Popular baby names in Florida, 1935

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1935 were Mary for girls (780 babies) and James for boys (891). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 24,851 babies born in Florida in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1935

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: 20 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Earnestine: 22 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Essie: 31 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Inez: 42 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Pearlie: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Johnnie: 41 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Nell: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Rosa: 62 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Gwendolyn: 39 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Willie: 87 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Alphonso: 23 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Lamar: 15 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Nathaniel: 42 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Freddie: 57 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Johnnie: 73 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Horace: 38 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Isaac: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Roosevelt: 35 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Willie: 250 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Earnest: 35 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	780	–	1
2	Betty	575	–	4
3	Shirley	491	↑2	2
4	Barbara	444	↓1	3
5	Dorothy	336	↓1	6
6	Patricia	233	–	5
7	Margaret	181	↑1	8
8	Frances	156	↑2	19
9	Martha	154	–	24
10	Helen	148	↓3	10
11	Annie	142	–	38
12	Joyce	141	–	12
13	Doris	135	↑1	13
14	Elizabeth	132	↑3	17
15	Evelyn	129	↓2	31
16	Gloria	129	↑6	32
17	Virginia	127	↓1	16
18	Nancy	124	↑1	9
19	Carolyn	123	↓4	28
20	Joan	108	↓2	7
21	Mildred	108	↓1	35
22	Ruth	105	↑6	15
23	Juanita	92	↓2	72
24	Alice	91	↓1	25
25	Ruby	90	↑1	41
26	Louise	88	↓1	45
27	Willie	87	↑5	99
28	Sarah	85	↑16	61
29	Norma	82	–	29
30	Ann	81	↑8	30
31	Carol	78	↑9	11
32	Catherine	77	↓5	42
33	Edna	77	↓3	67
34	Bernice	76	↑1	90
35	Marie	74	↑12	33
36	Sylvia	73	↑1	60
37	Hazel	70	new	92
38	Lois	70	↓5	21
39	Thelma	70	↓8	76
40	Lillie	69	new	>100
41	Jean	68	↓17	18
42	Gladys	67	↓3	78
43	Peggy	67	↓9	36
44	Marilyn	62	new	14
45	Rosa	62	↑1	>100
46	Ethel	61	new	82
47	June	59	new	55
48	Geraldine	58	↓12	40
49	Delores	56	new	57
50	Lillian	55	↓8	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	James	891	–	2
2	Robert	627	–	1
3	William	566	↑1	4
4	John	562	↓1	3
5	Charles	464	–	6
6	George	278	–	8
7	Willie	250	–	30
8	Richard	248	–	5
9	Donald	229	↑1	7
10	Thomas	220	↓1	9
11	David	194	–	11
12	Joseph	190	–	10
13	Frank	154	↑4	16
14	Edward	140	–	13
15	Henry	134	↓2	27
16	Billy	120	↑5	19
17	Walter	114	↓1	23
18	Joe	108	↑2	25
19	Paul	106	↑12	14
20	Bobby	103	↑6	24
21	Clarence	103	↑19	48
22	Arthur	101	↑13	29
23	Raymond	101	↓1	17
24	Samuel	101	↑3	62
25	Carl	100	↑8	28
26	Jack	96	↓8	18
27	Albert	92	↑3	31
28	Earl	92	↑14	46
29	Jimmy	91	↑14	47
30	Ralph	90	↑2	32
31	Fred	89	↑17	34
32	Leroy	89	↓3	50
33	Harold	87	↓14	20
34	Ronald	87	↓10	12
35	Eugene	86	↓12	26
36	Kenneth	85	↓21	15
37	Jerry	83	↓12	22
38	Ernest	81	↓10	55
39	Johnny	77	↑5	74
40	Eddie	74	↓1	87
41	Johnnie	73	↑4	>100
42	Harry	72	↓8	37
43	Jimmie	71	↓7	69
44	Roy	65	↓6	40
45	Gerald	64	new	21
46	Herbert	62	–	58
47	Louis	59	↓6	42
48	Marvin	59	new	45
49	Franklin	58	↓12	71
50	Daniel	57	new	43

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