Popular baby names in Florida, 1927

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1927 were Mary for girls (1,043 babies) and James for boys (1,030). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 30,445 babies born in Florida in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1927

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

Girls

Doretha: 18 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Elouise: 27 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Queen: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Mercedes: 18 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Essie: 44 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rosa: 108 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Earnestine: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Johnnie: 51 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Iris: 49 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Jewel: 36 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Emory: 20 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Nathaniel: 58 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 33 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Lamar: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Freddie: 42 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Johnnie: 85 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Cleveland: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Willie: 316 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Mack: 25 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Sammie: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	1,043	–	1
2	Dorothy	552	–	2
3	Betty	540	–	3
4	Margaret	313	–	5
5	Mildred	275	↑2	11
6	Helen	272	↓1	4
7	Doris	266	↓1	7
8	Frances	211	–	12
9	Annie	196	↑1	36
10	Ruth	196	↓1	6
11	Evelyn	184	↑2	15
12	Virginia	183	↑2	8
13	Louise	181	↓1	27
14	Elizabeth	175	↓3	13
15	Barbara	174	↑1	10
16	Martha	174	↑2	24
17	Thelma	161	–	38
18	Alice	158	↓3	17
19	Juanita	152	↑4	55
20	Ruby	149	↑2	30
21	Willie	145	↓1	71
22	Edna	144	↓3	40
23	Lois	139	↑3	19
24	Gloria	128	↓3	22
25	Marie	128	↑11	20
26	Gladys	126	↑4	37
27	Catherine	120	↑4	31
28	Sarah	115	↑9	61
29	Bernice	112	↑4	49
30	Jean	112	↓2	14
31	Patricia	109	↑7	18
32	Ethel	108	↑2	47
33	Hazel	108	↓9	53
34	Rosa	108	↓5	>100
35	Shirley	108	new	9
36	Joyce	101	↑4	35
37	Lillian	101	↓12	32
38	Marjorie	101	↓11	25
39	Edith	99	↓7	48
40	Lillie	99	↓5	94
41	Beatrice	82	new	67
42	Rose	79	new	23
43	Irene	77	new	21
44	Marion	75	↑5	51
45	Emma	74	new	64
46	Inez	72	new	>100
47	Bertha	71	↓2	80
48	Florence	71	↓5	28
49	Alma	70	new	97
50	Bessie	70	new	88

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	1,030	–	3
2	William	767	–	4
3	John	719	–	2
4	Robert	694	–	1
5	Charles	510	–	5
6	George	396	–	7
7	Willie	316	–	27
8	Joseph	254	↑4	9
9	Richard	251	↑1	6
10	Thomas	244	↓2	11
11	Edward	207	↓2	10
12	Frank	200	↑2	12
13	Jack	194	–	16
14	Henry	181	↓3	19
15	David	172	–	21
16	Walter	154	–	17
17	Donald	150	↑1	8
18	Albert	147	↑2	23
19	Harold	141	↓2	14
20	Joe	136	↑5	30
21	Samuel	132	↑12	49
22	Raymond	128	–	15
23	Harry	125	↑1	25
24	Clarence	124	↓1	32
25	Paul	120	↑2	13
26	Earl	118	–	33
27	Arthur	114	↓6	22
28	Ralph	114	↓9	24
29	Ernest	113	↓1	41
30	Fred	111	↑2	35
31	Eugene	110	↓2	20
32	Carl	104	↓1	26
33	Herbert	102	↑3	42
34	Charlie	99	↑5	80
35	Louis	94	↓1	29
36	Roy	88	↓1	34
37	Leroy	87	↓7	51
38	Billy	85	↑8	31
39	Johnnie	85	↑2	>100
40	Kenneth	81	↓3	18
41	Alfred	80	↓3	45
42	Daniel	77	–	46
43	Howard	70	–	28
44	Eddie	69	↑1	>100
45	Leonard	66	new	40
46	Clyde	65	new	68
47	Cecil	63	↓7	92
48	Jimmie	61	new	>100
49	Nathaniel	58	new	>100
50	Jesse	56	new	89

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