Popular baby names in Florida, 1930

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1930 were Mary for girls (801 babies) and James for boys (824). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,923 babies born in Florida in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1930

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

Girls

Elouise: 33 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Lorine: 18 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Corine: 16 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Earnestine: 18 babies, 5× the national rate
Essie: 30 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Rosa: 83 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Ernestine: 41 babies, 4× the national rate
Dollie: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Janie: 27 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Lucile: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Alphonso: 16 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Nathaniel: 54 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Cleveland: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 25 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Johnnie: 78 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Mack: 22 babies, 4× the national rate
Horace: 41 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rufus: 24 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Reginald: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Willie: 264 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	801	–	1
2	Betty	576	–	2
3	Dorothy	377	–	3
4	Barbara	208	↑4	6
5	Margaret	204	↑1	5
6	Doris	193	↓1	9
7	Helen	193	↓3	4
8	Mildred	170	↓1	21
9	Frances	166	↑1	16
10	Evelyn	151	↑5	19
11	Elizabeth	146	↑1	15
12	Ruth	146	↓1	10
13	Annie	144	↓4	40
14	Martha	143	↑2	27
15	Joyce	117	↑3	18
16	Thelma	117	↑3	45
17	Louise	114	↓4	31
18	Alice	111	↑4	20
19	Ruby	109	↑1	36
20	Willie	104	↓3	87
21	Gloria	102	↑9	30
22	Patricia	101	↑3	7
23	Virginia	101	↓9	12
24	Jean	98	↑4	14
25	Juanita	97	↓4	57
26	Edna	96	↓2	51
27	Shirley	96	↑9	11
28	Gladys	90	↑5	48
29	Sarah	90	↑8	70
30	Lois	89	↓4	17
31	Catherine	83	↑4	35
32	Rosa	83	↓5	>100
33	Marjorie	81	↓4	32
34	Lillie	79	↑15	>100
35	Lillian	78	↑4	44
36	Bernice	77	↓5	58
37	Marie	75	↑9	26
38	Nancy	74	↑10	24
39	Hazel	73	↓16	71
40	Ethel	72	↓6	65
41	Ida	69	new	94
42	Vivian	66	new	91
43	Geraldine	65	↓11	43
44	Carolyn	64	new	72
45	Edith	61	↓3	61
46	Emma	61	↓6	73
47	Joan	61	↓2	8
48	Clara	60	↓10	64
49	Laura	59	new	89
50	Rose	57	↓9	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	James	824	–	2
2	William	631	↑1	4
3	Robert	601	↓1	1
4	John	584	–	3
5	Charles	404	–	6
6	George	311	–	8
7	Willie	264	–	29
8	Richard	213	↑2	5
9	Joseph	207	–	9
10	Thomas	201	↓2	11
11	Edward	194	↑4	10
12	Henry	164	↓1	22
13	David	159	↑1	15
14	Donald	147	↑2	7
15	Frank	138	↓3	13
16	Jack	138	↑1	14
17	Walter	124	↑1	19
18	Eugene	117	↑4	21
19	Harold	113	↑1	18
20	Leroy	113	↑5	53
21	Joe	110	↓2	27
22	Earl	105	↑17	38
23	Albert	97	↓2	24
24	Clarence	96	↑7	39
25	Arthur	94	↓2	23
26	Harry	88	↓2	28
27	Ralph	87	↓1	25
28	Paul	85	↓1	12
29	Billy	83	↑1	20
30	Roy	82	↑6	33
31	Carl	81	↑9	26
32	Fred	81	↑6	32
33	Ernest	80	↓4	43
34	Howard	79	↑13	31
35	Kenneth	79	↓3	17
36	Samuel	79	↓3	55
37	Johnnie	78	↑4	>100
38	Herbert	76	↓25	35
39	Raymond	76	↓11	16
40	Eddie	68	↓3	97
41	Johnny	65	new	>100
42	Bobby	64	↑7	41
43	Charlie	62	↓1	91
44	Louis	59	↓9	34
45	Daniel	58	↓1	47
46	Alfred	56	↓12	46
47	Theodore	55	new	67
48	Nathaniel	54	new	>100
49	Lawrence	48	new	36
50	Jimmie	46	↓2	86

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