Popular baby names in Georgia, 1923

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1923 were Mary for girls (2,403 babies) and James for boys (2,413). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 62,683 babies born in Georgia in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1923

Names given at least 15 times in Georgia that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Emmie: 33 babies, 17× the national rate
Myrtice: 53 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Ossie: 28 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Lilla: 22 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Clyde: 21 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Charlie: 42 babies, 8× the national rate
Myrtis: 31 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Gussie: 54 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Mozelle: 41 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Lizzie: 119 babies, 6.7× the national rate

Boys

Lucious: 29 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Felton: 27 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Lucius: 28 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Grady: 141 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Dock: 26 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Howell: 17 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Lamar: 43 babies, 8× the national rate
Emory: 47 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Major: 22 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Willie: 1,135 babies, 6.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	2,403	–	1
2	Annie	945	–	34
3	Dorothy	901	–	2
4	Willie	579	↑4	67
5	Mildred	557	↑1	8
6	Louise	547	↓1	22
7	Margaret	523	–	4
8	Ruby	523	↓4	25
9	Frances	496	–	10
10	Martha	450	–	21
11	Helen	443	↑1	3
12	Elizabeth	439	↑2	9
13	Mattie	430	–	>100
14	Sarah	424	↑2	54
15	Doris	423	–	11
16	Ruth	421	↓5	6
17	Evelyn	380	–	12
18	Virginia	379	↑1	7
19	Thelma	316	↑3	31
20	Lillian	315	↑5	20
21	Gladys	309	↓3	29
22	Sara	305	↑5	>100
23	Lillie	290	↓3	91
24	Hazel	288	↓3	40
25	Edna	279	↑5	32
26	Alice	275	–	15
27	Ethel	272	↓3	38
28	Betty	270	↑16	5
29	Emma	258	↓6	53
30	Marie	245	↑3	14
31	Minnie	238	↓3	99
32	Rosa	236	↓3	>100
33	Bessie	235	↑1	81
34	Clara	235	↑3	49
35	Carrie	226	↓3	>100
36	Lois	221	↓5	27
37	Grace	216	↓1	39
38	Mamie	207	↑5	>100
39	Julia	205	↑2	62
40	Pauline	204	↑5	37
41	Bertha	203	↓1	64
42	Jessie	202	↓7	94
43	Hattie	199	new	>100
44	Ida	198	new	68
45	Catherine	193	↓6	24
46	Eva	193	↓4	66
47	Nellie	192	↓9	88
48	Fannie	189	↓1	>100
49	Juanita	187	new	51
50	Ella	171	↓1	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	James	2,413	–	4
2	William	1,583	↑1	3
3	John	1,531	↓1	1
4	Robert	1,168	–	2
5	Willie	1,135	–	30
6	George	759	–	6
7	Charles	695	–	5
8	Henry	560	↑1	18
9	Thomas	538	↓1	12
10	Joseph	415	↑1	7
11	Charlie	369	↓1	79
12	Walter	342	–	16
13	Jack	324	↑1	17
14	Edward	315	↓1	8
15	Frank	306	–	11
16	Roy	256	↑3	32
17	Joe	252	↓1	35
18	Ralph	234	↑4	23
19	Albert	231	↓2	20
20	Fred	227	↓2	33
21	Arthur	222	↑2	19
22	Clarence	215	↓2	29
23	Harold	215	↑1	13
24	David	205	↓3	24
25	Eddie	199	–	>100
26	Paul	199	–	14
27	Richard	193	↑4	9
28	Eugene	189	↑2	25
29	Ernest	186	↓2	38
30	Samuel	180	↓1	45
31	Johnnie	176	↓3	>100
32	Clifford	162	↑8	65
33	Howard	159	↓1	26
34	Horace	157	↑9	>100
35	Leroy	152	↓2	55
36	Lewis	144	↑8	74
37	Harry	143	↓1	22
38	Grady	141	↑12	>100
39	Raymond	138	↑2	15
40	Benjamin	132	↓1	86
41	Jessie	131	↓6	>100
42	Jesse	123	↓4	83
43	Carl	119	↓9	28
44	Marvin	112	↓2	51
45	Earl	110	↑2	31
46	Cecil	109	↑3	87
47	Jimmie	109	↓2	>100
48	Herbert	105	new	40
49	Andrew	103	new	53
50	Otis	103	new	>100

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