Popular baby names in Georgia, 1910

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1910 were Mary for girls (841 babies) and James for boys (673). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 24,589 babies born in Georgia in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in Georgia that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Myrtice: 26 babies, 13× the national rate
Ossie: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Florine: 29 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Charlie: 17 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Mozelle: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Lizzie: 106 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Johnnie: 62 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Evie: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Leila: 33 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Jimmie: 26 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Boys

Hoke: 16 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Grady: 25 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Willie: 561 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Charlie: 207 babies, 4× the national rate
Moses: 23 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 87 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Eddie: 94 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Otis: 45 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Earnest: 40 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Cleveland: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	841	1
2	Annie	553	19
3	Mattie	320	60
4	Ruby	279	27
5	Willie	275	56
6	Louise	231	20
7	Lillie	222	54
8	Ethel	207	13
9	Bessie	194	37
10	Rosa	190	83
11	Ruth	189	5
12	Elizabeth	184	7
13	Emma	171	34
14	Marie	166	9
15	Minnie	165	50
16	Carrie	163	70
17	Hattie	163	73
18	Fannie	160	78
19	Sarah	158	40
20	Mamie	152	86
21	Alice	150	10
22	Frances	143	11
23	Mildred	133	8
24	Thelma	133	25
25	Bertha	130	33
26	Gladys	130	15
27	Clara	129	32
28	Martha	127	28
29	Susie	127	>100
30	Jessie	124	63
31	Nellie	122	51
32	Essie	121	>100
33	Lillian	121	14
34	Lucille	117	31
35	Anna	116	6
36	Eva	115	45
37	Margaret	113	3
38	Ida	112	47
39	Lula	112	93
40	Pearl	112	39
41	Ella	111	62
42	Evelyn	110	17
43	Maggie	110	95
44	Daisy	107	>100
45	Julia	107	49
46	Lizzie	106	>100
47	Cora	103	85
48	Gertrude	102	26
49	Dorothy	100	4
50	Lucile	100	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	James	673	2
2	Willie	561	11
3	John	557	1
4	William	415	3
5	Robert	358	4
6	George	272	5
7	Henry	233	10
8	Charlie	207	34
9	Charles	156	7
10	Thomas	156	12
11	Joe	150	25
12	Joseph	141	6
13	Frank	133	8
14	Walter	132	13
15	Clarence	99	20
16	Arthur	97	17
17	Eddie	94	59
18	Johnnie	87	74
19	Albert	85	14
20	Fred	85	22
21	Jack	82	23
22	Edward	78	9
23	Leroy	74	50
24	Paul	72	15
25	Jessie	71	72
26	Roy	68	29
27	Ernest	65	31
28	David	64	30
29	Samuel	61	32
30	Sam	60	40
31	Ralph	57	28
32	Richard	54	21
33	Tom	53	82
34	Lee	51	49
35	Jesse	49	60
36	Andrew	46	42
37	Otis	45	>100
38	Will	43	>100
39	Howard	41	27
40	Earnest	40	>100
41	Eugene	40	39
42	Herbert	38	41
43	Lewis	38	65
44	Luther	38	87
45	Clifford	37	66
46	Harold	37	18
47	Jim	37	100
48	Benjamin	36	70
49	Carl	36	26
50	Louis	35	24

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