Popular baby names in Florida, 1913

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1913 were Mary for girls (327 babies) and James for boys (355). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,297 babies born in Florida in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1913

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

Girls

Rosa: 63 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Leola: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Janie: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Willie: 77 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Essie: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Annie: 137 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Susie: 31 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Estella: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Katie: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Eloise: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 27 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Leroy: 76 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 32 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Willie: 152 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Tom: 22 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Charlie: 52 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Luther: 24 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Horace: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Jessie: 20 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	327	–	1
2	Annie	137	–	30
3	Ruth	95	↑2	5
4	Elizabeth	94	↑4	8
5	Louise	94	↑4	17
6	Thelma	92	↑4	26
7	Margaret	87	–	4
8	Mildred	85	↑4	6
9	Marie	81	↑5	10
10	Ruby	78	↓7	23
11	Dorothy	77	↓7	3
12	Willie	77	↓6	65
13	Helen	76	↓2	2
14	Edna	73	↑3	18
15	Alice	68	↑6	11
16	Evelyn	65	↑15	12
17	Frances	65	↑1	9
18	Gladys	64	↓5	19
19	Ethel	63	↓4	20
20	Rosa	63	↑5	>100
21	Lillie	60	↓5	71
22	Edith	58	↑20	29
23	Virginia	58	new	15
24	Mattie	55	↑6	75
25	Lillian	53	↓3	16
26	Eva	48	↓7	50
27	Julia	48	new	42
28	Josephine	47	↑18	24
29	Martha	47	↑6	28
30	Myrtle	45	↓4	53
31	Lucille	44	↑7	31
32	Beatrice	42	↓8	37
33	Bessie	42	↑1	47
34	Grace	42	↑9	25
35	Hazel	42	↓3	27
36	Anna	40	↑11	7
37	Florence	40	↓17	13
38	Inez	40	new	98
39	Minnie	40	↓16	63
40	Ida	39	–	49
41	Alma	38	↓14	64
42	Emma	38	↓13	38
43	Jessie	38	new	61
44	Viola	38	new	52
45	Doris	36	new	44
46	Irene	36	new	21
47	Vera	36	new	68
48	Carrie	35	↓7	90
49	Gertrude	35	↓21	33
50	Hattie	35	new	96

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	James	355	–	3
2	John	271	–	1
3	William	250	–	2
4	Robert	168	–	4
5	Willie	152	–	24
6	George	141	–	6
7	Charles	117	↑1	7
8	Joseph	111	↑1	5
9	Henry	110	↓2	12
10	Frank	101	↑4	9
11	Leroy	76	–	63
12	Thomas	70	↓2	10
13	Walter	66	↓1	11
14	Richard	62	↑6	19
15	Arthur	61	↑1	17
16	Clarence	60	↑2	21
17	Edward	60	↓4	8
18	Charlie	52	↑3	62
19	Joe	52	↓4	37
20	Harry	48	↑9	15
21	Ernest	47	↑1	34
22	Fred	46	↑4	27
23	Albert	43	↓6	16
24	Woodrow	43	↑3	44
25	Samuel	42	–	36
26	Louis	41	↑12	20
27	Raymond	41	↑9	18
28	Carl	39	↑9	23
29	David	38	↓10	29
30	Harold	38	new	13
31	Jack	35	↓8	28
32	Paul	35	↓1	14
33	Ralph	34	↑7	22
34	Johnnie	32	↓6	>100
35	Alfred	30	new	42
36	Roy	30	↓12	32
37	Earl	28	↑4	31
38	Herman	28	↑4	53
39	Lee	27	↑6	78
40	Nathaniel	27	↑7	>100
41	Cecil	26	↓2	74
42	Eugene	26	↓10	43
43	Benjamin	25	↑6	70
44	Daniel	25	new	54
45	Herbert	25	new	39
46	Jesse	25	new	79
47	Sam	25	↓14	65
48	Lewis	24	↓18	72
49	Luther	24	new	>100
50	Oscar	24	–	76

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