Popular baby names in Georgia, 1930

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1930 were Mary for girls (2,172 babies) and James for boys (2,377). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 58,457 babies born in Georgia in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1930

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: 28 babies, 14× the national rate
Charlie: 50 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Gussie: 44 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Elease: 17 babies, 8× the national rate
Willene: 19 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Corine: 48 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Lizzie: 89 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Mozelle: 21 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Pearlie: 55 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 27 babies, 12× the national rate
Lucious: 17 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Emory: 52 babies, 10× the national rate
Lamar: 47 babies, 8× the national rate
Grady: 96 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Rayford: 17 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Dock: 16 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Lucius: 16 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Talmadge: 18 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Willie: 1,136 babies, 6.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	2,172	–	1
2	Betty	1,432	–	2
3	Dorothy	941	–	3
4	Annie	764	–	40
5	Martha	501	–	27
6	Willie	438	–	87
7	Doris	436	↑1	9
8	Ruby	434	↑4	36
9	Frances	431	↑4	16
10	Margaret	413	↑1	5
11	Mildred	408	↓4	21
12	Louise	406	↓2	31
13	Evelyn	384	↑1	19
14	Helen	346	↓5	4
15	Virginia	340	↑3	12
16	Sarah	336	–	70
17	Elizabeth	329	↓2	15
18	Barbara	313	↑9	6
19	Mattie	300	↓2	>100
20	Ruth	283	↓1	10
21	Sara	258	–	>100
22	Hazel	244	↑1	71
23	Gladys	238	↑3	48
24	Thelma	238	↓4	45
25	Catherine	216	↑12	35
26	Lillie	214	↓4	>100
27	Emma	213	↓2	73
28	Alice	208	↓4	20
29	Juanita	205	↑3	57
30	Carolyn	201	↑9	72
31	Rosa	200	↑3	>100
32	Minnie	196	↑6	>100
33	Edna	195	↓4	51
34	Lois	184	↓4	17
35	Bessie	183	–	>100
36	Clara	172	↓5	64
37	Ethel	171	↓9	65
38	Lillian	168	↑4	44
39	Bernice	166	↓3	58
40	Joyce	166	↑5	18
41	Christine	152	↓8	>100
42	Jessie	151	↑5	>100
43	Marie	146	↓2	26
44	Carrie	143	–	>100
45	Ida	142	new	94
46	Julia	140	↑2	90
47	Fannie	134	↓1	>100
48	Ella	131	new	>100
49	Hattie	131	↓6	>100
50	Johnnie	131	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	James	2,377	–	2
2	William	1,523	–	4
3	Robert	1,329	↑1	1
4	John	1,299	↓1	3
5	Willie	1,136	–	29
6	Charles	906	–	6
7	George	643	–	8
8	Thomas	554	–	11
9	Henry	389	–	22
10	Walter	352	↑3	19
11	Billy	350	↑7	20
12	Jack	337	↓2	14
13	Charlie	335	↓2	91
14	Joseph	325	↓2	9
15	Edward	290	↓1	10
16	Richard	282	↑3	5
17	Bobby	271	↑13	41
18	Harold	269	↓3	18
19	Frank	259	↓3	13
20	Joe	246	↓3	27
21	David	245	↓1	15
22	Roy	245	–	33
23	Eugene	228	↑4	21
24	Paul	215	↓3	12
25	Arthur	208	↑6	23
26	Johnnie	207	↑3	>100
27	Clarence	205	↓3	39
28	Albert	204	↓2	24
29	Fred	200	↑3	32
30	Eddie	197	↓2	97
31	Donald	193	↑3	7
32	Ralph	186	↓7	25
33	Ernest	177	↑3	43
34	Raymond	162	↓1	16
35	Howard	158	↑3	31
36	Carl	155	↑8	26
37	Marvin	146	↑4	48
38	Leroy	142	↑5	53
39	Herbert	139	↓16	35
40	Jimmie	138	↓3	86
41	Samuel	134	↓6	55
42	Harry	127	↓3	28
43	Andrew	122	new	62
44	Horace	120	↑2	>100
45	Jessie	120	↑4	>100
46	Jesse	119	new	94
47	Curtis	118	↓5	>100
48	Earl	118	new	38
49	Johnny	116	↓9	>100
50	Lewis	110	–	87

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