Popular baby names in Georgia, 1914

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1914 were Mary for girls (1,471 babies) and James for boys (1,556). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 46,038 babies born in Georgia in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1914

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: 47 babies, 17× the national rate
Ossie: 19 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Queenie: 15 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Mozell: 18 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Charlie: 27 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Clyde: 25 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Emmie: 16 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Essie: 157 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Tommie: 34 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Boys

Lucious: 30 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Felton: 19 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Hoyt: 24 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Dorsey: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Dock: 24 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Lucius: 26 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Lamar: 23 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Theo: 18 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Isiah: 21 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Emory: 38 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	1,471	–	1
2	Annie	738	–	33
3	Ruby	491	–	24
4	Willie	480	–	66
5	Louise	398	–	17
6	Mattie	382	–	78
7	Ruth	358	↑1	5
8	Elizabeth	337	↓1	8
9	Mildred	295	–	7
10	Sarah	293	↑1	47
11	Lillie	285	↑1	74
12	Dorothy	270	↑11	3
13	Frances	269	↓3	9
14	Margaret	266	↑5	4
15	Gladys	254	↑2	20
16	Bessie	249	–	55
17	Ethel	248	↓4	21
18	Martha	244	↓4	27
19	Thelma	238	↓1	26
20	Emma	235	↓5	39
21	Rosa	231	↑1	>100
22	Jessie	225	↑4	64
23	Minnie	225	↑1	67
24	Carrie	223	↑6	91
25	Edna	223	↑9	19
26	Marie	223	↓5	10
27	Evelyn	218	↓7	11
28	Lillian	209	↑1	16
29	Fannie	208	↓2	99
30	Helen	207	↓2	2
31	Julia	201	↑6	42
32	Alice	200	↓7	12
33	Lois	199	↑12	51
34	Eva	192	↑13	52
35	Beatrice	186	↑15	38
36	Lucille	181	–	30
37	Grace	177	↑7	25
38	Hattie	174	↓5	97
39	Lucile	173	new	>100
40	Bertha	171	–	41
41	Virginia	164	new	14
42	Ella	161	↓1	72
43	Mamie	161	↓12	>100
44	Susie	161	↓5	>100
45	Lula	160	↓2	>100
46	Essie	157	–	>100
47	Irene	157	↓9	22
48	Clara	156	↓13	37
49	Nellie	156	↓17	61
50	Sara	156	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	James	1,556	–	3
2	John	1,259	–	1
3	William	1,064	–	2
4	Willie	840	–	25
5	Robert	798	–	4
6	George	603	–	6
7	Henry	438	–	12
8	Thomas	395	↑1	11
9	Charles	392	↓1	7
10	Charlie	334	–	65
11	Joseph	328	–	5
12	Walter	298	↑1	10
13	Frank	275	↓1	9
14	Joe	252	↑2	34
15	Albert	233	↓1	15
16	Jack	195	↑4	27
17	Edward	194	↓2	8
18	Arthur	187	↑1	18
19	Clarence	186	↓2	22
20	Roy	170	↑3	32
21	Fred	167	↑3	28
22	Ralph	167	↓4	21
23	Leroy	162	↑3	60
24	David	155	↑5	29
25	Ernest	147	–	38
26	Eddie	143	↓4	>100
27	Johnnie	143	–	>100
28	Richard	136	–	17
29	Samuel	135	↑10	36
30	Eugene	127	↑6	43
31	Paul	127	↓10	13
32	Woodrow	117	↑3	71
33	Harry	114	↓3	19
34	Howard	105	↑7	26
35	Sam	105	↓2	67
36	Hugh	102	new	>100
37	Homer	101	↑6	>100
38	Jessie	99	↑2	>100
39	Lewis	99	↓7	72
40	Louis	96	new	20
41	Jesse	95	↓3	82
42	Raymond	94	–	16
43	Carl	93	↓6	24
44	Andrew	90	↑2	44
45	Herman	90	new	51
46	Otis	90	↓2	>100
47	Herbert	89	↓13	42
48	Oscar	88	↑1	77
49	Clyde	86	↓1	63
50	Harold	83	↓19	14

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