Popular baby names in Florida, 1946

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1946 were Mary for girls (1,123 babies) and James for boys (1,652). Social Security records list 49,785 babies born in Florida in 1946 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1946

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: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Queen: 18 babies, 5× the national rate
Earnestine: 27 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Deloris: 49 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Bettye: 38 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Ruthie: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Lenora: 19 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Mamie: 28 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Gilda: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Jacquelyn: 58 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Alphonso: 31 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Nathaniel: 75 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Lamar: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Elijah: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Freddie: 95 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 31 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lorenzo: 17 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Willie: 405 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Tommie: 32 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Winston: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Florida, 1946

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	Mary	1,123	–	1
2	Linda	933	–	2
3	Patricia	875	–	3
4	Barbara	804	–	4
5	Sandra	613	–	6
6	Betty	544	–	14
7	Carolyn	475	↑2	12
8	Carol	441	↓1	5
9	Sharon	437	↑1	9
10	Shirley	430	↓2	18
11	Susan	347	↑5	8
12	Nancy	332	–	7
13	Margaret	309	↓2	17
14	Dorothy	302	–	23
15	Gloria	301	↓2	26
16	Joyce	284	↓1	20
17	Martha	252	↑2	32
18	Donna	243	↑2	13
19	Judith	238	↓2	10
20	Judy	237	↓2	11
21	Elizabeth	224	↑1	25
22	Janice	220	↑4	22
23	Brenda	206	↑10	24
24	Frances	197	↓3	39
25	Helen	176	↑3	36
26	Alice	175	↑3	44
27	Diane	170	↓2	19
28	Virginia	169	↓5	31
29	Cynthia	163	new	46
30	Pamela	163	↑12	34
31	Cheryl	162	↑3	27
32	Beverly	154	–	30
33	Karen	150	↓9	15
34	Annie	144	↓7	97
35	Catherine	134	↑10	48
36	Kathleen	131	↑4	16
37	Janet	130	↓7	21
38	Joan	129	↑1	28
39	Marilyn	125	↑4	29
40	Bonnie	119	↓9	33
41	Evelyn	119	↓6	65
42	Sarah	116	↑2	92
43	Sylvia	110	↑4	82
44	Doris	109	↓3	51
45	Ann	107	↓8	40
46	Jane	107	new	35
47	Peggy	107	↓11	43
48	Laura	101	new	75
49	Wanda	101	new	59
50	Ruth	98	↓12	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	James	1,652	–	1
2	Robert	1,365	–	2
3	John	1,273	–	3
4	William	1,173	–	4
5	Charles	768	–	9
6	Richard	731	–	5
7	David	574	–	6
8	Thomas	528	–	8
9	Michael	499	–	7
10	Ronald	451	↑1	10
11	George	442	↓1	16
12	Donald	408	↑3	13
13	Willie	405	↓1	40
14	Larry	402	–	11
15	Joseph	358	↓2	14
16	Kenneth	287	↑1	15
17	Edward	278	↓1	19
18	Jerry	273	–	20
19	Gary	226	↑2	12
20	Frank	219	↓1	22
21	Henry	213	↑1	41
22	Paul	208	↓2	18
23	Johnny	200	–	47
24	Wayne	179	↑7	29
25	Daniel	176	↑3	21
26	Raymond	175	↓1	25
27	Dennis	174	↑10	17
28	Walter	168	↓4	30
29	Harold	164	↑1	33
30	Harry	151	↓4	50
31	Roy	150	↓2	43
32	Samuel	146	↑2	70
33	Stephen	145	↑7	24
34	Arthur	144	↓7	36
35	Terry	144	new	26
36	Jimmy	140	↓3	42
37	Ronnie	139	new	54
38	Jack	138	↑7	35
39	Lawrence	138	↑2	31
40	Albert	136	↓5	52
41	Ernest	134	new	71
42	Carl	133	–	39
43	Ralph	132	–	48
44	Eddie	122	↑3	85
45	Leroy	122	↑4	90
46	Gerald	121	↓8	27
47	Roger	116	↓8	23
48	Billy	113	new	45
49	Bobby	113	↓5	53
50	Clarence	113	–	89

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