Popular baby names in Florida, 1923

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1923 were Mary for girls (793 babies) and James for boys (773). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,049 babies born in Florida in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1923

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: 22 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Elouise: 20 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Queen: 15 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Flossie: 24 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Rosa: 87 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Essie: 36 babies, 4× the national rate
Willie: 153 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rosetta: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 34 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Daisy: 51 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 42 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 25 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Freddie: 31 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Cleveland: 16 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Rufus: 31 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Lonnie: 27 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Willie: 260 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 63 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Tommy: 18 babies, 4× the national rate
Aubrey: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	793	–	1
2	Dorothy	373	–	2
3	Margaret	238	–	4
4	Helen	199	↑2	3
5	Mildred	196	↑2	8
6	Annie	194	↓1	34
7	Ruth	192	↓3	6
8	Elizabeth	177	–	9
9	Doris	161	↑2	11
10	Louise	161	↓1	22
11	Betty	153	↑8	5
12	Willie	153	↑4	67
13	Ruby	150	↓1	25
14	Evelyn	141	↓4	12
15	Thelma	139	↑2	31
16	Alice	133	↑4	15
17	Frances	132	↓4	10
18	Martha	130	↑4	21
19	Virginia	130	↓5	7
20	Lillian	120	↑5	20
21	Edna	118	↓6	32
22	Juanita	115	↑4	51
23	Edith	111	–	36
24	Gladys	110	↓3	29
25	Marie	103	↑7	14
26	Marjorie	97	↑7	16
27	Hazel	95	↑1	40
28	Ethel	87	↓10	38
29	Rosa	87	↑1	>100
30	Catherine	84	↑10	24
31	Bernice	82	↓2	43
32	Lois	82	↓5	27
33	Emma	77	new	53
34	Sarah	77	↓3	54
35	Lillie	76	↓11	91
36	Eva	74	new	66
37	Grace	74	↑10	39
38	Josephine	71	↑5	30
39	Julia	70	↑11	62
40	Clara	66	↓2	49
41	Florence	66	↑5	18
42	Ida	66	↓8	68
43	Alma	65	new	89
44	Beatrice	64	new	46
45	Jessie	62	new	94
46	Bertha	60	↓10	64
47	Myrtle	59	↑1	84
48	Inez	57	↓13	>100
49	Lucille	57	↓10	35
50	Nellie	57	new	88

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	James	773	–	4
2	William	543	–	3
3	John	499	–	1
4	Robert	452	–	2
5	George	293	↑1	6
6	Charles	279	↓1	5
7	Willie	260	–	30
8	Thomas	183	↑1	12
9	Joseph	182	↑1	7
10	Henry	160	↓2	18
11	Edward	150	–	8
12	Frank	146	–	11
13	Richard	145	↑3	9
14	Walter	124	↓1	16
15	Albert	119	↓1	20
16	Jack	117	↑2	17
17	Harold	111	↑2	13
18	Joe	111	↓1	35
19	Arthur	108	↑1	19
20	David	104	↓5	24
21	Fred	88	↑1	33
22	Ralph	88	↑3	23
23	Raymond	88	↑19	15
24	Samuel	88	–	45
25	Clarence	85	↓4	29
26	Carl	81	↑11	28
27	Leroy	79	↓4	55
28	Harry	75	↑4	22
29	Eugene	74	–	25
30	Ernest	73	↓2	38
31	Paul	73	↓5	14
32	Charlie	69	↓2	79
33	Roy	64	↑14	32
34	Donald	63	↑7	10
35	Earl	63	↓8	31
36	Johnnie	63	↓2	>100
37	Alfred	60	↑7	42
38	Louis	60	↓7	27
39	Herman	57	new	66
40	Eddie	53	↓4	>100
41	Herbert	53	↓8	40
42	Daniel	52	↑3	47
43	Howard	50	↓4	26
44	Kenneth	50	↓1	21
45	Leon	50	↑3	77
46	Cecil	49	↓11	87
47	Leonard	45	new	37
48	Theodore	43	new	62
49	Andrew	42	new	53
50	Clyde	42	↓4	68

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