Popular baby names in Florida, 1915

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1915 were Mary for girls (482 babies) and James for boys (579). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 15,869 babies born in Florida in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1915

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

Girls

Ernestine: 25 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Essie: 37 babies, 5× the national rate
Leola: 28 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carmen: 20 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rosa: 74 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Leila: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Willie: 123 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Janie: 19 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Addie: 26 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Annie: 180 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Freddie: 20 babies, 8× the national rate
Barney: 18 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Booker: 16 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Nathaniel: 28 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lonnie: 27 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Mario: 17 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Eddie: 50 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Rufus: 26 babies, 5× the national rate
Julian: 24 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Willie: 220 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	482	–	1
2	Annie	180	–	36
3	Dorothy	176	–	3
4	Margaret	172	↑1	4
5	Ruth	144	↑3	5
6	Elizabeth	141	↑5	8
7	Helen	141	↓1	2
8	Edna	135	↑4	20
9	Willie	123	↑5	72
10	Mildred	116	–	6
11	Frances	115	↑7	9
12	Ruby	114	↓8	24
13	Evelyn	112	–	10
14	Louise	109	↓5	18
15	Thelma	103	↓8	30
16	Gladys	99	–	21
17	Alice	97	↑7	13
18	Hazel	85	↑16	26
19	Marie	85	↑1	11
20	Ethel	82	↓5	23
21	Josephine	79	↑6	22
22	Lillian	77	–	15
23	Bessie	74	↑26	57
24	Rosa	74	↓3	>100
25	Lillie	73	↓8	84
26	Edith	71	↑20	31
27	Martha	68	↑1	25
28	Sarah	67	↑4	51
29	Virginia	67	new	12
30	Doris	66	↑15	34
31	Clara	63	new	38
32	Julia	61	new	44
33	Lois	61	↓4	47
34	Minnie	61	↑13	68
35	Myrtle	61	↑6	58
36	Lucille	59	↓13	29
37	Beatrice	58	↓18	37
38	Eva	58	↓5	55
39	Bernice	57	↓8	42
40	Ida	57	↓2	54
41	Alma	56	↓11	70
42	Florence	56	↓5	14
43	Anna	53	↑5	7
44	Emma	53	↓2	40
45	Ella	50	new	75
46	Grace	50	new	27
47	Irene	47	↓22	17
48	Vera	47	new	65
49	Inez	46	↓9	>100
50	Pauline	46	new	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	James	579	–	3
2	William	425	–	2
3	John	407	–	1
4	Robert	288	↑1	4
5	Willie	220	↓1	30
6	George	208	–	6
7	Charles	185	–	7
8	Joseph	140	–	5
9	Henry	131	–	14
10	Thomas	126	–	10
11	Frank	113	–	9
12	Walter	93	↑11	11
13	Richard	87	↑6	15
14	Edward	83	↑2	8
15	David	81	↓2	31
16	Harry	74	↑12	19
17	Leroy	73	↑5	66
18	Joe	72	–	38
19	Albert	71	↓7	17
20	Clarence	67	↑4	24
21	Ernest	66	↑4	35
22	Fred	66	↓5	26
23	Samuel	66	↓2	39
24	Arthur	61	↓10	18
25	Jack	59	↑1	27
26	Ralph	58	↑9	21
27	Harold	53	↑14	12
28	Herbert	52	↑17	40
29	Louis	52	↓9	23
30	Roy	52	↑8	32
31	Carl	51	↑8	22
32	Raymond	51	↓5	16
33	Eddie	50	↑4	>100
34	Charlie	49	↓19	75
35	Earl	49	↓5	33
36	Paul	47	↓7	13
37	Alfred	44	new	42
38	Sam	44	↑9	68
39	Cecil	43	↓7	76
40	Johnnie	42	↓9	>100
41	Willard	42	new	58
42	Daniel	40	↓6	55
43	Donald	40	new	20
44	Eugene	40	↓11	41
45	Benjamin	38	new	71
46	Howard	38	↑2	25
47	Theodore	37	new	64
48	Clifford	36	new	61
49	Oscar	34	new	88
50	Herman	33	↓8	56

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