Popular baby names in Georgia, 1933

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1933 were Mary for girls (2,114 babies) and James for boys (2,038). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 55,763 babies born in Georgia in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1933

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: 31 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Ossie: 15 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Willene: 20 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Charlie: 34 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Lizzie: 83 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Mattie: 304 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Rubye: 18 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Lucile: 50 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Gussie: 24 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Talmadge: 78 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Lucious: 18 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Felton: 21 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Lamar: 59 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Grady: 106 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Hoyt: 28 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Emory: 42 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Rogers: 22 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Willie: 1,042 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Charlie: 328 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	2,114	–	1
2	Betty	1,556	–	2
3	Annie	792	↑1	37
4	Dorothy	759	↓1	4
5	Barbara	661	–	3
6	Martha	482	–	27
7	Helen	386	↑5	8
8	Ruby	383	↑3	43
9	Margaret	380	↓2	7
10	Frances	360	↓2	18
11	Sarah	334	↑3	58
12	Willie	332	↑1	93
13	Doris	329	↓3	10
14	Mildred	326	↓5	32
15	Mattie	304	↑4	>100
16	Evelyn	292	↑2	30
17	Virginia	290	↓1	15
18	Louise	288	↓1	39
19	Elizabeth	277	↓4	17
20	Joyce	261	–	12
21	Carolyn	254	↑1	40
22	Sara	246	↑2	>100
23	Ruth	226	↓2	13
24	Peggy	209	↑7	36
25	Lillie	208	↓2	>100
26	Emma	197	↑1	75
27	Alice	191	↑1	22
28	Edna	185	↑1	55
29	Hazel	182	↑1	82
30	Gladys	180	↓5	60
31	Rosa	175	↑2	>100
32	Catherine	173	↑3	44
33	Juanita	163	↓1	63
34	Thelma	163	↓8	57
35	Ann	162	↑15	34
36	Christine	161	↑1	>100
37	Minnie	159	↓3	>100
38	Clara	158	↑1	67
39	Bobbie	157	↑10	>100
40	Ethel	157	–	71
41	Patricia	157	↓3	6
42	Carrie	155	↑6	>100
43	Jean	155	↓1	14
44	Nancy	153	new	11
45	Bessie	150	↓2	>100
46	Ella	141	new	>100
47	Joan	140	↓1	5
48	Gloria	138	↓1	31
49	Bernice	135	↓8	83
50	Margie	134	new	95

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	James	2,038	–	2
2	William	1,305	–	4
3	Robert	1,176	–	1
4	John	1,171	–	3
5	Willie	1,042	–	32
6	Charles	977	–	6
7	George	515	–	8
8	Bobby	508	–	26
9	Thomas	449	–	10
10	Eugene	436	↑5	23
11	Billy	432	↓1	20
12	Henry	365	↓1	24
13	Charlie	328	–	95
14	Joseph	322	–	9
15	Edward	306	↑3	11
16	Richard	295	↑1	5
17	Jack	283	↓5	17
18	Walter	275	↓2	21
19	Franklin	274	↑24	33
20	Frank	255	–	16
21	Donald	250	↓2	7
22	Joe	246	↓1	27
23	David	230	–	13
24	Harold	220	↓2	18
25	Eddie	203	↑1	93
26	Fred	185	↑6	34
27	Ralph	184	↓3	29
28	Roy	184	↓1	39
29	Jimmy	181	↑15	64
30	Paul	181	↓2	14
31	Albert	172	↓1	30
32	Arthur	164	↓1	25
33	Clarence	163	↓8	43
34	Johnnie	158	↓5	>100
35	Jimmie	157	↑4	72
36	Johnny	140	–	90
37	Ernest	138	↑1	50
38	Roosevelt	138	new	>100
39	Samuel	138	↓5	61
40	Carl	130	↓5	28
41	Raymond	130	↓4	19
42	Marvin	127	↓2	44
43	Kenneth	124	new	15
44	Howard	123	↓3	36
45	Jerry	120	–	31
46	Curtis	117	↓4	>100
47	Earl	114	↑3	41
48	Leroy	111	↓15	56
49	Harry	109	–	35
50	Lewis	107	new	92

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