Popular baby names in Florida, 1911

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1911 were Mary for girls (223 babies) and James for boys (228). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,169 babies born in Florida in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1911

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

Girls

Gussie: 17 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Willie: 71 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Leola: 15 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Rosa: 41 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Essie: 20 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Alberta: 29 babies, 4× the national rate
Lillie: 53 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Annie: 98 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Susie: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Mamie: 29 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 20 babies, 9× the national rate
Eddie: 24 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Willie: 107 babies, 4× the national rate
Leroy: 27 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Charlie: 31 babies, 3× the national rate
Sam: 26 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Lewis: 18 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Oscar: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Cecil: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
James: 228 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	223	–	1
2	Annie	98	–	24
3	Willie	71	↑1	61
4	Elizabeth	66	↑15	7
5	Louise	66	–	19
6	Ruby	66	↑1	22
7	Ruth	65	↑3	5
8	Lillie	53	↓2	60
9	Frances	52	new	10
10	Margaret	52	↑4	3
11	Ethel	51	↓8	15
12	Thelma	48	↓4	27
13	Dorothy	47	↑7	4
14	Edna	47	↑2	17
15	Lucille	47	↑18	32
16	Alice	45	↓3	11
17	Helen	43	↑12	2
18	Marie	42	↓6	9
19	Rosa	41	↓4	92
20	Mildred	39	↑4	8
21	Florence	38	↑29	12
22	Lillian	38	↑16	13
23	Minnie	37	↑3	52
24	Bessie	36	↓13	40
25	Gladys	36	↓16	18
26	Clara	34	new	33
27	Emma	34	↑8	35
28	Ida	34	↓7	45
29	Julia	33	new	44
30	Lois	33	new	68
31	Bertha	32	↑15	36
32	Beatrice	31	↓15	37
33	Martha	31	↓3	28
34	Carrie	30	↓16	78
35	Evelyn	30	↑2	16
36	Grace	30	new	23
37	Jessie	30	new	66
38	Mattie	30	↓10	65
39	Alberta	29	new	>100
40	Josephine	29	↑3	29
41	Mamie	29	–	89
42	Sarah	29	↓11	42
43	Ella	28	↑4	63
44	Eva	28	↓8	46
45	Nellie	28	new	54
46	Pearl	28	↓2	48
47	Viola	28	↓2	47
48	Hazel	27	new	25
49	Alma	25	↓27	62
50	Laura	25	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	228	–	3
2	John	173	–	1
3	William	145	↑1	2
4	Willie	107	↓1	14
5	George	76	↑1	4
6	Robert	71	↓1	5
7	Charles	60	–	7
8	Frank	56	–	8
9	Henry	55	–	11
10	Joseph	50	–	6
11	Walter	44	↑4	12
12	Albert	40	↑4	15
13	Thomas	39	–	10
14	Arthur	38	↑5	18
15	Edward	38	↑5	9
16	David	33	↑12	27
17	Joe	33	↓6	29
18	Charlie	31	↓6	45
19	Jack	30	↑7	25
20	Fred	27	↓2	22
21	Leroy	27	↓7	59
22	Harry	26	↓1	13
23	Richard	26	↓1	20
24	Sam	26	–	47
25	Ernest	25	↑7	32
26	Eddie	24	↓9	78
27	Paul	24	↑10	17
28	Clarence	21	↓3	23
29	Nathaniel	20	new	>100
30	Earl	19	↑5	34
31	Lewis	18	new	66
32	Roy	18	new	31
33	Samuel	18	↓10	30
34	Oscar	17	↑4	68
35	Eugene	16	↑4	43
36	Harold	16	↑14	16
37	Cecil	15	↑8	76
38	Clyde	15	↓11	61
39	Alfred	14	↓10	39
40	Herbert	14	↑3	41
41	Jessie	14	↓1	79
42	Louis	14	↓11	21
43	Johnnie	13	↓7	90
44	Lawrence	13	new	37
45	Benjamin	12	↓3	64
46	Chester	12	new	58
47	Daniel	12	new	53
48	Horace	12	↓1	>100
49	Howard	12	new	28
50	Jesse	12	new	72

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