Popular baby names in Arkansas, 1917

The most popular baby names in Arkansas in 1917 were Mary for girls (957 babies) and James for boys (985). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 32,849 babies born in Arkansas in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arkansas in 1917

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

Girls

Floy: 42 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Tressie: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Florene: 15 babies, 7× the national rate
Freddie: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Maudie: 31 babies, 6× the national rate
Odell: 15 babies, 6× the national rate
Jewell: 73 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Dessie: 24 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Alpha: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Lorene: 90 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Boys

Elvis: 15 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Jewel: 22 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Doyle: 48 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Otho: 15 babies, 9× the national rate
Coy: 24 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Fay: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Olen: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Troy: 41 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Odis: 18 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Charley: 45 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arkansas, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	957	–	1
2	Ruby	354	–	27
3	Ruth	323	–	5
4	Helen	319	↑3	2
5	Mildred	312	↓1	6
6	Dorothy	297	↓1	3
7	Hazel	236	↓1	31
8	Pauline	220	↑2	33
9	Margaret	217	↑6	4
10	Willie	208	↑1	72
11	Frances	198	↑5	9
12	Thelma	192	↓3	32
13	Edna	189	↑5	20
14	Gladys	178	↓6	23
15	Lois	176	↓2	43
16	Virginia	176	↑9	10
17	Marie	174	–	12
18	Annie	170	↓6	35
19	Ethel	164	↑8	24
20	Lucille	164	↑2	29
21	Martha	163	↓1	22
22	Opal	159	↓8	95
23	Edith	150	↑8	28
24	Elizabeth	146	↓3	8
25	Jessie	143	↑4	70
26	Bessie	138	↑2	61
27	Juanita	138	↑8	87
28	Mattie	138	↑15	94
29	Anna	137	↑3	7
30	Alice	136	↓6	13
31	Louise	136	↓8	19
32	Irene	135	↓13	17
33	Beatrice	132	–	39
34	Evelyn	125	↑2	11
35	Clara	120	↑9	41
36	Lillian	118	↓6	15
37	Emma	115	↑1	46
38	Bernice	112	↑7	42
39	Elsie	112	↓2	50
40	Lillie	111	↓14	86
41	Bertha	107	↑1	51
42	Velma	100	↑7	99
43	Alma	99	new	71
44	Myrtle	97	↓3	58
45	Georgia	92	↑1	>100
46	Vera	92	↓7	66
47	Geneva	91	↓13	>100
48	Lorene	90	new	>100
49	Nellie	89	new	64
50	Pearl	88	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	James	985	–	3
2	William	716	–	2
3	John	679	–	1
4	Robert	523	–	4
5	Charles	317	–	7
6	George	312	–	6
7	Willie	261	↑2	31
8	Henry	227	↓1	15
9	Thomas	225	↓1	10
10	Joe	183	↑1	35
11	Joseph	161	↑1	5
12	Edward	157	↑6	8
13	Paul	156	↑1	13
14	Walter	155	↓1	11
15	Frank	154	↑5	9
16	Roy	149	↓6	33
17	Carl	134	↓2	24
18	Clarence	131	↑3	25
19	Fred	131	↓2	29
20	Albert	128	↑5	18
21	Raymond	126	↓2	16
22	Earl	118	–	32
23	Jack	118	↓7	22
24	Ralph	116	–	21
25	Harold	114	↑6	12
26	Arthur	107	–	17
27	Jessie	107	↑15	>100
28	Richard	107	↓1	14
29	Cecil	104	–	83
30	Ernest	98	↑14	37
31	Howard	97	↑16	26
32	Woodrow	97	↓9	73
33	Clyde	96	↑5	64
34	Charlie	95	–	67
35	Jesse	93	↑1	79
36	Louis	90	↓3	23
37	Herman	89	↑2	58
38	Lee	87	↓10	85
39	David	86	↓4	28
40	Floyd	85	↓10	62
41	Samuel	85	new	42
42	Lloyd	79	new	53
43	Eugene	77	↓6	39
44	Harry	75	↓3	19
45	Andrew	74	↑5	48
46	Lawrence	72	new	36
47	Ray	72	↓15	74
48	Herbert	69	↓3	40
49	Oscar	68	–	87
50	Leroy	67	new	60

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