Popular baby names in Florida, 1932

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1932 were Mary for girls (839 babies) and James for boys (854). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 24,389 babies born in Florida in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1932

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: 15 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Elouise: 24 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Earnestine: 18 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Ruthie: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Rosa: 82 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Essie: 31 babies, 4× the national rate
Pearlie: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Johnnie: 43 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Lucile: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Willie: 104 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Roosevelt: 48 babies, 5× the national rate
Amos: 20 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Nathaniel: 41 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Freddie: 41 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Horace: 39 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Willie: 269 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Earnest: 34 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Doyle: 22 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Johnnie: 60 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Mack: 19 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	839	–	1
2	Betty	603	–	2
3	Dorothy	394	–	4
4	Barbara	307	–	3
5	Margaret	195	–	7
6	Helen	193	–	8
7	Patricia	161	↑6	6
8	Martha	153	↑4	27
9	Annie	152	↑1	41
10	Doris	151	↓2	10
11	Elizabeth	151	↓4	17
12	Joyce	146	↑4	12
13	Frances	141	↓4	19
14	Virginia	137	↑3	14
15	Evelyn	134	–	23
16	Ruth	131	↓2	11
17	Mildred	127	↓6	26
18	Gloria	126	↑2	25
19	Shirley	121	↓1	9
20	Alice	115	↓1	21
21	Ruby	113	↑6	38
22	Louise	110	↑1	36
23	Juanita	106	↑1	58
24	Willie	104	↓2	91
25	Nancy	102	↑8	13
26	Joan	93	↓1	5
27	Sarah	87	↑10	67
28	Carolyn	84	↑7	46
29	Edna	84	↑1	50
30	Catherine	83	↓1	39
31	Rosa	82	↑12	>100
32	Thelma	82	↓11	51
33	Lois	78	↓7	20
34	Gladys	77	↑13	54
35	Lillie	74	new	>100
36	Hazel	72	↓8	75
37	Norma	71	↑5	22
38	Jean	65	↓4	15
39	Peggy	64	–	40
40	Vera	63	new	>100
41	Edith	62	↓1	69
42	Ethel	62	↓1	66
43	Marjorie	62	↓5	37
44	Bernice	61	↓13	71
45	Emma	61	↑4	76
46	Marie	61	↓1	31
47	Ann	60	↓1	34
48	Lillian	60	↓16	48
49	Anna	58	new	24
50	Dolores	57	new	18

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	James	854	–	2
2	Robert	624	↑1	1
3	John	584	↑1	3
4	William	540	↓2	4
5	Charles	496	–	6
6	George	274	–	8
7	Willie	269	–	31
8	Richard	213	–	5
9	Thomas	203	–	10
10	Donald	190	↑1	7
11	David	189	↑4	12
12	Joseph	188	–	9
13	Edward	168	–	11
14	Henry	150	↑2	23
15	Frank	137	↓1	15
16	Walter	122	↑1	21
17	Jack	120	↓7	17
18	Harold	115	–	18
19	Joe	112	↑15	29
20	Billy	108	↑3	20
21	Eugene	106	↓1	22
22	Paul	104	↑6	13
23	Raymond	104	↓4	19
24	Albert	100	↑5	26
25	Carl	100	↓3	28
26	Earl	97	–	41
27	Leroy	96	↑12	53
28	Arthur	93	↓3	25
29	Clarence	93	↓8	40
30	Samuel	92	↓6	56
31	Ralph	89	↑2	27
32	Roy	88	↑5	38
33	Kenneth	82	↓2	14
34	Harry	80	↑2	32
35	Herbert	78	↑3	44
36	Bobby	76	↓6	30
37	Ernest	76	↓5	47
38	Jimmie	76	↑5	75
39	Ronald	71	new	16
40	Fred	70	↓13	33
41	Eddie	68	↓6	91
42	Louis	68	↓2	39
43	Howard	66	↑1	36
44	Johnnie	60	↓2	>100
45	Charlie	59	↓4	90
46	Jerry	59	new	34
47	Johnny	56	↑1	96
48	Franklin	55	new	66
49	Lawrence	55	↓3	35
50	Lewis	55	–	92

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