Popular baby names in Georgia, 1915

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1915 were Mary for girls (1,683 babies) and James for boys (1,825). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 53,661 babies born in Georgia in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1915

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

Girls

Montine: 15 babies, 24.2× the national rate
Clifford: 15 babies, 17× the national rate
Myrtice: 46 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Ossie: 23 babies, 11× the national rate
Claudie: 28 babies, 10× the national rate
Charlie: 34 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Mozell: 25 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Lilla: 15 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Emmie: 20 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Clyde: 27 babies, 7.8× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 35 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Lucious: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Hoyt: 31 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Emory: 59 babies, 9× the national rate
Lucius: 29 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Turner: 16 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Talmadge: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Grady: 105 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Lamar: 26 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Rogers: 17 babies, 7.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	1,683	–	1
2	Annie	862	–	36
3	Ruby	542	–	24
4	Willie	512	–	72
5	Louise	443	–	18
6	Mattie	439	–	91
7	Ruth	420	–	5
8	Frances	397	↑5	9
9	Mildred	392	–	6
10	Elizabeth	354	↓2	8
11	Margaret	354	↑3	4
12	Martha	346	↑6	25
13	Dorothy	328	↓1	3
14	Lillie	311	↓3	84
15	Sarah	311	↓5	51
16	Evelyn	284	↑11	10
17	Gladys	282	↓2	21
18	Emma	278	↑2	40
19	Ethel	260	↓2	23
20	Thelma	256	↓1	30
21	Jessie	253	↑1	66
22	Minnie	248	↑1	68
23	Edna	246	↑2	20
24	Rosa	242	↓3	>100
25	Helen	241	↑5	2
26	Bessie	236	↓10	57
27	Alice	228	↑5	13
28	Bertha	219	↑12	46
29	Sara	216	↑21	>100
30	Carrie	212	↓6	>100
31	Lillian	211	↓3	15
32	Marie	208	↓6	11
33	Hazel	205	new	26
34	Lois	204	↓1	47
35	Grace	201	↑2	27
36	Lucille	197	–	29
37	Virginia	196	↑4	12
38	Mamie	194	↑5	>100
39	Pauline	193	new	32
40	Fannie	188	↓11	>100
41	Clara	186	↑7	38
42	Beatrice	184	↓7	37
43	Ida	184	new	54
44	Hattie	183	↓6	>100
45	Julia	181	↓14	44
46	Nellie	179	↑3	63
47	Ella	178	↓5	75
48	Eva	175	↓14	55
49	Lucile	175	↓10	>100
50	Essie	173	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	James	1,825	–	3
2	John	1,471	–	1
3	William	1,248	–	2
4	Willie	959	–	30
5	Robert	896	–	4
6	George	638	–	6
7	Henry	495	–	14
8	Thomas	489	–	10
9	Charles	482	–	7
10	Charlie	375	–	75
11	Joseph	329	–	5
12	Walter	308	–	11
13	Frank	290	–	9
14	Joe	254	–	38
15	Edward	244	↑2	8
16	Albert	231	↓1	17
17	Fred	223	↑4	26
18	Arthur	215	–	18
19	Jack	215	↓3	27
20	Clarence	213	↓1	24
21	Roy	212	↓1	32
22	Ralph	204	–	21
23	Paul	180	↑8	13
24	David	176	–	31
25	Richard	165	↑3	15
26	Johnnie	158	↑1	>100
27	Ernest	150	↓2	35
28	Leroy	149	↓5	66
29	Eddie	148	↓3	>100
30	Eugene	145	–	41
31	Harry	145	↑2	19
32	Samuel	139	↓3	39
33	Hugh	137	↑3	>100
34	Sam	133	↑1	68
35	Jesse	132	↑6	77
36	Howard	128	↓2	25
37	Jessie	123	↑1	>100
38	Raymond	123	↑4	16
39	Clifford	121	new	61
40	Herbert	119	↑7	40
41	Harold	117	↑9	12
42	Otis	114	↑4	>100
43	Horace	113	new	>100
44	Lewis	113	↓5	70
45	Andrew	112	↓1	46
46	Carl	107	↓3	22
47	Grady	105	new	>100
48	Woodrow	103	↓16	83
49	Herman	102	↓4	56
50	Oscar	101	↓2	88

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