Popular baby names in Florida, 1919

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1919 were Mary for girls (620 babies) and James for boys (656). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,092 babies born in Florida in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1919

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

Girls

Corine: 24 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Essie: 47 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Gussie: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Leila: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Jimmie: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Allie: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Ernestine: 29 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Rosa: 85 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Willie: 138 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 28 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 49 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Freddie: 20 babies, 5× the national rate
Moses: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Mario: 15 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Johnny: 27 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Isaac: 30 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Amos: 21 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Willie: 270 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Lonnie: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 62 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	620	–	1
2	Dorothy	236	–	3
3	Annie	207	–	35
4	Ruth	200	↑1	5
5	Margaret	193	↓1	4
6	Mildred	181	↑3	6
7	Helen	166	↑3	2
8	Ruby	154	↑4	24
9	Elizabeth	148	↓3	8
10	Willie	138	↓3	61
11	Louise	125	↓3	20
12	Evelyn	114	↑3	11
13	Gladys	113	↑8	21
14	Thelma	111	↓3	31
15	Edna	108	↓1	22
16	Frances	105	↓3	9
17	Marie	105	↓1	12
18	Hazel	104	↑5	32
19	Doris	103	↓2	18
20	Lillie	100	↓2	81
21	Ethel	99	↓1	28
22	Alice	96	↓3	13
23	Edith	92	↑1	29
24	Bessie	90	↑7	59
25	Virginia	88	↑1	7
26	Martha	85	↑9	25
27	Rosa	85	↓5	>100
28	Lillian	77	↑6	17
29	Juanita	75	↑17	73
30	Bernice	70	new	42
31	Grace	70	↑11	34
32	Lucille	69	↓4	27
33	Emma	67	↓8	45
34	Clara	66	↑16	43
35	Lois	66	↑3	40
36	Catherine	65	↓4	23
37	Eunice	65	new	>100
38	Jessie	65	↑5	75
39	Mattie	65	new	95
40	Betty	61	new	15
41	Irene	61	↑4	16
42	Florence	60	↓3	14
43	Ella	59	new	87
44	Myrtle	59	↓15	67
45	Nellie	59	↑3	69
46	Eva	58	↓9	55
47	Josephine	58	↓20	26
48	Sarah	58	↓12	46
49	Beatrice	56	↓16	41
50	Minnie	56	↓9	80

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	James	656	–	3
2	John	469	↑1	1
3	William	437	↓1	2
4	Robert	319	–	4
5	Willie	270	↑2	23
6	George	242	↓1	6
7	Charles	230	↓1	5
8	Joseph	171	↑2	7
9	Henry	163	↓1	16
10	Thomas	150	↓1	10
11	Frank	129	–	9
12	Edward	126	–	8
13	Walter	116	↑1	11
14	Arthur	100	↑2	19
15	Richard	99	↑8	12
16	Joe	95	↓3	35
17	David	93	↑1	27
18	Ernest	89	↑4	36
19	Albert	88	↓4	18
20	Leroy	84	–	55
21	Paul	78	↑13	15
22	Clarence	77	↓3	25
23	Fred	77	↑5	30
24	Jack	74	↓7	21
25	Harold	72	↑1	13
26	Samuel	69	↓5	43
27	Charlie	67	↓3	66
28	Ralph	67	↑4	22
29	Eugene	65	↑7	33
30	Herbert	65	↑13	40
31	Harry	63	–	20
32	Earl	62	↓3	31
33	Johnnie	62	↓6	95
34	Louis	59	↑11	28
35	Carl	58	–	29
36	Raymond	58	↓3	14
37	Eddie	54	↑3	99
38	Lawrence	51	↑10	38
39	Alfred	49	↓1	42
40	Nathaniel	49	new	>100
41	Oscar	48	↑6	88
42	Clyde	47	new	67
43	Roy	46	↓1	32
44	Andrew	43	↓5	47
45	Daniel	42	↑1	51
46	Theodore	42	new	54
47	Howard	41	↓6	24
48	Leon	41	new	80
49	Leonard	41	new	39
50	Sam	40	–	75

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