Popular baby names in Arkansas, 1918

The most popular baby names in Arkansas in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,048 babies) and James for boys (1,156). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 35,718 babies born in Arkansas in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arkansas in 1918

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: 32 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Dovie: 27 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Syble: 22 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Johnie: 23 babies, 7× the national rate
Ruthie: 21 babies, 7× the national rate
Earnestine: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Charlene: 27 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Retha: 24 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Dortha: 19 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Veda: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Boys

Odis: 23 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Coy: 34 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Doyle: 43 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Troy: 57 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Quinton: 18 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Wilburn: 30 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Houston: 16 babies, 6× the national rate
Claud: 30 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Charley: 43 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 30 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arkansas, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,048	–	1
2	Mildred	409	↑3	6
3	Ruby	375	↓1	27
4	Ruth	359	↓1	5
5	Helen	319	↓1	2
6	Hazel	306	↑1	33
7	Dorothy	298	↓1	3
8	Margaret	250	↑1	4
9	Thelma	231	↑3	32
10	Gladys	230	↑4	22
11	Willie	220	↓1	70
12	Martha	208	↑9	25
13	Pauline	205	↓5	35
14	Marie	186	↑3	12
15	Edna	185	↓2	23
16	Frances	183	↓5	8
17	Opal	182	↑5	94
18	Virginia	180	↓2	7
19	Annie	178	↓1	36
20	Lucille	176	–	29
21	Louise	175	↑10	18
22	Lois	172	↓7	42
23	Edith	169	–	30
24	Juanita	165	↑3	85
25	Ethel	163	↓6	28
26	Anna	153	↑3	10
27	Elizabeth	149	↓3	9
28	Irene	146	↑4	16
29	Jessie	141	↓4	75
30	Evelyn	140	↑4	11
31	Elsie	134	↑8	49
32	Bernice	132	↑6	41
33	Emma	132	↑4	46
34	Bessie	131	↓8	61
35	Velma	131	↑7	>100
36	Bertha	130	↑5	51
37	Lillie	129	↑3	89
38	Lillian	125	↓2	15
39	Alice	122	↓9	13
40	Geneva	122	↑7	>100
41	Clara	119	↓6	43
42	Mattie	117	↓14	100
43	Lorene	111	↑5	>100
44	Myrtle	111	–	62
45	Vera	101	↑1	68
46	Eva	100	new	55
47	Minnie	98	new	88
48	Wilma	98	new	82
49	Pearl	96	↑1	56
50	Nellie	95	↓1	65

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	1,156	–	3
2	William	810	–	2
3	John	782	–	1
4	Robert	512	–	4
5	George	350	↑1	6
6	Charles	349	↓1	5
7	Willie	250	–	29
8	Thomas	248	↑1	10
9	Henry	207	↓1	16
10	Joe	201	–	34
11	Raymond	180	↑10	15
12	Frank	179	↑3	9
13	Roy	173	↑3	32
14	Edward	172	↓2	8
15	Paul	164	↓2	14
16	Walter	164	↓2	11
17	Joseph	157	↓6	7
18	Carl	147	↓1	25
19	Woodrow	133	↑13	58
20	Albert	132	–	19
21	Clarence	131	↓3	23
22	Earl	126	–	31
23	Fred	126	↓4	33
24	Jack	123	↓1	21
25	Harold	122	–	13
26	Richard	121	↑2	12
27	Ralph	115	↓3	22
28	Arthur	109	↓2	17
29	Eugene	109	↑14	35
30	David	107	↑9	28
31	Cecil	106	↓2	82
32	Jesse	105	↑3	78
33	Ernest	102	↓3	37
34	Floyd	99	↑6	61
35	Charlie	92	↓1	70
36	Howard	88	↓5	26
37	Ray	86	↑10	69
38	Clyde	85	↓5	67
39	Samuel	80	↑2	43
40	Elmer	78	new	44
41	Herbert	78	↑7	40
42	Louis	78	↓6	24
43	Vernon	78	new	66
44	Harry	77	–	20
45	Marvin	77	new	68
46	Johnnie	76	new	>100
47	Leon	76	new	77
48	Jessie	74	↓21	>100
49	Lee	72	↓11	86
50	Homer	70	new	100

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