Popular baby names in Georgia, 1918

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1918 were Mary for girls (2,203 babies) and James for boys (2,281). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 63,564 babies born in Georgia in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1918

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: 77 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Ossie: 28 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Pinkie: 21 babies, 9× the national rate
Charlie: 46 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Clyde: 28 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Claudie: 28 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Lizzie: 159 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Lilla: 18 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Tommie: 53 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Mozell: 21 babies, 6.7× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 23 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Lucious: 21 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Hoyt: 42 babies, 9× the national rate
Early: 17 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Dorsey: 23 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Lucius: 28 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Lamar: 32 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Grady: 112 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Bobbie: 15 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Prince: 17 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	2,203	–	1
2	Annie	1,017	–	36
3	Ruby	653	–	27
4	Willie	572	–	70
5	Ruth	532	↑1	5
6	Louise	522	↑1	18
7	Dorothy	505	↑5	3
8	Frances	479	↓3	8
9	Margaret	469	↑2	4
10	Mattie	437	↓2	100
11	Martha	432	↓1	25
12	Mildred	429	↓3	6
13	Elizabeth	417	–	9
14	Helen	406	↑3	2
15	Sarah	371	↓1	52
16	Lillie	355	↓1	89
17	Gladys	354	↑1	22
18	Ethel	338	↑4	28
19	Evelyn	338	↓3	11
20	Thelma	338	–	32
21	Sara	312	↑4	>100
22	Edna	292	↓3	23
23	Marie	292	↑3	12
24	Emma	282	↑3	46
25	Jessie	282	↑6	75
26	Grace	278	↑7	31
27	Lillian	273	↓6	15
28	Lois	272	↑1	42
29	Alice	267	↑3	13
30	Virginia	263	–	7
31	Bessie	258	↓3	61
32	Rosa	252	↓9	>100
33	Minnie	247	↓9	88
34	Carrie	242	↑1	>100
35	Hazel	231	↑4	33
36	Bertha	230	↑14	51
37	Julia	229	↑6	48
38	Mamie	226	–	>100
39	Nellie	218	↑7	65
40	Doris	211	↑9	19
41	Susie	211	↑6	>100
42	Fannie	209	↓2	>100
43	Lucile	209	↓6	>100
44	Irene	208	↑4	16
45	Eva	207	↓9	55
46	Ella	206	↓1	84
47	Beatrice	203	new	40
48	Clara	203	↓6	43
49	Hattie	203	new	>100
50	Ida	201	↓9	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	2,281	–	3
2	John	1,701	–	1
3	William	1,580	–	2
4	Willie	1,116	–	29
5	Robert	1,086	–	4
6	George	762	–	6
7	Charles	579	↑2	5
8	Thomas	547	↓1	10
9	Henry	515	↓1	16
10	Joseph	468	↑1	7
11	Charlie	447	↓1	70
12	Frank	372	↑1	9
13	Walter	347	↓1	11
14	Joe	326	↑1	34
15	Edward	310	↓1	8
16	Jack	280	↑1	21
17	Albert	252	↓1	19
18	Fred	246	↑2	33
19	Ralph	229	↑5	22
20	Roy	223	↓2	32
21	David	216	↑2	28
22	Arthur	213	↑5	17
23	Paul	212	↓1	14
24	Clarence	210	↓5	23
25	Eddie	202	↑4	>100
26	Johnnie	194	–	>100
27	Ernest	191	↓6	37
28	Richard	185	–	12
29	Woodrow	183	↑11	58
30	Samuel	176	–	43
31	Harry	160	↑4	20
32	Leroy	158	↓7	57
33	Harold	156	new	13
34	Jesse	155	↑2	78
35	Eugene	151	↓4	35
36	Howard	151	↓2	26
37	Sam	149	↑2	75
38	Raymond	148	new	15
39	Lewis	146	↓1	74
40	Carl	144	↓3	25
41	Oscar	138	–	87
42	Herbert	137	↑5	40
43	Hugh	132	↓10	>100
44	Andrew	130	–	46
45	Jessie	129	↓13	>100
46	Clifford	123	↑2	60
47	Hubert	123	new	>100
48	Homer	121	new	100
49	Horace	119	↓7	>100
50	Jimmie	119	new	>100

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