Popular baby names in Florida, 1925

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1925 were Mary for girls (972 babies) and James for boys (980). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 28,133 babies born in Florida in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1925

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

Girls

Rutha: 17 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Myrtice: 19 babies, 11× the national rate
Vernell: 15 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Elouise: 20 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Queen: 17 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Lessie: 19 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Essie: 52 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Rosa: 117 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Corine: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Mercedes: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Ulysses: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Nathaniel: 57 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Emory: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Amos: 29 babies, 5× the national rate
Lonnie: 40 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Freddie: 33 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Rufus: 33 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Willie: 338 babies, 4× the national rate
Grady: 25 babies, 4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 21 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	972	–	1
2	Dorothy	506	–	2
3	Betty	364	↑1	3
4	Margaret	294	↓1	5
5	Helen	292	–	4
6	Annie	285	↑3	32
7	Ruth	260	–	6
8	Elizabeth	247	–	10
9	Doris	227	↑1	8
10	Mildred	207	↓4	9
11	Evelyn	188	↑3	12
12	Louise	188	–	27
13	Ruby	177	↑3	30
14	Frances	174	↓3	11
15	Edna	172	↑6	37
16	Martha	164	↑3	23
17	Thelma	159	↓2	35
18	Alice	148	↓1	15
19	Virginia	147	↓1	7
20	Juanita	137	↑2	49
21	Willie	137	↓8	68
22	Lillie	129	↑10	91
23	Gladys	128	↓3	33
24	Gloria	127	new	20
25	Rosa	117	↑9	>100
26	Barbara	110	↑23	22
27	Lois	110	–	18
28	Marjorie	106	↓3	21
29	Hazel	104	↓3	45
30	Sarah	104	↑1	58
31	Bernice	102	↓3	46
32	Marie	102	↓8	16
33	Ethel	99	↓3	43
34	Edith	97	↓5	42
35	Catherine	95	–	29
36	Lillian	95	↓13	25
37	Emma	94	new	57
38	Patricia	90	new	28
39	Clara	84	new	55
40	Julia	84	↑8	65
41	Lucille	84	↑3	41
42	Jessie	79	↑5	97
43	Minnie	78	↑3	>100
44	Anna	77	↑1	13
45	Bertha	75	↓8	74
46	Grace	75	new	44
47	Jean	75	↑3	14
48	Mattie	75	new	100
49	Vera	74	↓6	86
50	Pauline	70	new	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	James	980	–	4
2	William	714	–	3
3	John	669	–	2
4	Robert	561	–	1
5	Charles	405	–	5
6	George	373	↑1	6
7	Willie	338	↓1	27
8	Thomas	268	–	11
9	Joseph	246	–	7
10	Richard	223	↑3	8
11	Henry	215	–	18
12	Edward	214	↓2	9
13	Jack	177	↑1	17
14	Frank	173	↓2	12
15	Walter	152	↑2	16
16	David	137	–	22
17	Harry	128	↑7	23
18	Arthur	125	–	20
19	Paul	122	↑7	13
20	Harold	117	↑1	14
21	Clarence	114	↓1	30
22	Albert	113	↓7	21
23	Leroy	113	↑2	52
24	Ernest	110	↑4	37
25	Eugene	110	↑4	24
26	Donald	102	↑8	10
27	Ralph	99	↓5	25
28	Carl	97	↑11	28
29	Raymond	94	↑3	15
30	Joe	93	↓11	34
31	Fred	91	↓1	33
32	Earl	89	↓1	31
33	Charlie	85	↑5	78
34	Samuel	84	↓11	46
35	Johnnie	81	↑13	100
36	Eddie	76	↑4	>100
37	Roy	76	↓1	32
38	Cecil	75	↑6	87
39	Louis	73	↓12	29
40	Herbert	71	↓7	42
41	Howard	69	↓6	26
42	Alfred	67	↓5	43
43	Kenneth	64	↑2	19
44	Clifford	62	new	59
45	Daniel	62	new	44
46	Jimmie	59	new	>100
47	Lawrence	59	↓6	36
48	Herman	58	new	69
49	Nathaniel	57	new	>100
50	Jesse	53	new	85

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