Popular baby names in Florida, 1926

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,068 babies) and James for boys (1,080). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 32,002 babies born in Florida in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1926

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, 11.4× the national rate
Elouise: 30 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Doretha: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Essie: 62 babies, 5× the national rate
Rosa: 120 babies, 4× the national rate
Allie: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Maude: 20 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Johnnie: 54 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Ola: 31 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Pearlie: 18 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Isiah: 15 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Nathaniel: 55 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Roosevelt: 32 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Alfonso: 18 babies, 4× the national rate
Cleveland: 18 babies, 4× the national rate
Amos: 24 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Willie: 347 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Wilson: 23 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Johnny: 60 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Jasper: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,068	–	1
2	Dorothy	612	–	2
3	Betty	495	–	3
4	Margaret	332	–	5
5	Helen	284	–	4
6	Doris	250	↑3	7
7	Mildred	246	↑3	9
8	Frances	242	↑6	10
9	Ruth	237	↓2	6
10	Annie	235	↓4	34
11	Elizabeth	230	↓3	11
12	Louise	213	–	27
13	Evelyn	210	↓2	13
14	Virginia	207	↑5	8
15	Alice	176	↑3	17
16	Barbara	170	↑10	16
17	Thelma	170	–	36
18	Martha	163	↓2	24
19	Edna	152	↓4	38
20	Willie	150	↑1	73
21	Gloria	149	↑3	20
22	Ruby	147	↓9	30
23	Juanita	139	↓3	52
24	Hazel	132	↑5	48
25	Lillian	130	↑11	28
26	Lois	130	↑1	19
27	Marjorie	130	↑1	22
28	Jean	123	↑19	12
29	Rosa	120	↓4	>100
30	Gladys	117	↓7	35
31	Catherine	116	↑4	31
32	Edith	113	↑2	42
33	Bernice	112	↓2	45
34	Ethel	105	↓1	41
35	Lillie	104	↓13	99
36	Marie	104	↓4	18
37	Sarah	100	↓7	63
38	Patricia	99	–	23
39	Pauline	93	↑11	39
40	Joyce	91	new	44
41	Ida	89	new	82
42	Katherine	88	new	72
43	Florence	87	new	26
44	Josephine	85	new	37
45	Bertha	81	–	76
46	Mattie	81	↑2	>100
47	Julia	79	↓7	75
48	Lucille	79	↓7	43
49	Marion	79	new	47
50	Anna	78	↓6	15

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	1,080	–	3
2	William	851	–	4
3	John	773	–	2
4	Robert	753	–	1
5	Charles	490	–	5
6	George	441	–	6
7	Willie	347	–	28
8	Thomas	254	–	11
9	Edward	247	↑3	10
10	Richard	242	–	7
11	Henry	234	–	19
12	Joseph	234	↓3	8
13	Jack	216	–	16
14	Frank	199	–	12
15	David	186	↑1	22
16	Walter	159	↓1	17
17	Harold	154	↑3	14
18	Donald	152	↑8	9
19	Ralph	133	↑8	24
20	Albert	132	↑2	21
21	Arthur	126	↓3	20
22	Raymond	125	↑7	15
23	Clarence	124	↓2	29
24	Harry	124	↓7	25
25	Joe	115	↑5	33
26	Earl	114	↑6	32
27	Paul	114	↓8	13
28	Ernest	113	↓4	37
29	Eugene	109	↓4	23
30	Leroy	106	↓7	51
31	Carl	101	↓3	26
32	Fred	100	↓1	31
33	Samuel	99	↑1	48
34	Louis	96	↑5	30
35	Roy	90	↑2	34
36	Herbert	88	↑4	44
37	Kenneth	85	↑6	18
38	Alfred	80	↑4	45
39	Charlie	80	↓6	81
40	Cecil	79	↓2	86
41	Johnnie	79	↓6	>100
42	Daniel	78	↑3	46
43	Howard	76	↓2	27
44	Andrew	69	new	59
45	Eddie	68	↓9	>100
46	Billy	66	new	40
47	Floyd	65	new	53
48	Lawrence	65	↓1	36
49	Marvin	62	new	50
50	Johnny	60	new	>100

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