Popular baby names in Georgia, 1922

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1922 were Mary for girls (2,614 babies) and James for boys (2,572). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 68,132 babies born in Georgia in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1922

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: 64 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Ossie: 30 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Emmie: 33 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Charlie: 56 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Clyde: 24 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Rosia: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Tommie: 57 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Gussie: 61 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Lizzie: 130 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Ouida: 26 babies, 6× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 40 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Lucious: 19 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Emory: 62 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Hoyt: 39 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lamar: 43 babies, 8× the national rate
Artis: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Grady: 121 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Lucius: 25 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Ulysses: 35 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Willie: 1,181 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	2,614	–	1
2	Annie	1,070	–	30
3	Dorothy	900	–	2
4	Ruby	639	↑2	26
5	Louise	620	↑2	22
6	Mildred	602	↓2	8
7	Margaret	580	↓2	4
8	Willie	566	–	70
9	Frances	549	–	10
10	Martha	533	–	21
11	Ruth	491	↑3	5
12	Helen	489	↑1	3
13	Mattie	457	↓1	>100
14	Elizabeth	440	↓3	9
15	Doris	418	↑4	11
16	Sarah	408	↓1	51
17	Evelyn	406	↓1	13
18	Gladys	367	–	25
19	Virginia	361	↓2	7
20	Lillie	351	–	85
21	Hazel	346	↑6	37
22	Thelma	345	↑2	31
23	Emma	327	↑3	50
24	Ethel	314	↑1	32
25	Lillian	313	↑4	19
26	Alice	276	↑5	15
27	Sara	276	↓6	>100
28	Minnie	268	↑5	91
29	Rosa	266	↑1	>100
30	Edna	265	↓8	29
31	Lois	259	↓3	35
32	Carrie	251	–	>100
33	Marie	251	↓10	14
34	Bessie	248	↑1	81
35	Jessie	242	↑1	87
36	Grace	228	↓2	38
37	Clara	225	↑3	47
38	Nellie	225	↑5	83
39	Catherine	222	↑7	24
40	Bertha	221	↓1	63
41	Julia	218	↓3	60
42	Eva	216	↑8	64
43	Mamie	211	↑6	>100
44	Betty	202	new	6
45	Pauline	200	↓4	36
46	Lucile	193	new	>100
47	Fannie	191	↓10	>100
48	Irene	191	↓1	17
49	Ella	188	↓7	90
50	Lula	188	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	2,572	–	4
2	John	1,724	–	1
3	William	1,660	–	3
4	Robert	1,230	–	2
5	Willie	1,181	–	28
6	George	803	–	6
7	Charles	720	–	5
8	Thomas	559	–	11
9	Henry	537	–	17
10	Charlie	427	↑1	72
11	Joseph	426	↓1	7
12	Walter	406	–	15
13	Edward	394	–	8
14	Jack	345	↑2	18
15	Frank	344	↓1	10
16	Joe	314	↓1	35
17	Albert	275	↑3	20
18	Fred	255	↑6	33
19	Roy	250	↓2	32
20	Clarence	247	↑2	29
21	David	243	↓2	24
22	Ralph	243	↓4	23
23	Arthur	228	↓2	19
24	Harold	227	↓1	13
25	Eddie	221	↑4	>100
26	Paul	219	↓1	14
27	Ernest	199	↑1	37
28	Johnnie	198	↓2	>100
29	Samuel	195	↑4	43
30	Eugene	188	–	25
31	Richard	180	–	9
32	Howard	179	–	26
33	Leroy	161	↓6	55
34	Carl	154	↑2	30
35	Jessie	154	↑4	>100
36	Harry	151	↑1	22
37	Luther	149	new	>100
38	Jesse	144	–	81
39	Benjamin	142	↑1	82
40	Clifford	141	new	63
41	Raymond	141	↓6	16
42	Marvin	140	↓8	56
43	Horace	131	–	>100
44	Lewis	131	–	75
45	Jimmie	130	↑3	>100
46	Herman	129	new	66
47	Earl	128	new	31
48	Oscar	123	new	92
49	Cecil	122	↓7	85
50	Grady	121	↓5	>100

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