Popular baby names in Florida, 1939

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1939 were Mary for girls (888 babies) and James for boys (1,057). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 28,169 babies born in Florida in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1939

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: 23 babies, 10× the national rate
Freddie: 19 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Bettye: 32 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Leola: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Mae: 51 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Ollie: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Daisy: 34 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Iris: 31 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Essie: 19 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Lenora: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Elijah: 23 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Amos: 21 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Nathaniel: 49 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Cleveland: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Horace: 39 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Willie: 329 babies, 4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 30 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Johnnie: 70 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Julian: 22 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Freddie: 54 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	888	–	1
2	Barbara	543	–	2
3	Betty	528	–	4
4	Patricia	328	↑1	3
5	Shirley	293	↓1	5
6	Dorothy	259	–	9
7	Martha	208	–	27
8	Margaret	206	↑1	10
9	Nancy	189	↑4	7
10	Carolyn	181	↓2	14
11	Joyce	169	↑3	12
12	Frances	167	↓2	26
13	Elizabeth	164	↑2	18
14	Sandra	157	↑2	13
15	Helen	156	↓3	16
16	Annie	148	↓5	54
17	Linda	131	new	15
18	Carol	130	↑2	6
19	Virginia	123	–	21
20	Gloria	117	↓3	36
21	Alice	113	↑1	31
22	Doris	107	↑1	29
23	Sylvia	103	↓2	62
24	Evelyn	102	↓6	40
25	Ruth	101	↑5	22
26	Judith	98	↑21	8
27	Ruby	96	↑4	67
28	Joan	93	↓3	11
29	Sarah	93	↓3	68
30	Mildred	91	↓3	55
31	Judy	90	new	28
32	Norma	83	↑2	38
33	Catherine	80	↑4	49
34	Willie	78	↑1	>100
35	Janice	76	↑11	24
36	Marilyn	75	new	19
37	Jean	73	↑4	32
38	Juanita	73	↓10	77
39	Lillian	72	↑10	99
40	Geraldine	71	↓2	41
41	Peggy	70	↓9	34
42	Ann	68	↓13	33
43	Jeanette	68	new	82
44	Joann	65	new	57
45	Louise	65	↓21	59
46	Edna	62	↓10	81
47	Jacqueline	61	new	72
48	Thelma	61	↓8	88
49	Beverly	59	↓16	25
50	Emma	58	new	89

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	James	1,057	–	2
2	Robert	747	–	1
3	John	664	–	3
4	William	622	–	4
5	Charles	577	–	6
6	Willie	329	↑2	33
7	George	308	↓1	11
8	Richard	306	↓1	5
9	David	274	–	7
10	Donald	273	↑1	8
11	Thomas	255	↓1	9
12	Joseph	233	–	12
13	Edward	192	↑1	15
14	Henry	174	↓1	31
15	Kenneth	146	↑1	13
16	Ronald	144	↑3	10
17	Walter	136	↓2	25
18	Frank	135	–	20
19	Jerry	135	↑1	16
20	Joe	129	↑5	27
21	Bobby	123	↓4	29
22	Arthur	120	↓1	32
23	Jack	117	↑1	26
24	Billy	112	↑2	24
25	Harold	109	↓3	23
26	Raymond	104	↓3	22
27	Michael	103	↑10	18
28	Eugene	100	–	37
29	Albert	97	↑4	41
30	Carl	97	↑1	30
31	Larry	96	↑16	14
32	Gerald	95	↑9	19
33	Ralph	95	↓4	35
34	Eddie	91	↑1	81
35	Samuel	89	↑1	63
36	Clarence	88	↑2	60
37	Ernest	88	↑2	55
38	Paul	86	↓11	17
39	Roy	86	↓5	42
40	Jimmy	84	↓8	43
41	Earl	79	↑1	50
42	Johnny	78	↓12	62
43	Fred	77	–	40
44	Harry	73	↓4	45
45	Jimmie	73	↑4	80
46	Leroy	73	↓1	61
47	Lawrence	72	new	36
48	Daniel	70	–	38
49	Johnnie	70	new	>100
50	Herbert	66	new	68

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