Popular baby names in Florida, 1933

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1933 were Mary for girls (680 babies) and James for boys (749). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,201 babies born in Florida in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1933

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: 26 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Queen: 17 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Johnnie: 41 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Jewel: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Bettye: 32 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Leola: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Rosa: 61 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Katie: 27 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Frankie: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Eunice: 39 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 44 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Johnnie: 73 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Amos: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Freddie: 39 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Willie: 246 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Horace: 33 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Isaac: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Charlie: 70 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 42 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Rufus: 16 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	680	–	1
2	Betty	597	–	2
3	Dorothy	329	–	4
4	Barbara	325	–	3
5	Margaret	188	–	7
6	Patricia	173	↑1	6
7	Helen	171	↓1	8
8	Annie	159	↑1	37
9	Joyce	145	↑3	12
10	Shirley	144	↑9	9
11	Martha	142	↓3	27
12	Doris	132	↓2	10
13	Elizabeth	130	↓2	17
14	Frances	129	↓1	18
15	Ruth	123	↑1	13
16	Alice	112	↑4	22
17	Mildred	106	–	32
18	Carolyn	105	↑10	40
19	Gloria	105	↓1	31
20	Nancy	100	↑5	11
21	Evelyn	99	↓6	30
22	Virginia	99	↓8	15
23	Jean	96	↑15	14
24	Joan	95	↑2	5
25	Louise	81	↓3	39
26	Juanita	79	↓3	63
27	Edna	77	↑2	55
28	Norma	77	↑9	23
29	Sarah	75	↓2	58
30	Peggy	74	↑9	36
31	Ruby	74	↓10	43
32	Lois	73	↑1	19
33	Willie	71	↓9	93
34	Hazel	69	↑2	82
35	Clara	68	new	67
36	Bernice	64	↑8	83
37	Gladys	64	↓3	60
38	Thelma	63	↓6	57
39	Lillian	62	↑9	51
40	Ann	61	↑7	34
41	Lillie	61	↓6	>100
42	Rosa	61	↓11	>100
43	Marjorie	60	–	41
44	Catherine	57	↓14	44
45	Geraldine	57	new	42
46	Ethel	55	↓4	71
47	Sylvia	55	new	84
48	Vivian	52	new	98
49	Emma	49	↓4	75
50	Ida	49	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	James	749	–	2
2	John	523	↑1	3
3	Robert	517	↓1	1
4	William	470	–	4
5	Charles	407	–	6
6	Willie	246	↑1	32
7	George	240	↓1	8
8	Richard	218	–	5
9	David	187	↑2	13
10	Thomas	180	↓1	10
11	Donald	168	↓1	7
12	Joseph	165	–	9
13	Edward	154	–	11
14	Frank	130	↑1	16
15	Henry	121	↓1	24
16	Walter	116	–	21
17	Joe	115	↑2	27
18	Harold	104	–	18
19	Eugene	101	↑2	23
20	Franklin	99	↑28	33
21	Raymond	99	↑2	19
22	Jack	94	↓5	17
23	Albert	91	↑1	30
24	Kenneth	91	↑9	15
25	Ralph	89	↑6	29
26	Arthur	88	↑2	25
27	Billy	87	↓7	20
28	Bobby	87	↑8	26
29	Paul	87	↓7	14
30	Leroy	86	↓3	56
31	Ronald	85	↑8	12
32	Clarence	80	↓3	43
33	Harry	80	↑1	35
34	Samuel	76	↓4	61
35	Carl	73	↓10	28
36	Johnnie	73	↑8	>100
37	Ernest	71	–	50
38	Charlie	70	↑7	95
39	Fred	65	↑1	34
40	Herbert	63	↓5	49
41	Earl	61	↓15	41
42	Louis	59	–	40
43	Marvin	57	new	44
44	Jimmie	56	↓6	72
45	Johnny	55	↑2	90
46	Jerry	54	–	31
47	Jimmy	53	new	64
48	Eddie	52	↓7	93
49	Daniel	51	new	42
50	Roy	51	↓18	39

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