Popular baby names in Georgia, 1921

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1921 were Mary for girls (2,474 babies) and James for boys (2,619). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 67,727 babies born in Georgia in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1921

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: 23 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Myrtice: 67 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Florrie: 19 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Ossie: 25 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Charlie: 34 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Lizzie: 139 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Corene: 19 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Gussie: 58 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Mattie: 477 babies, 6× the national rate
Leila: 61 babies, 6× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 32 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Lucious: 16 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Emory: 66 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Lucius: 31 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Lamar: 39 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Grady: 134 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Talmadge: 23 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Elisha: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Ulysses: 37 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Hoyt: 28 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	2,474	–	1
2	Annie	1,005	–	36
3	Dorothy	882	–	2
4	Mildred	666	↑4	7
5	Margaret	616	↑2	4
6	Ruby	610	↓2	26
7	Louise	607	↓1	22
8	Willie	554	↓3	74
9	Frances	537	–	9
10	Martha	523	↑2	21
11	Elizabeth	512	↓1	10
12	Mattie	477	↑1	>100
13	Helen	469	↑1	3
14	Ruth	462	↓3	5
15	Sarah	449	–	54
16	Evelyn	394	–	12
17	Virginia	394	↑1	6
18	Gladys	376	↓1	24
19	Doris	372	↑2	13
20	Lillie	320	↓1	94
21	Sara	317	↑2	>100
22	Edna	313	↓2	27
23	Marie	307	↑8	14
24	Thelma	302	↑2	30
25	Ethel	300	–	32
26	Emma	296	↑2	52
27	Hazel	296	↑2	34
28	Lois	285	↓1	38
29	Lillian	275	↑1	19
30	Rosa	266	↓6	>100
31	Alice	251	↑3	15
32	Carrie	251	↑5	>100
33	Minnie	250	–	96
34	Grace	241	↓2	35
35	Bessie	235	↓13	75
36	Jessie	234	↓1	91
37	Fannie	230	↓1	>100
38	Julia	226	↑7	58
39	Bertha	216	↑3	59
40	Clara	211	↑3	45
41	Pauline	210	↑6	37
42	Ella	207	↑2	89
43	Nellie	198	↓5	80
44	Hattie	197	new	>100
45	Ida	197	↓5	67
46	Catherine	196	↑3	23
47	Irene	192	↓1	18
48	Lucille	191	↑2	31
49	Mamie	190	↓8	>100
50	Eva	186	↓11	63

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	James	2,619	–	4
2	John	1,802	–	1
3	William	1,705	–	3
4	Robert	1,215	–	2
5	Willie	1,103	–	34
6	George	799	–	6
7	Charles	723	↑1	5
8	Thomas	666	↓1	11
9	Henry	602	–	17
10	Joseph	483	↑1	7
11	Charlie	455	↓1	76
12	Walter	377	–	15
13	Edward	346	↑1	8
14	Frank	332	↓1	9
15	Joe	319	–	36
16	Jack	298	↑1	18
17	Roy	280	↑2	32
18	Ralph	271	–	23
19	David	253	↑5	25
20	Albert	248	↓4	20
21	Arthur	245	↓1	19
22	Clarence	239	↑1	28
23	Harold	227	↑7	12
24	Fred	219	↓3	33
25	Paul	214	↓3	14
26	Johnnie	212	–	>100
27	Leroy	209	↑6	55
28	Ernest	207	↑1	38
29	Eddie	202	↓2	>100
30	Eugene	202	↑2	26
31	Richard	201	↓3	10
32	Howard	179	↓1	27
33	Samuel	178	↓8	44
34	Marvin	176	↑11	59
35	Raymond	165	↓1	16
36	Carl	157	↑1	30
37	Harry	153	↓2	21
38	Jesse	153	↑3	77
39	Jessie	146	↓3	>100
40	Benjamin	144	↑8	82
41	Andrew	141	↑6	51
42	Cecil	139	↑7	79
43	Horace	139	↑1	>100
44	Lewis	139	↓5	71
45	Grady	134	new	>100
46	Warren	133	new	24
47	Sam	125	↓4	85
48	Jimmie	124	new	>100
49	Lee	123	new	86
50	Herbert	122	↓8	42

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