Popular baby names in Florida, 1914

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1914 were Mary for girls (427 babies) and James for boys (456). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 13,663 babies born in Florida in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1914

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

Girls

Idella: 16 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Corine: 21 babies, 9× the national rate
Gussie: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Essie: 36 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmen: 18 babies, 5× the national rate
Flossie: 25 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rosa: 69 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Daisy: 52 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Maggie: 42 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Leola: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 31 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 16 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 45 babies, 5× the national rate
Lonnie: 22 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Willie: 206 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Eddie: 39 babies, 4× the national rate
Charlie: 70 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Rufus: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Jimmie: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Julian: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	427	–	1
2	Annie	154	–	33
3	Dorothy	149	↑8	3
4	Ruby	124	↑6	24
5	Margaret	114	↑2	4
6	Helen	112	↑7	2
7	Thelma	112	↓1	26
8	Ruth	108	↓5	5
9	Louise	107	↓4	17
10	Mildred	106	↓2	7
11	Elizabeth	103	↓7	8
12	Edna	94	↑2	19
13	Evelyn	87	↑3	11
14	Willie	87	↓2	66
15	Ethel	86	↑4	21
16	Gladys	85	↑2	20
17	Lillie	81	↑4	74
18	Frances	80	↓1	9
19	Beatrice	74	↑13	38
20	Marie	69	↓11	10
21	Rosa	69	↓1	>100
22	Lillian	66	↑3	16
23	Lucille	64	↑8	30
24	Alice	63	↓9	12
25	Irene	61	↑21	22
26	Nellie	59	new	61
27	Josephine	58	↑1	23
28	Martha	58	↑1	27
29	Lois	56	new	51
30	Alma	55	↑11	69
31	Bernice	55	new	43
32	Sarah	55	new	47
33	Eva	54	↓7	52
34	Hazel	54	↑1	29
35	Jessie	53	↑8	64
36	Daisy	52	new	>100
37	Florence	52	–	13
38	Ida	52	↑2	49
39	Mamie	52	new	>100
40	Inez	50	↓2	>100
41	Myrtle	50	↓11	60
42	Emma	49	–	39
43	Gertrude	49	↑6	32
44	Bertha	48	new	41
45	Doris	48	–	36
46	Edith	48	↓24	31
47	Minnie	48	↓8	67
48	Anna	47	↓12	6
49	Bessie	47	↓16	55
50	Catherine	47	new	18

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	James	456	–	3
2	William	368	↑1	2
3	John	359	↓1	1
4	Willie	206	↑1	25
5	Robert	205	↓1	4
6	George	190	–	6
7	Charles	154	–	7
8	Joseph	154	–	5
9	Henry	133	–	12
10	Thomas	109	↑2	11
11	Frank	108	↓1	9
12	Albert	81	↑11	15
13	David	80	↑16	29
14	Arthur	73	↑1	18
15	Charlie	70	↑3	65
16	Edward	70	↑1	8
17	Fred	68	↑5	28
18	Joe	66	↑1	34
19	Richard	65	↓5	17
20	Louis	64	↑6	20
21	Samuel	64	↑4	36
22	Leroy	62	↓11	60
23	Walter	61	↓10	10
24	Clarence	59	↓8	22
25	Ernest	59	↓4	38
26	Jack	53	↑5	27
27	Raymond	52	–	16
28	Harry	51	↓8	19
29	Paul	50	↑3	13
30	Earl	46	↑7	33
31	Johnnie	45	↑3	>100
32	Cecil	43	↑9	79
33	Eugene	42	↑9	43
34	Woodrow	42	↓10	71
35	Ralph	41	↓2	21
36	Daniel	39	↑8	55
37	Eddie	39	new	>100
38	Roy	39	↓2	32
39	Carl	38	↓11	24
40	Clyde	35	new	63
41	Harold	34	↓11	14
42	Herman	34	↓4	51
43	Nathaniel	31	↓3	>100
44	Andrew	30	new	44
45	Herbert	30	–	42
46	Jesse	30	–	82
47	Sam	30	–	67
48	Howard	29	new	26
49	Curtis	28	new	>100
50	Lawrence	28	new	35

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