Popular baby names in Arkansas, 1929

The most popular baby names in Arkansas in 1929 were Mary for girls (1,239 babies) and James for boys (1,296). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 34,903 babies born in Arkansas in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arkansas in 1929

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

Girls

Earnestine: 53 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Willene: 15 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Ruthie: 55 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Dortha: 27 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Pearline: 19 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Vada: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Dorotha: 15 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Freddie: 25 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Bobby: 22 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Ima: 21 babies, 6.4× the national rate

Boys

Coy: 22 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Jeff: 19 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Houston: 15 babies, 7× the national rate
Odell: 27 babies, 6× the national rate
Claud: 18 babies, 6× the national rate
Garland: 35 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Troy: 45 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Wilburn: 19 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Johnie: 38 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Travis: 21 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arkansas, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	1,239	–	1
2	Betty	779	–	2
3	Dorothy	505	–	3
4	Helen	343	–	4
5	Ruby	304	–	36
6	Wanda	251	↑3	61
7	Mildred	239	↓1	18
8	Virginia	239	↓1	11
9	Martha	223	↓1	27
10	Doris	209	↑5	6
11	Margaret	205	↑3	5
12	Ruth	205	↓2	8
13	Billie	188	↓2	79
14	Frances	184	↑3	16
15	Willie	184	↓2	76
16	Wilma	174	↑5	66
17	Juanita	169	↓5	60
18	Louise	161	↑7	31
19	Evelyn	150	↑9	19
20	Anna	146	↓2	20
21	Annie	140	↑2	37
22	Emma	138	↑2	69
23	Norma	138	↑3	25
24	Thelma	134	↓8	41
25	Lois	130	↓6	17
26	Bonnie	128	↑5	86
27	Elizabeth	126	↑14	15
28	Hazel	125	↓8	64
29	Barbara	122	↑9	7
30	Pauline	120	↑10	50
31	Bobbie	119	↓1	>100
32	Ethel	108	↑7	56
33	Geneva	107	↑1	>100
34	Alice	106	↓12	21
35	Lucille	106	↑9	57
36	Patsy	105	new	>100
37	Lillie	103	↓5	>100
38	Maxine	103	↓3	85
39	Rosie	103	new	>100
40	Gladys	101	↓4	44
41	Clara	98	↓8	65
42	Marie	98	↓15	22
43	Bernice	96	↓6	55
44	Margie	96	new	>100
45	Edna	94	↓16	51
46	Jessie	91	↓4	>100
47	Geraldine	88	new	43
48	Mae	88	new	>100
49	Joyce	87	↑1	23
50	Mattie	87	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	James	1,296	–	2
2	William	729	–	4
3	John	699	–	3
4	Robert	625	–	1
5	Charles	586	–	5
6	Billy	553	–	23
7	George	291	–	8
8	Willie	283	–	29
9	Joe	263	↑1	30
10	Bobby	260	↑5	50
11	Thomas	243	↓2	11
12	Harold	205	–	16
13	Edward	191	↑1	10
14	Henry	186	↑2	21
15	Kenneth	181	↑10	18
16	Jack	178	↓5	14
17	Roy	159	↓4	35
18	Donald	157	↑6	7
19	Paul	153	↓2	13
20	Herbert	147	↑2	25
21	Richard	145	↓1	6
22	David	139	↑6	17
23	Joseph	128	↑12	9
24	Eugene	124	↓6	20
25	Walter	124	↓4	19
26	Raymond	122	↓7	15
27	Carl	118	↓1	28
28	Clarence	113	↑3	37
29	Albert	110	↑3	24
30	Earl	107	↓7	36
31	Billie	106	↑3	>100
32	Frank	104	↓5	12
33	Fred	101	↓4	34
34	Lee	94	↑9	85
35	Arthur	93	↑4	22
36	Floyd	93	↑1	58
37	Jimmie	91	↑4	98
38	Jessie	88	↑2	>100
39	Howard	87	↓1	31
40	Leroy	85	new	51
41	Ralph	84	↓11	26
42	Herman	82	↑5	75
43	Samuel	82	↓7	53
44	Bill	81	↑5	63
45	Louis	81	new	32
46	Marvin	81	new	46
47	Ernest	80	new	43
48	Leon	79	new	81
49	Junior	77	↓7	>100
50	Vernon	77	↓2	71

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