Popular baby names in Florida, 1912

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1912 were Mary for girls (290 babies) and James for boys (319). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,688 babies born in Florida in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1912

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: 32 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Ola: 21 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Johnnie: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Leola: 21 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Willie: 88 babies, 4× the national rate
Rosa: 51 babies, 4× the national rate
Janie: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Annie: 134 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Maggie: 33 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Lillie: 64 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Roosevelt: 20 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Nathaniel: 21 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Leroy: 75 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rufus: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Johnnie: 32 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Willie: 153 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Sylvester: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jerry: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Eddie: 27 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Manuel: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	290	–	1
2	Annie	134	–	27
3	Ruby	100	↑3	23
4	Dorothy	91	↑9	3
5	Ruth	88	↑2	5
6	Willie	88	↓3	61
7	Margaret	86	↑3	4
8	Elizabeth	83	↓4	8
9	Louise	83	↓4	17
10	Thelma	83	↑2	26
11	Helen	76	↑6	2
12	Mildred	72	↑8	6
13	Gladys	71	↑12	19
14	Marie	69	↑4	10
15	Ethel	68	↓4	18
16	Lillie	64	↓8	67
17	Edna	63	↓3	16
18	Frances	62	↓9	9
19	Eva	56	↑25	49
20	Florence	55	↑1	12
21	Alice	54	↓5	11
22	Lillian	53	–	14
23	Minnie	53	–	60
24	Beatrice	52	↑8	37
25	Rosa	51	↓6	94
26	Myrtle	50	new	50
27	Alma	47	↑22	62
28	Gertrude	47	new	30
29	Emma	46	↓2	35
30	Mattie	45	↑8	70
31	Evelyn	42	↑4	13
32	Hazel	42	↑16	25
33	Pearl	41	↑13	54
34	Bessie	40	↓10	43
35	Martha	39	↓2	29
36	Sarah	39	↑6	41
37	Clara	38	↓11	34
38	Lucille	38	↓23	32
39	Rose	38	new	15
40	Ida	37	↓12	45
41	Carrie	36	↓7	82
42	Edith	35	new	31
43	Grace	35	↓7	24
44	Alberta	34	↓5	>100
45	Catherine	34	new	21
46	Josephine	34	↓6	28
47	Anna	33	new	7
48	Bertha	33	↓17	36
49	Daisy	33	new	>100
50	Ella	33	↓7	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	319	–	3
2	John	252	–	1
3	William	241	–	2
4	Robert	155	↑2	4
5	Willie	153	↓1	22
6	George	125	↓1	6
7	Henry	123	↑2	12
8	Charles	114	↓1	7
9	Joseph	89	↑1	5
10	Thomas	81	↑3	10
11	Leroy	75	↑10	66
12	Walter	71	↓1	11
13	Edward	69	↑2	8
14	Frank	64	↓6	9
15	Joe	63	↑2	36
16	Arthur	55	↓2	15
17	Albert	52	↓5	17
18	Clarence	51	↑10	21
19	David	50	↓3	29
20	Richard	47	↑3	19
21	Charlie	46	↓3	57
22	Ernest	44	↑3	32
23	Jack	43	↓4	28
24	Roy	39	↑8	31
25	Samuel	38	↑8	30
26	Fred	35	↓6	26
27	Woodrow	34	new	46
28	Johnnie	32	↑15	>100
29	Harry	31	↓7	16
30	Lewis	31	↑1	68
31	Paul	31	↓4	14
32	Eugene	29	↑3	41
33	Sam	29	↓9	63
34	Andrew	27	new	44
35	Eddie	27	↓9	>100
36	Raymond	27	new	18
37	Carl	26	new	24
38	Louis	26	↑4	20
39	Cecil	25	↓2	76
40	Ralph	24	new	23
41	Earl	23	↓11	34
42	Herman	23	new	50
43	Jessie	23	↓2	>100
44	Clyde	22	↓6	65
45	Lee	22	new	78
46	Lawrence	21	↓2	38
47	Nathaniel	21	↓18	>100
48	Ben	20	new	>100
49	Benjamin	20	↓4	67
50	Oscar	20	↓16	73

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