Popular baby names in Florida, 1910

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1910 were Mary for girls (239 babies) and James for boys (204). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,614 babies born in Florida in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1910

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

Girls

Essie: 39 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Gussie: 15 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Rosa: 53 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Willie: 71 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Maggie: 36 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lillie: 69 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Carrie: 49 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Lula: 30 babies, 3× the national rate
Daisy: 27 babies, 3× the national rate
Annie: 101 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Lonnie: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Eddie: 36 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Leroy: 38 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Willie: 140 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Charlie: 40 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Clyde: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Johnnie: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Oscar: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jessie: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Sam: 25 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	239	1
2	Annie	101	19
3	Ethel	82	13
4	Willie	71	56
5	Louise	70	20
6	Lillie	69	54
7	Ruby	65	27
8	Thelma	65	25
9	Gladys	58	15
10	Ruth	56	5
11	Bessie	54	37
12	Marie	54	9
13	Alice	53	10
14	Margaret	53	3
15	Rosa	53	83
16	Edna	50	18
17	Beatrice	49	36
18	Carrie	49	70
19	Elizabeth	47	7
20	Dorothy	45	4
21	Ida	42	47
22	Alma	39	61
23	Essie	39	>100
24	Mildred	39	8
25	Myrtle	39	43
26	Minnie	38	50
27	Maggie	36	95
28	Mattie	36	60
29	Helen	35	2
30	Martha	35	28
31	Sarah	34	40
32	Mae	33	65
33	Lucille	31	31
34	Cora	30	85
35	Emma	30	34
36	Eva	30	45
37	Evelyn	30	17
38	Lillian	30	14
39	Lula	30	93
40	Mabel	30	46
41	Mamie	30	86
42	Irene	29	21
43	Josephine	29	30
44	Pearl	29	39
45	Viola	29	48
46	Bertha	28	33
47	Ella	28	62
48	Daisy	27	>100
49	Anna	26	6
50	Florence	26	12

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	James	204	2
2	John	184	1
3	Willie	140	11
4	William	118	3
5	Robert	100	4
6	George	98	5
7	Charles	67	7
8	Frank	62	8
9	Henry	49	10
10	Joseph	44	6
11	Joe	42	25
12	Charlie	40	34
13	Thomas	39	12
14	Leroy	38	50
15	Walter	37	13
16	Albert	36	14
17	Eddie	36	59
18	Fred	33	22
19	Arthur	31	17
20	Edward	28	9
21	Harry	28	16
22	Richard	27	21
23	Samuel	27	32
24	Sam	25	40
25	Clarence	23	20
26	Jack	23	23
27	Clyde	22	57
28	David	22	30
29	Alfred	20	38
30	Lee	20	49
31	Louis	20	24
32	Ernest	18	31
33	Lonnie	18	>100
34	Andrew	17	42
35	Earl	17	33
36	Johnnie	17	74
37	Paul	17	15
38	Oscar	16	73
39	Eugene	15	39
40	Jessie	15	72
41	Ralph	15	28
42	Benjamin	14	70
43	Herbert	14	41
44	Raymond	14	19
45	Cecil	13	77
46	Francis	13	36
47	Horace	13	>100
48	Jimmie	13	>100
49	Tom	13	82
50	Harold	12	18

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