Popular baby names in Florida, 1920

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1920 were Mary for girls (626 babies) and James for boys (745). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 20,197 babies born in Florida in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1920

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: 16 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Doretha: 16 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Elouise: 16 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Essie: 53 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Gussie: 17 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Claudia: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Maggie: 53 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Willie: 151 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Iris: 25 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Leila: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 58 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Moses: 21 babies, 6× the national rate
Lonnie: 39 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Carlton: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Willie: 263 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 61 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Perry: 19 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Aubrey: 17 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Amos: 17 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Horace: 40 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	626	–	1
2	Dorothy	299	–	2
3	Margaret	230	↑2	4
4	Annie	207	↓1	35
5	Helen	207	↑2	3
6	Ruth	187	↓2	5
7	Mildred	163	↓1	6
8	Elizabeth	161	↑1	8
9	Frances	156	↑7	9
10	Willie	151	–	74
11	Doris	134	↑8	14
12	Evelyn	123	–	12
13	Louise	122	↓2	19
14	Alice	120	↑8	15
15	Thelma	120	↓1	31
16	Lillian	116	↑12	18
17	Edna	111	↓2	27
18	Ruby	104	↓10	26
19	Marie	103	↓2	13
20	Virginia	100	↑5	7
21	Gladys	94	↓8	22
22	Hazel	91	↓4	34
23	Edith	85	–	32
24	Sarah	85	↑24	50
25	Lillie	84	↓5	90
26	Rosa	84	↑1	>100
27	Ethel	82	↓6	30
28	Bernice	81	↑2	40
29	Lucille	81	↑3	29
30	Martha	81	↓4	23
31	Betty	75	↑9	11
32	Juanita	75	↓3	61
33	Lois	74	↑2	38
34	Bessie	72	↓10	71
35	Florence	72	↑7	16
36	Bertha	70	new	57
37	Mattie	70	↑2	96
38	Nellie	69	↑7	76
39	Clara	68	↓5	44
40	Marjorie	68	new	24
41	Beatrice	65	↑8	41
42	Inez	64	new	>100
43	Minnie	64	↑7	87
44	Ella	62	↓1	88
45	Josephine	62	↑2	28
46	Emma	59	↓13	46
47	Catherine	58	↓11	21
48	Ida	58	new	66
49	Myrtle	58	↓5	68
50	Eunice	57	↓13	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	James	745	–	4
2	John	570	–	1
3	William	497	–	2
4	Robert	371	–	3
5	George	271	↑1	6
6	Willie	263	↓1	29
7	Charles	252	–	5
8	Henry	187	↑1	17
9	Joseph	186	↓1	7
10	Edward	163	↑2	8
11	Thomas	159	↓1	11
12	Frank	156	↓1	9
13	Richard	113	↑2	10
14	Joe	111	↑2	35
15	Arthur	107	↓1	18
16	Walter	107	↓3	13
17	Albert	105	↑2	19
18	David	103	↓1	25
19	Jack	94	↑5	20
20	Samuel	86	↑6	44
21	Louis	85	↑13	28
22	Harold	82	↑3	12
23	Paul	82	↓2	14
24	Ernest	80	↓6	37
25	Clarence	79	↓3	26
26	Leroy	79	↓6	56
27	Earl	77	↑5	31
28	Harry	77	↑3	21
29	Fred	76	↓6	33
30	Ralph	76	↓2	22
31	Carl	75	↑4	27
32	Charlie	71	↓5	70
33	Raymond	64	↑3	15
34	Johnnie	61	↓1	99
35	Nathaniel	58	↑5	>100
36	Howard	56	↑11	24
37	Cecil	51	new	77
38	Herbert	51	↓8	41
39	Andrew	49	↑5	49
40	Roy	49	↑3	32
41	Lawrence	48	↓3	36
42	Alfred	47	↓3	42
43	Herman	47	new	66
44	Donald	45	new	16
45	Eugene	45	↓16	30
46	Clyde	42	↓4	68
47	Daniel	42	↓2	52
48	Jesse	42	new	79
49	Leon	42	↓1	75
50	Horace	40	new	>100

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