Popular baby names in Florida, 1928

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1928 were Mary for girls (916 babies) and James for boys (958). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 26,760 babies born in Florida in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1928

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: 21 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Myrtice: 21 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Gussie: 15 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Elouise: 17 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Johnnie: 68 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Leila: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Eddie: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Ernestine: 49 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rosa: 89 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Flossie: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Doyle: 67 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Nathaniel: 55 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Moses: 22 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Lamar: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Cleveland: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Freddie: 38 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Carlton: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 26 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lonnie: 35 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rufus: 30 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	916	–	1
2	Dorothy	510	–	3
3	Betty	492	–	2
4	Margaret	279	–	5
5	Helen	261	↑1	4
6	Annie	211	↑3	37
7	Doris	208	–	7
8	Ruth	202	↑2	6
9	Mildred	198	↓4	15
10	Barbara	186	↑5	8
11	Evelyn	174	–	17
12	Martha	172	↑4	22
13	Frances	165	↓5	13
14	Elizabeth	156	–	14
15	Louise	155	↓2	31
16	Virginia	152	↓4	9
17	Alice	145	↑1	19
18	Ruby	136	↑2	34
19	Patricia	127	↑12	11
20	Willie	124	↑1	74
21	Edna	119	↑1	45
22	Thelma	117	↓5	40
23	Gloria	112	↑1	25
24	Juanita	112	↓5	58
25	Lois	102	↓2	18
26	Sarah	102	↑2	64
27	Gladys	101	↓1	41
28	Joyce	98	↑8	30
29	Lillian	98	↑8	35
30	Jean	93	–	12
31	Bernice	92	↓2	53
32	Catherine	92	↓5	33
33	Shirley	91	↑2	10
34	Marjorie	90	↑4	29
35	Rosa	89	↓1	>100
36	Marie	84	↓11	21
37	Hazel	80	↓4	59
38	Ethel	77	↓6	55
39	Bertha	76	↑8	81
40	Lillie	76	–	>100
41	Edith	73	↓2	56
42	Johnnie	68	new	>100
43	Geraldine	67	new	50
44	Nancy	65	new	43
45	Ella	64	new	100
46	Florence	64	↑2	32
47	Myrtle	63	new	>100
48	Grace	62	new	52
49	Lucille	62	new	51
50	Pauline	62	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	James	958	–	3
2	William	685	–	4
3	John	628	–	2
4	Robert	621	–	1
5	Charles	448	–	5
6	George	355	–	8
7	Willie	314	–	29
8	Richard	229	↑1	6
9	Thomas	224	↑1	11
10	Joseph	208	↓2	9
11	Edward	197	–	10
12	Henry	192	↑2	21
13	David	184	↑2	19
14	Frank	169	↓2	12
15	Jack	166	↓2	15
16	Walter	156	–	18
17	Donald	142	–	7
18	Albert	126	–	23
19	Harold	125	–	14
20	Earl	120	↑6	37
21	Joe	120	↓1	30
22	Harry	116	↑1	26
23	Paul	116	↑2	13
24	Herbert	106	↑9	25
25	Samuel	106	↓4	52
26	Eugene	105	↑5	20
27	Ralph	103	↑1	24
28	Arthur	101	↓1	22
29	Leroy	100	↑8	51
30	Clarence	98	↓6	35
31	Ernest	95	↓2	43
32	Raymond	94	↓10	16
33	Fred	93	↓3	36
34	Charlie	77	–	80
35	Kenneth	76	↑5	17
36	Roy	76	–	34
37	Carl	75	↓5	28
38	Howard	74	↑5	31
39	Alfred	71	↑2	33
40	Billy	70	↓2	27
41	Jimmie	70	↑7	100
42	Eddie	69	↑2	>100
43	Doyle	67	new	>100
44	Daniel	66	↓2	47
45	Louis	65	↓10	32
46	Clyde	58	–	74
47	Johnnie	56	↓8	>100
48	Lawrence	55	new	38
49	Nathaniel	55	–	>100
50	Leon	54	new	81

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