Popular baby names in Georgia, 1920

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1920 were Mary for girls (2,538 babies) and James for boys (2,750). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 69,426 babies born in Georgia in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1920

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: 59 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Ossie: 29 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Clyde: 26 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Elease: 19 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Emmie: 19 babies, 8× the national rate
Evie: 29 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Tommie: 55 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Charlie: 46 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Pinkie: 22 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Lizzie: 152 babies, 6.9× the national rate

Boys

Lucious: 17 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Hoyt: 37 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Dock: 28 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Talmadge: 23 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Felton: 17 babies, 7× the national rate
Grady: 122 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Lucius: 28 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Emory: 61 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lamar: 35 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Howell: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	2,538	–	1
2	Annie	1,048	–	35
3	Dorothy	769	↑2	2
4	Ruby	667	↓1	26
5	Willie	623	↓1	74
6	Louise	616	–	19
7	Margaret	601	↑2	4
8	Mildred	594	–	6
9	Frances	590	↓2	9
10	Elizabeth	523	↑2	8
11	Ruth	519	↓1	5
12	Martha	501	↑1	23
13	Mattie	479	↓2	96
14	Helen	442	↑1	3
15	Sarah	428	↓1	50
16	Evelyn	411	–	12
17	Gladys	398	↑3	22
18	Virginia	338	↑7	7
19	Lillie	320	↓2	90
20	Edna	318	↑2	27
21	Doris	316	↑11	14
22	Bessie	314	↑1	71
23	Sara	313	↑3	>100
24	Rosa	298	↑3	>100
25	Ethel	296	↓6	30
26	Thelma	295	↓8	31
27	Lois	291	↑11	38
28	Emma	287	↓7	46
29	Hazel	287	↑5	34
30	Lillian	283	↑1	18
31	Marie	278	↓1	13
32	Grace	274	↑3	37
33	Minnie	269	↓4	87
34	Alice	265	↓10	15
35	Jessie	249	↓2	84
36	Fannie	247	↑1	>100
37	Carrie	244	↓9	>100
38	Nellie	244	↑5	76
39	Eva	231	↑1	58
40	Ida	227	↑2	66
41	Mamie	219	↓5	>100
42	Bertha	218	↑5	57
43	Clara	218	↑7	44
44	Ella	218	new	88
45	Julia	218	↑1	55
46	Irene	215	↑3	17
47	Pauline	208	↓2	36
48	Lucile	204	↓4	>100
49	Catherine	203	new	21
50	Lucille	200	↓11	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	James	2,750	–	4
2	John	1,819	–	1
3	William	1,743	–	2
4	Robert	1,290	↑1	3
5	Willie	1,185	↓1	29
6	George	866	–	6
7	Thomas	676	–	11
8	Charles	675	–	5
9	Henry	536	–	17
10	Charlie	478	–	70
11	Joseph	460	–	7
12	Walter	400	–	13
13	Frank	382	–	9
14	Edward	343	–	8
15	Joe	317	↑1	35
16	Albert	279	↓1	19
17	Jack	278	↑1	20
18	Ralph	272	↑5	22
19	Roy	267	↓2	32
20	Arthur	258	↓1	18
21	Fred	257	↓1	33
22	Paul	253	↑6	14
23	Clarence	249	↓1	26
24	David	239	↑1	25
25	Samuel	213	↑1	44
26	Johnnie	209	↓5	99
27	Eddie	202	↓3	>100
28	Richard	198	↑2	10
29	Ernest	188	–	37
30	Harold	184	↑1	12
31	Howard	183	↑2	24
32	Eugene	182	–	30
33	Leroy	180	↓6	56
34	Raymond	167	↑9	15
35	Harry	165	↑2	21
36	Jessie	153	↑4	>100
37	Carl	151	↓2	27
38	Clyde	145	new	68
39	Lewis	142	–	72
40	Clifford	141	↑6	59
41	Jesse	141	↓3	79
42	Herbert	140	↓1	41
43	Sam	139	↓9	84
44	Horace	135	new	>100
45	Marvin	135	–	62
46	Otis	133	new	>100
47	Andrew	131	new	49
48	Benjamin	131	new	83
49	Cecil	130	new	77
50	Herman	130	–	66

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