Popular baby names in Florida, 1922

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1922 were Mary for girls (706 babies) and James for boys (731). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,075 babies born in Florida in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1922

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: 21 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Idella: 16 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Elouise: 16 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Gussie: 19 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Corine: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Essie: 56 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Flossie: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Pearlie: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Leila: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Maude: 24 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 61 babies, 8× the national rate
Alonzo: 17 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Aubrey: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Freddie: 25 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Johnnie: 67 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Eddie: 64 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Earnest: 42 babies, 4× the national rate
Willie: 260 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Amos: 20 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	706	–	1
2	Dorothy	346	–	2
3	Margaret	217	–	4
4	Ruth	207	↑3	5
5	Annie	200	–	30
6	Helen	189	↓2	3
7	Mildred	182	↓1	8
8	Elizabeth	174	–	9
9	Louise	174	–	22
10	Evelyn	158	↑3	13
11	Doris	148	–	11
12	Ruby	145	↑5	26
13	Frances	141	↓3	10
14	Virginia	139	↑1	7
15	Edna	136	↑1	29
16	Willie	130	↓4	70
17	Thelma	114	↓3	31
18	Ethel	110	↑6	32
19	Betty	107	↑16	6
20	Alice	106	↓1	15
21	Gladys	103	↓3	25
22	Martha	103	↑9	21
23	Edith	100	↑2	34
24	Lillie	98	↑2	85
25	Lillian	95	↓3	19
26	Juanita	94	↓3	57
27	Lois	93	–	35
28	Hazel	92	↓8	37
29	Bernice	91	↓8	41
30	Rosa	90	new	>100
31	Sarah	88	↑2	51
32	Marie	87	↓4	14
33	Marjorie	85	↓4	16
34	Ida	78	↑8	65
35	Inez	77	↑1	>100
36	Bertha	76	↑4	63
37	Irene	76	↓3	17
38	Clara	73	new	47
39	Lucille	72	↓7	33
40	Catherine	70	↓2	24
41	Bessie	69	↑5	81
42	Minnie	68	↓5	91
43	Josephine	67	↑6	27
44	Pauline	67	new	36
45	Anna	66	new	12
46	Florence	66	↓16	18
47	Grace	66	↓8	38
48	Myrtle	63	↓5	75
49	Laura	62	new	68
50	Julia	59	new	60

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	731	–	4
2	William	556	↑1	3
3	John	517	↓1	1
4	Robert	426	–	2
5	Charles	314	–	5
6	George	306	↑1	6
7	Willie	260	↓1	28
8	Henry	209	–	17
9	Thomas	189	↑1	11
10	Joseph	180	↓1	7
11	Edward	169	↑1	8
12	Frank	165	↓1	10
13	Walter	136	↑2	15
14	Albert	120	↑6	20
15	David	120	↑9	24
16	Richard	117	↓3	9
17	Joe	113	↓1	35
18	Jack	104	↓4	18
19	Harold	98	↓2	13
20	Arthur	96	↓1	19
21	Clarence	93	–	29
22	Fred	90	↑1	33
23	Leroy	90	↑6	55
24	Samuel	86	↑1	43
25	Ralph	85	↑8	23
26	Paul	83	↑9	14
27	Earl	77	↑4	31
28	Ernest	75	↓6	37
29	Eugene	72	↓1	25
30	Charlie	70	–	72
31	Louis	70	↓4	27
32	Harry	67	↓14	22
33	Herbert	67	↑3	40
34	Johnnie	67	↑3	>100
35	Cecil	64	↑9	85
36	Eddie	64	↓2	>100
37	Carl	62	↓5	30
38	Nathaniel	61	new	>100
39	Howard	60	–	26
40	Lawrence	60	–	36
41	Donald	58	↑6	12
42	Raymond	58	↓16	16
43	Kenneth	55	new	21
44	Alfred	53	↑2	42
45	Daniel	53	↓7	47
46	Clyde	52	↑4	67
47	Roy	51	↓5	32
48	Leon	46	↓5	77
49	Warren	44	↓8	45
50	Lewis	43	new	75

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