Popular baby names in Georgia, 1913

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1913 were Mary for girls (1,223 babies) and James for boys (1,248). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 37,083 babies born in Georgia in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1913

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: 52 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Ossie: 25 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Florrie: 16 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Charlie: 17 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Tommie: 28 babies, 6× the national rate
Ellie: 16 babies, 6× the national rate
Essie: 128 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mattie: 348 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Lizzie: 98 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Leila: 41 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Boys

Lamar: 22 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Hoyt: 20 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Lucius: 21 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Ulysses: 20 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Emory: 29 babies, 6× the national rate
Anderson: 17 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mose: 17 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Willie: 686 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Rufus: 73 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Grady: 62 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	1,223	–	1
2	Annie	632	–	30
3	Ruby	399	↑1	23
4	Willie	378	↓1	65
5	Louise	359	↑1	17
6	Mattie	348	↓1	75
7	Elizabeth	294	↑2	8
8	Ruth	284	↓1	5
9	Mildred	264	↑3	6
10	Frances	247	↑4	9
11	Sarah	240	↓1	43
12	Lillie	226	↓4	71
13	Ethel	219	↓2	20
14	Martha	209	↑9	28
15	Emma	206	↓2	38
16	Bessie	205	↓1	47
17	Gladys	200	↑1	19
18	Thelma	200	↑8	26
19	Margaret	199	↓3	4
20	Evelyn	192	↑7	12
21	Marie	192	↑10	10
22	Rosa	185	↓5	>100
23	Dorothy	184	↑2	3
24	Minnie	176	↓5	63
25	Alice	174	↑13	11
26	Jessie	174	↑3	61
27	Fannie	170	↓6	91
28	Helen	170	↑4	2
29	Lillian	162	↓1	16
30	Carrie	161	↓10	90
31	Mamie	160	↓9	>100
32	Nellie	157	↑15	58
33	Hattie	154	↓3	96
34	Edna	153	↓10	18
35	Clara	150	↓1	36
36	Lucille	150	↓1	31
37	Julia	147	↓4	42
38	Irene	141	↑4	21
39	Susie	141	new	>100
40	Bertha	139	↑3	39
41	Ella	139	↑9	70
42	Ida	139	↓6	49
43	Lula	134	↑6	>100
44	Grace	131	↓3	25
45	Lois	130	↓6	59
46	Essie	128	↓6	>100
47	Eva	127	new	50
48	Alma	126	↓3	64
49	Anna	126	new	7
50	Beatrice	121	↓4	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	James	1,248	–	3
2	John	1,042	–	1
3	William	847	–	2
4	Willie	686	–	24
5	Robert	596	–	4
6	George	497	–	6
7	Henry	341	–	12
8	Charles	334	–	7
9	Thomas	323	↑1	10
10	Charlie	275	↓1	62
11	Joseph	225	↑1	5
12	Frank	224	↑1	9
13	Walter	216	↓2	11
14	Albert	184	↑1	16
15	Edward	183	↑2	8
16	Joe	174	↓2	37
17	Clarence	164	↓1	21
18	Ralph	151	↑11	22
19	Arthur	147	↑2	17
20	Jack	146	–	28
21	Paul	135	↑4	14
22	Eddie	134	–	>100
23	Roy	129	–	32
24	Fred	128	↓5	27
25	Ernest	115	↑1	34
26	Leroy	115	↑5	63
27	Johnnie	110	↓9	>100
28	Richard	109	↓1	19
29	David	106	↑8	29
30	Harry	106	↑2	15
31	Harold	98	↑8	13
32	Lewis	96	↑16	72
33	Sam	94	↑3	65
34	Herbert	93	↑10	39
35	Woodrow	92	↑11	44
36	Eugene	89	↓8	43
37	Carl	88	↑13	23
38	Jesse	87	↓4	79
39	Samuel	87	↓15	36
40	Jessie	82	↑2	>100
41	Howard	78	↓8	26
42	Raymond	78	↑5	18
43	Homer	77	new	96
44	Otis	77	↓1	>100
45	Lee	76	new	78
46	Andrew	75	↓16	47
47	Horace	75	↓2	>100
48	Clyde	73	↓7	64
49	Oscar	73	↓14	76
50	Rufus	73	new	>100

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