Popular baby names in Florida, 1931

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1931 were Mary for girls (781 babies) and James for boys (755). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,968 babies born in Florida in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1931

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: 15 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Vernell: 15 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Pearlie: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 53 babies, 5× the national rate
Earnestine: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Essie: 26 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Leola: 20 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Ernestine: 37 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Willie: 98 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Rosa: 62 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 52 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Moses: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Roosevelt: 25 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Julian: 24 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Willie: 267 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Earnest: 39 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Carlton: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Freddie: 33 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Amos: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 64 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	781	–	1
2	Betty	577	–	2
3	Dorothy	387	–	3
4	Barbara	252	–	4
5	Margaret	210	–	7
6	Helen	182	↑1	6
7	Elizabeth	158	↑4	16
8	Doris	156	↓2	10
9	Frances	156	–	18
10	Annie	153	↑3	41
11	Mildred	149	↓3	26
12	Martha	142	↑2	28
13	Patricia	139	↑9	8
14	Ruth	137	↓2	11
15	Evelyn	131	↓5	24
16	Joyce	129	↓1	15
17	Virginia	115	↑6	12
18	Shirley	111	↑9	9
19	Alice	107	↓1	21
20	Gloria	107	↑1	23
21	Thelma	98	↓5	53
22	Willie	98	↓2	93
23	Louise	96	↓6	33
24	Juanita	92	↑1	57
25	Joan	89	↑22	5
26	Lois	89	↑4	20
27	Ruby	87	↓8	39
28	Hazel	85	↑11	74
29	Catherine	84	↑2	36
30	Edna	82	↓4	52
31	Bernice	81	↑5	63
32	Lillian	80	↑3	47
33	Nancy	80	↑5	17
34	Jean	79	↓10	13
35	Carolyn	78	↑9	60
36	Clara	75	↑12	61
37	Sarah	74	↓8	71
38	Marjorie	73	↓5	34
39	Peggy	66	new	42
40	Edith	63	↑5	65
41	Ethel	62	↓1	67
42	Norma	62	new	22
43	Rosa	62	↓11	>100
44	June	60	new	44
45	Marie	60	↓8	27
46	Ann	59	new	35
47	Gladys	57	↓19	55
48	Josephine	57	new	51
49	Emma	56	↓3	76
50	Vivian	56	↓8	82

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	James	755	–	2
2	William	597	–	4
3	Robert	558	–	1
4	John	487	–	3
5	Charles	435	–	6
6	George	318	–	8
7	Willie	267	–	31
8	Richard	217	–	5
9	Thomas	197	↑1	10
10	Jack	179	↑6	15
11	Donald	170	↑3	7
12	Joseph	166	↓3	9
13	Edward	154	↓2	11
14	Frank	149	↑1	16
15	David	131	↓2	13
16	Henry	129	↓4	22
17	Walter	129	–	20
18	Harold	106	↑1	18
19	Raymond	102	↑20	17
20	Eugene	97	↓2	21
21	Clarence	95	↑3	39
22	Carl	92	↑9	28
23	Billy	90	↑6	19
24	Samuel	90	↑12	56
25	Arthur	89	–	23
26	Earl	86	↓4	40
27	Fred	83	↑5	33
28	Paul	83	–	12
29	Albert	81	↓6	24
30	Bobby	79	↑12	32
31	Kenneth	79	↑4	14
32	Ernest	78	↑1	47
33	Ralph	78	↓6	25
34	Joe	77	↓13	29
35	Eddie	74	↑5	95
36	Harry	74	↓10	30
37	Roy	74	↓7	35
38	Herbert	70	–	41
39	Leroy	70	↓19	52
40	Louis	67	↑4	37
41	Charlie	66	↑2	94
42	Johnnie	64	↓5	>100
43	Jimmie	61	↑7	81
44	Howard	56	↓10	34
45	Jimmy	54	new	89
46	Lawrence	54	↑3	38
47	Clyde	53	new	77
48	Johnny	52	↓7	>100
49	Nathaniel	52	↓1	>100
50	Lewis	49	new	87

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