Popular baby names in Arkansas, 1926

The most popular baby names in Arkansas in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,321 babies) and James for boys (1,458). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 38,938 babies born in Arkansas in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arkansas in 1926

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: 28 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Syble: 32 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Earnestine: 45 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Glenda: 20 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Bennie: 24 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Ruthie: 47 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Oma: 22 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Ava: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Earlene: 23 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Gertie: 15 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Boyce: 15 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Cleo: 37 babies, 8× the national rate
Odis: 24 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Odell: 29 babies, 7× the national rate
Hershel: 24 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Charley: 40 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Olen: 15 babies, 6× the national rate
Doyle: 46 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Troy: 47 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Wilburn: 29 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arkansas, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,321	–	1
2	Dorothy	605	–	2
3	Betty	506	–	3
4	Helen	393	–	4
5	Ruby	370	–	30
6	Mildred	313	–	9
7	Wanda	269	↑9	66
8	Virginia	256	–	8
9	Ruth	247	↓2	6
10	Martha	246	–	24
11	Juanita	238	–	52
12	Willie	238	–	73
13	Margaret	228	↓4	5
14	Thelma	207	↑7	36
15	Hazel	197	–	48
16	Frances	195	↓3	10
17	Doris	188	↑1	7
18	Annie	185	↓4	34
19	Louise	173	↑4	27
20	Lois	160	↑2	19
21	Evelyn	157	↓1	13
22	Marie	156	↑2	18
23	Anna	154	↑2	15
24	Lucille	150	↑11	43
25	Emma	148	↑3	59
26	Edna	146	↑4	38
27	Pauline	146	↓8	39
28	Alice	145	↑10	17
29	Gladys	145	↓12	35
30	Bonnie	138	new	>100
31	Elizabeth	138	↑6	11
32	Wilma	134	↓6	67
33	Jessie	133	↓1	93
34	Billie	132	↑11	>100
35	Opal	132	↑6	>100
36	Geneva	131	↓2	>100
37	Rosie	127	↑11	>100
38	Ethel	125	↓5	41
39	Lillie	124	↑3	99
40	Bertha	122	↑10	76
41	Maxine	119	↓5	85
42	Mattie	116	↓15	>100
43	Beatrice	114	–	58
44	Norma	114	–	29
45	Edith	113	↓14	42
46	Alma	112	–	91
47	Georgia	110	new	>100
48	Bernice	107	↓19	45
49	Bessie	101	new	89
50	Geraldine	95	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	1,458	–	3
2	William	851	–	4
3	John	779	–	2
4	Robert	709	–	1
5	Charles	612	–	5
6	George	412	–	6
7	Willie	308	↑1	28
8	Billy	288	↑4	40
9	Thomas	268	↓2	11
10	Joe	238	↓1	33
11	Jack	218	↑5	16
12	Harold	212	↓1	14
13	Henry	209	↓3	19
14	Roy	183	↓1	34
15	Edward	177	↓1	10
16	Paul	174	↓1	13
17	Raymond	167	↑3	15
18	Walter	161	–	17
19	Richard	153	↑6	7
20	Carl	146	↑6	26
21	Eugene	145	↓4	23
22	David	143	↑6	22
23	Frank	136	↓4	12
24	Earl	135	↑3	32
25	Floyd	135	↑4	53
26	Kenneth	133	↑4	18
27	Joseph	132	↓3	8
28	Clarence	123	↓7	29
29	Fred	123	↑2	31
30	Arthur	118	↑4	20
31	Donald	114	new	9
32	Samuel	111	↑14	48
33	Gerald	110	new	41
34	Ray	109	↑4	57
35	Cecil	108	↓3	86
36	Albert	106	↓13	21
37	Bobby	103	new	>100
38	Ralph	101	↓5	24
39	Herbert	98	↑2	44
40	Jessie	98	↓5	>100
41	Howard	97	↑2	27
42	Calvin	94	↓20	65
43	Vernon	90	new	66
44	Herman	88	↓8	69
45	Louis	86	↑5	30
46	Charlie	84	new	81
47	Leon	84	↓7	73
48	Ernest	82	↑1	37
49	Lee	81	↓4	85
50	Eddie	79	new	>100

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