Popular baby names in Georgia, 1912

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1912 were Mary for girls (1,170 babies) and James for boys (1,147). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 34,428 babies born in Georgia in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1912

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: 32 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Emmie: 18 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Charlie: 22 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Ludie: 17 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Leila: 47 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Florine: 27 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Tommie: 27 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Gussie: 54 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Johnie: 16 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Essie: 136 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Lucius: 30 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Obie: 17 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Ulysses: 19 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Tommie: 42 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Emory: 24 babies, 6× the national rate
Johnnie: 138 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Isiah: 15 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Dock: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Cleveland: 28 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Willie: 619 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	1,170	–	1
2	Annie	633	–	27
3	Willie	402	–	61
4	Ruby	346	–	23
5	Mattie	326	–	70
6	Louise	320	–	17
7	Ruth	299	–	5
8	Lillie	295	–	67
9	Elizabeth	274	↑1	8
10	Sarah	235	↑10	41
11	Ethel	226	↓2	18
12	Mildred	226	↑15	6
13	Emma	211	↑1	35
14	Frances	206	↓1	9
15	Bessie	205	↓4	43
16	Margaret	202	↑2	4
17	Rosa	195	↑2	94
18	Gladys	194	↑4	19
19	Minnie	183	↓7	60
20	Carrie	181	↑1	82
21	Fannie	180	↑8	87
22	Mamie	174	↓7	95
23	Martha	173	↓7	29
24	Edna	171	↑8	16
25	Dorothy	168	↑13	3
26	Thelma	166	↓2	26
27	Evelyn	163	↑17	13
28	Lillian	163	↑5	14
29	Jessie	162	↓4	65
30	Hattie	161	↓4	90
31	Marie	160	↓14	10
32	Helen	156	↑3	2
33	Julia	155	↑13	44
34	Clara	152	↓3	34
35	Lucille	150	↓5	32
36	Ida	145	↑1	45
37	Daisy	142	new	>100
38	Alice	141	↓15	11
39	Lois	138	new	63
40	Essie	136	↓1	>100
41	Grace	135	new	24
42	Irene	135	↑3	22
43	Bertha	134	↓9	36
44	Lucile	131	↑5	>100
45	Alma	128	new	62
46	Beatrice	128	new	37
47	Nellie	127	↓4	59
48	Pauline	127	new	38
49	Lula	126	↓7	>100
50	Ella	125	↓14	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	1,147	–	3
2	John	883	–	1
3	William	792	↑1	2
4	Willie	619	↓1	22
5	Robert	516	–	4
6	George	379	–	6
7	Henry	312	–	12
8	Charles	287	↑2	7
9	Charlie	251	↓1	57
10	Thomas	239	↓1	10
11	Walter	225	↑2	11
12	Joseph	201	↑2	5
13	Frank	191	↓2	9
14	Joe	181	↓2	36
15	Albert	166	–	17
16	Clarence	160	↑7	21
17	Edward	144	↓1	8
18	Johnnie	138	↓1	>100
19	Fred	134	↓1	26
20	Jack	128	↑4	28
21	Arthur	119	↓1	15
22	Eddie	114	↓1	>100
23	Roy	113	↓1	31
24	Samuel	112	↑7	30
25	Paul	111	–	14
26	Ernest	105	–	32
27	Richard	105	↓8	19
28	Eugene	98	↑6	41
29	Ralph	96	↑4	23
30	Andrew	94	↑8	44
31	Leroy	93	↓1	66
32	Harry	90	↑3	16
33	Howard	88	↓1	25
34	Jesse	88	↑7	74
35	Oscar	87	↑1	73
36	Sam	82	↓7	63
37	David	81	↓9	29
38	Benjamin	77	new	67
39	Harold	74	new	13
40	Clifford	73	new	62
41	Clyde	73	↑5	65
42	Jessie	72	↓15	>100
43	Otis	72	↑1	>100
44	Herbert	69	new	39
45	Horace	69	new	>100
46	Woodrow	69	new	46
47	Raymond	68	↑3	18
48	Lewis	67	↓6	68
49	Louis	64	new	20
50	Carl	59	new	24

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