Popular baby names in Florida, 1937

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1937 were Mary for girls (816 babies) and James for boys (918). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 25,808 babies born in Florida in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1937

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: 17 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Bettye: 35 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Johnnie: 47 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Daisy: 41 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Earnestine: 19 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Rosa: 69 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Pearlie: 17 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Lottie: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Ola: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Willie: 88 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Alphonso: 18 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Lamar: 16 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Nathaniel: 37 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 35 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Isaac: 22 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Freddie: 56 babies, 4× the national rate
Rufus: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Sylvester: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Willie: 291 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Aaron: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	816	–	1
2	Betty	544	–	5
3	Barbara	484	–	2
4	Shirley	351	–	4
5	Dorothy	299	–	8
6	Patricia	284	–	3
7	Martha	180	↑1	24
8	Margaret	178	↓1	10
9	Carolyn	170	↑1	20
10	Frances	157	↑2	19
11	Joyce	157	↓2	11
12	Nancy	149	↑4	7
13	Annie	148	↓2	46
14	Helen	143	↓1	12
15	Elizabeth	141	–	17
16	Joan	123	↓2	9
17	Doris	117	–	22
18	Sylvia	116	↑6	50
19	Evelyn	115	↑2	36
20	Gloria	115	↓2	32
21	Virginia	114	↓1	16
22	Jean	110	↑3	23
23	Juanita	105	↑6	75
24	Sandra	103	new	26
25	Carol	100	↑17	6
26	Alice	99	↓4	28
27	Ruth	93	↓4	15
28	Peggy	88	–	31
29	Willie	88	↑2	>100
30	Sarah	87	↑5	65
31	Ruby	85	↓5	52
32	Ann	81	↑2	30
33	Thelma	78	↓3	78
34	Lillie	75	↑7	>100
35	Edna	73	↑5	74
36	Lois	72	–	29
37	Louise	72	↓10	48
38	Jeanette	70	new	90
39	Ethel	69	new	88
40	Rosa	69	new	>100
41	Mildred	68	↓22	43
42	Norma	68	↓5	33
43	Yvonne	66	new	77
44	Beverly	65	↑4	14
45	Emma	59	new	89
46	Catherine	57	↓13	47
47	Bertha	56	new	>100
48	Delores	55	new	68
49	Jo	54	↓3	73
50	Minnie	54	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	James	918	–	2
2	Robert	668	–	1
3	William	617	↑1	4
4	John	583	↓1	3
5	Charles	505	–	6
6	George	303	–	10
7	Willie	291	↑1	32
8	Thomas	260	↑3	9
9	Donald	247	–	7
10	Richard	247	↓3	5
11	David	213	↓1	8
12	Edward	187	↑1	13
13	Joseph	173	↓1	12
14	Henry	162	–	30
15	Joe	135	–	25
16	Kenneth	122	↑14	14
17	Bobby	121	↑1	24
18	Ronald	120	↑2	11
19	Walter	120	↓2	26
20	Frank	119	↓4	18
21	Billy	106	↑4	22
22	Paul	104	↑6	15
23	Jack	101	↑8	23
24	Harold	100	↓1	21
25	Samuel	100	↑20	66
26	Fred	98	↑10	35
27	Ralph	97	↑13	34
28	Carl	95	↓2	28
29	Raymond	94	↓7	19
30	Eugene	93	↓9	33
31	Clarence	92	↑4	54
32	Leroy	92	↓5	56
33	Arthur	90	↓1	31
34	Jerry	90	–	17
35	Roy	83	↓2	40
36	Albert	82	↓17	37
37	Jimmie	79	↑4	72
38	Earl	76	↑8	48
39	Jimmy	74	↓15	45
40	Ernest	73	↑7	53
41	Johnny	69	↓12	69
42	Eddie	67	↓5	83
43	Harry	67	↓5	41
44	Johnnie	63	↓2	>100
45	Gerald	62	new	20
46	Tommy	61	↓2	84
47	Marvin	57	new	49
48	Freddie	56	new	>100
49	Alfred	53	new	60
50	Gene	53	new	61

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