	Glenda	341	↑8	99
22	Gloria	333	↓7	26
23	Sarah	322	↓1	92
24	Helen	307	↑1	36
25	Doris	304	↓6	51
26	Wanda	252	↑8	59
27	Frances	243	↓1	39
28	Virginia	239	↓1	31
29	Willie	235	↓5	>100
30	Sharon	232	↑11	9
31	Alice	230	↓3	44
32	Ruby	229	↓2	>100
33	Charlotte	200	↓1	64
34	Patsy	196	↑11	85
35	Jo	195	–	53
36	Donna	190	↑12	13
37	Rebecca	184	↓4	68
38	Susan	184	new	8
39	Judith	181	↓8	10
40	Geraldine	177	–	66
41	Mattie	174	↓5	>100
42	Joan	159	new	28
43	Juanita	158	new	>100
44	Catherine	151	↓1	48
45	Julia	142	↓1	>100
46	Beverly	141	new	30
47	Evelyn	141	↓9	65
48	Ann	136	↓6	40
49	Jane	135	new	35
50	Emma	134	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	James	2,711	–	1
2	John	1,488	↑1	3
3	William	1,439	↓1	4
4	Robert	1,428	–	2
5	Charles	1,211	–	9
6	Willie	961	–	40
7	Larry	838	↑1	11
8	Jerry	821	↓1	20
9	David	685	↑3	6
10	Thomas	671	↓1	8
11	Jimmy	593	–	42
12	George	554	↓2	16
13	Richard	547	↑1	5
14	Billy	526	↓1	45
15	Donald	488	–	13
16	Johnny	486	–	47
17	Bobby	479	–	53
18	Ronald	458	↑5	10
19	Joseph	428	↓1	14
20	Kenneth	408	–	15
21	Joe	369	↓2	37
22	Henry	356	–	41
23	Gary	334	↑3	12
24	Edward	330	↓3	19
25	Walter	327	↓1	30
26	Michael	316	↓1	7
27	Roger	278	↑5	23
28	Roy	255	↓1	43
29	Paul	245	↓1	18
30	Harold	240	–	33
31	Eddie	237	–	85
32	Samuel	229	↑3	70
33	Arthur	221	–	36
34	Frank	220	↓5	22
35	Tommy	218	↑1	77
36	Terry	208	↑9	26
37	Jimmie	204	–	>100
38	Charlie	202	↓4	>100
39	Danny	196	new	46
40	Clarence	187	–	89
41	Ronnie	176	new	54
42	Wayne	165	↑4	29
43	Albert	162	↓2	52
44	Carl	154	↓1	39
45	Gerald	151	new	27
46	Jack	150	↑1	35
47	Raymond	150	↓8	25
48	Douglas	143	↓10	34
49	Fred	142	↓5	51
50	Howard	142	new	55

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