Popular baby names in Georgia, 1911

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1911 were Mary for girls (893 babies) and James for boys (706). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,962 babies born in Georgia in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1911

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: 22 babies, 10× the national rate
Eddie: 30 babies, 7× the national rate
Johnnie: 55 babies, 6× the national rate
Leila: 30 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Essie: 107 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lizzie: 85 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Jimmie: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Tommie: 15 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Gussie: 46 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Corine: 28 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Boys

Emory: 17 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Grady: 39 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lonnie: 42 babies, 5× the national rate
Tommie: 30 babies, 5× the national rate
Grover: 22 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Willie: 469 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Johnnie: 87 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Charlie: 173 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Will: 40 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Cleveland: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	893	–	1
2	Annie	520	–	24
3	Willie	284	↑2	61
4	Ruby	278	–	22
5	Mattie	265	↓2	65
6	Louise	251	–	19
7	Ruth	229	↑4	5
8	Lillie	212	↓1	60
9	Ethel	209	↓1	15
10	Elizabeth	200	↑2	7
11	Bessie	199	↓2	40
12	Minnie	170	↑3	52
13	Frances	165	↑9	10
14	Emma	156	↓1	35
15	Mamie	155	↑5	89
16	Martha	154	↑12	28
17	Marie	149	↓3	9
18	Margaret	148	↑19	3
19	Rosa	148	↓9	92
20	Sarah	148	↓1	42
21	Carrie	147	↓5	78
22	Gladys	141	↑4	18
23	Alice	140	↓2	11
24	Thelma	133	–	27
25	Jessie	132	↑5	66
26	Hattie	131	↓9	86
27	Mildred	130	↓4	8
28	Susie	130	↑1	>100
29	Fannie	128	↓11	88
30	Lucille	127	↑4	32
31	Clara	120	↓4	33
32	Edna	120	new	17
33	Lillian	120	–	13
34	Bertha	119	↓9	36
35	Helen	118	new	2
36	Ella	117	↑5	63
37	Ida	109	↑1	45
38	Dorothy	108	↑11	4
39	Essie	107	↓7	>100
40	Eva	106	↓4	46
41	Anna	101	↓6	6
42	Lula	100	↓3	94
43	Nellie	100	↓12	54
44	Evelyn	99	↓2	16
45	Irene	96	new	21
46	Julia	96	↓1	44
47	Pearl	95	↓7	48
48	Maggie	91	↓5	>100
49	Lucile	90	↑1	>100
50	Laura	89	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	706	–	3
2	John	569	↑1	1
3	Willie	469	↓1	14
4	William	449	–	2
5	Robert	351	–	5
6	George	287	–	4
7	Henry	218	–	11
8	Charlie	173	–	45
9	Thomas	163	↑1	10
10	Charles	159	↓1	7
11	Frank	139	↑2	8
12	Joe	139	↓1	29
13	Walter	137	↑1	12
14	Joseph	130	↓2	6
15	Albert	98	↑4	15
16	Edward	93	↑6	9
17	Johnnie	87	↑1	90
18	Fred	86	↑2	22
19	Richard	84	↑13	20
20	Arthur	83	↓4	18
21	Eddie	79	↓4	78
22	Roy	78	↑4	31
23	Clarence	77	↓8	23
24	Jack	76	↓3	25
25	Paul	69	↓1	17
26	Ernest	63	↑1	32
27	Jessie	63	↓2	79
28	David	61	–	27
29	Sam	58	↑1	47
30	Leroy	57	↓7	59
31	Samuel	57	↓2	30
32	Howard	53	↑7	28
33	Ralph	52	↓2	24
34	Eugene	51	↑7	43
35	Harry	50	new	13
36	Oscar	47	new	68
37	Homer	46	new	95
38	Andrew	44	↓2	42
39	Lee	44	↓5	67
40	Marvin	43	new	82
41	Jesse	42	↓6	72
42	Lewis	42	↑1	66
43	Lonnie	42	new	>100
44	Otis	42	↓7	>100
45	Ben	41	new	86
46	Clyde	40	new	61
47	Will	40	↓9	>100
48	Grady	39	new	>100
49	Luther	39	↓5	100
50	Raymond	39	new	19

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