Popular baby names in Florida, 1918

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1918 were Mary for girls (585 babies) and James for boys (641). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,564 babies born in Florida in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1918

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

Girls

Myrtice: 15 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Essie: 55 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Eddie: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Lessie: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Gussie: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rosa: 93 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Willie: 152 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Leola: 29 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Estella: 22 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Lucile: 53 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 41 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Moses: 20 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Emanuel: 20 babies, 6× the national rate
Freddie: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Johnnie: 65 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Amos: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Horace: 45 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Willie: 241 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rufus: 25 babies, 4× the national rate
Lonnie: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	585	–	1
2	Dorothy	218	↑2	3
3	Annie	180	–	36
4	Margaret	180	↓2	4
5	Ruth	180	↑1	5
6	Elizabeth	152	↑3	9
7	Willie	152	↑6	70
8	Louise	150	↑3	18
9	Mildred	138	↓1	6
10	Helen	136	↓5	2
11	Thelma	132	↓4	32
12	Ruby	128	↑3	27
13	Frances	126	↑1	8
14	Edna	124	↓4	23
15	Evelyn	118	↑5	11
16	Marie	105	↑2	12
17	Doris	104	↑8	19
18	Lillie	102	↑5	89
19	Alice	101	↓7	13
20	Ethel	97	↑4	28
21	Gladys	97	↓2	22
22	Rosa	93	–	>100
23	Hazel	86	↓7	33
24	Edith	82	↑2	30
25	Emma	81	↑21	46
26	Virginia	80	↓5	7
27	Josephine	79	↑10	24
28	Lucille	77	↓1	29
29	Myrtle	75	–	62
30	Alma	74	↑10	73
31	Bessie	74	↑10	61
32	Catherine	73	new	20
33	Beatrice	72	↓5	40
34	Lillian	72	↓3	15
35	Martha	72	↓18	25
36	Sarah	70	↓6	52
37	Eva	69	↑11	55
38	Lois	69	↓6	42
39	Florence	66	↓1	14
40	Ida	66	↑9	57
41	Minnie	66	↓8	88
42	Grace	64	new	31
43	Jessie	61	↑4	75
44	Bertha	60	new	51
45	Irene	60	↓2	16
46	Juanita	60	↓2	85
47	Anna	59	new	10
48	Nellie	58	new	65
49	Laura	56	new	64
50	Clara	55	↓8	43

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	641	–	3
2	William	456	–	2
3	John	437	–	1
4	Robert	325	–	4
5	George	263	↑2	6
6	Charles	246	↓1	5
7	Willie	241	↓1	29
8	Henry	173	↑1	16
9	Thomas	153	↑1	10
10	Joseph	141	↓2	7
11	Frank	139	–	9
12	Edward	122	↑1	8
13	Joe	108	↑3	34
14	Walter	104	↓2	11
15	Albert	100	–	19
16	Arthur	97	↑1	17
17	Jack	95	↑6	21
18	David	84	↓4	28
19	Clarence	82	↓1	23
20	Leroy	82	–	57
21	Samuel	80	–	43
22	Ernest	79	↑4	37
23	Richard	79	↓4	12
24	Charlie	70	↑4	70
25	Woodrow	67	↑14	58
26	Harold	66	↓4	13
27	Johnnie	65	↑2	>100
28	Fred	64	↓3	33
29	Earl	62	↓2	31
30	Cecil	61	↑17	82
31	Harry	61	↑2	20
32	Ralph	61	↓8	22
33	Raymond	59	↓1	15
34	Paul	58	↓4	14
35	Carl	52	↓4	25
36	Eugene	48	↑4	35
37	Jesse	48	↑6	78
38	Alfred	47	↓1	42
39	Andrew	47	new	46
40	Eddie	47	↓4	>100
41	Howard	46	↑4	26
42	Roy	46	↓7	32
43	Herbert	45	↓9	40
44	Horace	45	new	>100
45	Louis	45	↓7	24
46	Daniel	44	↑4	52
47	Oscar	44	new	87
48	Lawrence	43	new	38
49	Lewis	43	↓7	74
50	Sam	42	↓4	75

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