Popular baby names in Georgia, 1919

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1919 were Mary for girls (2,386 babies) and James for boys (2,499). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 68,162 babies born in Georgia in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1919

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: 67 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Ossie: 34 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Charlie: 57 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Clyde: 31 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Claudie: 23 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Lizzie: 170 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Essie: 198 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mozell: 21 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Leila: 72 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Gussie: 69 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 34 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Lucious: 23 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Hoyt: 46 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Lamar: 45 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Artis: 17 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Lucius: 37 babies, 8.2× the national rate
General: 22 babies, 7× the national rate
Ulysses: 35 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Rogers: 20 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Grady: 121 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	2,386	–	1
2	Annie	1,082	–	35
3	Ruby	694	–	24
4	Willie	647	–	61
5	Dorothy	614	↑2	3
6	Louise	604	–	20
7	Frances	553	↑1	9
8	Mildred	545	↑4	6
9	Margaret	542	–	4
10	Ruth	500	↓5	5
11	Mattie	488	↓1	95
12	Elizabeth	486	↑1	8
13	Martha	448	↓2	25
14	Sarah	440	↑1	46
15	Helen	428	↓1	2
16	Evelyn	388	↑3	11
17	Lillie	369	↓1	81
18	Thelma	364	↑2	31
19	Ethel	357	↓1	28
20	Gladys	347	↓3	21
21	Emma	316	↑3	45
22	Edna	312	–	22
23	Bessie	311	↑8	59
24	Alice	309	↑5	13
25	Virginia	303	↑5	7
26	Sara	300	↓5	>100
27	Rosa	297	↑5	>100
28	Carrie	286	↑6	>100
29	Minnie	284	↑4	80
30	Marie	281	↓7	12
31	Lillian	278	↓4	17
32	Doris	272	↑8	18
33	Jessie	262	↓8	75
34	Hazel	257	↑1	32
35	Grace	256	↓9	34
36	Mamie	251	↑2	>100
37	Fannie	245	↑5	>100
38	Lois	241	↓10	40
39	Lucille	233	new	27
40	Eva	230	↑5	55
41	Beatrice	223	↑6	41
42	Ida	223	↑8	57
43	Nellie	220	↓4	69
44	Lucile	219	↓1	>100
45	Pauline	217	new	36
46	Julia	214	↓9	48
47	Bertha	213	↓11	52
48	Hattie	212	↑1	>100
49	Irene	212	↓5	16
50	Clara	206	↓2	43

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	James	2,499	–	3
2	John	1,844	–	1
3	William	1,638	–	2
4	Willie	1,218	–	23
5	Robert	1,110	–	4
6	George	809	–	6
7	Thomas	621	↑1	10
8	Charles	582	↓1	5
9	Henry	560	–	16
10	Charlie	503	↑1	66
11	Joseph	425	↓1	7
12	Walter	401	↑1	11
13	Frank	381	↓1	9
14	Edward	313	↑1	8
15	Albert	306	↑2	18
16	Joe	296	↓2	35
17	Roy	276	↑3	32
18	Jack	274	↓2	21
19	Arthur	265	↑3	19
20	Fred	251	↓2	30
21	Johnnie	237	↑5	95
22	Clarence	225	↑2	25
23	Ralph	219	↓4	22
24	Eddie	216	↑1	99
25	David	207	↓4	27
26	Samuel	204	↑4	43
27	Leroy	193	↑5	55
28	Paul	192	↓5	15
29	Ernest	190	↓2	36
30	Richard	190	↓2	12
31	Harold	178	↑2	13
32	Eugene	167	↑3	33
33	Howard	164	↑3	24
34	Sam	153	↑3	75
35	Carl	151	↑5	29
36	Hugh	148	↑7	>100
37	Harry	147	↓6	20
38	Jesse	146	↓4	77
39	Lewis	143	–	74
40	Jessie	142	↑5	>100
41	Herbert	140	↑1	40
42	Oscar	137	↓1	88
43	Raymond	135	↓5	14
44	Jimmie	134	↑6	>100
45	Marvin	129	new	63
46	Clifford	128	–	60
47	Luther	126	new	>100
48	Grady	121	new	>100
49	Woodrow	120	↓20	91
50	Herman	118	new	61

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