Popular baby names in Georgia, 1935

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1935 were Mary for girls (2,086 babies) and James for boys (2,172). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 58,879 babies born in Georgia in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1935

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: 37 babies, 21× the national rate
Wylene: 18 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Ouida: 19 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Charlie: 27 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Gussie: 25 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Lizzie: 81 babies, 7× the national rate
Willene: 16 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Tommie: 59 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Mattie: 254 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Talmadge: 33 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Howell: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Emory: 45 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Felton: 23 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Lamar: 54 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Lucius: 17 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Grady: 106 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Waymon: 15 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Charlie: 343 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Willie: 1,037 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	2,086	–	1
2	Betty	1,500	–	4
3	Shirley	896	↑16	2
4	Dorothy	744	↓1	6
5	Barbara	740	↓1	3
6	Annie	686	↓1	38
7	Martha	512	↓1	24
8	Ruby	372	↑5	41
9	Willie	359	↑8	99
10	Margaret	349	↓3	8
11	Sarah	342	↑1	61
12	Elizabeth	339	↓2	17
13	Helen	339	↓4	10
14	Frances	338	↓6	19
15	Doris	328	↓1	13
16	Mildred	319	↓5	35
17	Carolyn	311	↓2	28
18	Evelyn	307	↓2	31
19	Joyce	280	↑4	12
20	Louise	275	–	45
21	Virginia	267	↓3	16
22	Patricia	262	↑4	5
23	Peggy	260	↓1	36
24	Mattie	254	↓3	>100
25	Sara	243	↓1	>100
26	Lillie	220	↑2	>100
27	Ruth	214	–	15
28	Thelma	189	↑17	76
29	Alice	186	↓4	25
30	Gloria	186	↓1	32
31	Edna	184	↓1	67
32	Nancy	182	↑11	9
33	Juanita	181	↓1	72
34	Emma	178	↓3	89
35	Gladys	173	↓2	78
36	Joan	172	↑4	7
37	Catherine	168	↑5	42
38	Clara	166	↑1	81
39	Hazel	166	↓2	92
40	Ethel	165	↓4	82
41	Rosa	161	–	>100
42	Minnie	156	↑5	>100
43	Carrie	150	new	>100
44	Lois	148	↑2	21
45	Marie	140	new	33
46	Jean	139	new	18
47	Bessie	135	↑2	>100
48	Bobbie	135	↓14	>100
49	Ann	134	↓1	30
50	Geraldine	132	new	40

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	James	2,172	–	2
2	William	1,358	–	4
3	Robert	1,239	–	1
4	John	1,206	–	3
5	Charles	1,045	↑1	6
6	Willie	1,037	↓1	30
7	George	607	↑1	8
8	Bobby	568	↓1	24
9	Billy	506	–	19
10	Thomas	450	–	9
11	Henry	375	↑1	27
12	Joe	360	↑3	25
13	Charlie	343	↑9	100
14	Eugene	314	↓3	26
15	Donald	311	↑1	7
16	Richard	302	↑4	5
17	Edward	300	↑1	13
18	Jack	298	↓4	18
19	Joseph	298	↓2	10
20	Walter	293	↓7	23
21	Harold	289	↓2	20
22	Jimmy	269	↑2	47
23	David	261	↓2	11
24	Frank	238	↓1	16
25	Roy	219	↑1	40
26	Johnny	215	↑4	74
27	Eddie	211	↑1	87
28	Jerry	204	↑11	22
29	Paul	184	↑5	14
30	Albert	183	↓1	31
31	Jimmie	181	↑2	69
32	Arthur	178	↓1	29
33	Samuel	166	↑8	62
34	Kenneth	164	↑9	15
35	Fred	161	–	34
36	Ralph	161	↓4	32
37	Marvin	156	↑3	45
38	Johnnie	154	↓1	>100
39	Raymond	150	↓3	17
40	Howard	148	↓2	39
41	Clarence	144	↓14	48
42	Ronald	144	new	12
43	Ernest	142	↑1	55
44	Leroy	142	↓2	50
45	Franklin	141	↓20	71
46	Carl	127	↑1	28
47	Larry	126	new	33
48	Harry	116	↑2	37
49	Earl	111	–	46
50	Curtis	109	↓2	>100

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