Popular baby names in Georgia, 1938

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1938 were Mary for girls (2,183 babies) and James for boys (2,252). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 60,398 babies born in Georgia in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1938

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: 27 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Willene: 22 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Charlie: 34 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Lizzie: 71 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Mamie: 126 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Lucile: 34 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Gussie: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Freddie: 36 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Myrtis: 16 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Annie: 702 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Lucious: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Emory: 47 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Hoyt: 27 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Lucius: 20 babies, 8× the national rate
Felton: 16 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Lamar: 42 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Talmadge: 18 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Rufus: 88 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Anderson: 18 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Grady: 86 babies, 6.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Mary	2,183	–	1
2	Betty	1,358	–	4
3	Barbara	900	–	2
4	Annie	702	↑1	47
5	Shirley	695	↓1	5
6	Dorothy	656	–	8
7	Martha	637	–	26
8	Carolyn	420	↑1	15
9	Margaret	387	↑1	9
10	Patricia	386	↓2	3
11	Frances	358	↑1	23
12	Joyce	323	↑8	11
13	Helen	317	↑2	13
14	Ruby	307	↑3	61
15	Sarah	306	↑1	67
16	Elizabeth	304	↓5	17
17	Doris	295	↓4	25
18	Evelyn	284	↑3	38
19	Mildred	274	↑5	52
20	Peggy	272	↑2	35
21	Willie	270	↓7	>100
22	Virginia	250	↓4	22
23	Nancy	246	↑4	7
24	Louise	237	↓1	59
25	Sara	218	↑4	>100
26	Alice	217	↓1	29
27	Mattie	207	↓8	>100
28	Gloria	201	↑4	36
29	Juanita	186	↑2	80
30	Emma	181	–	96
31	Carol	178	new	6
32	Ruth	172	↓6	21
33	Lillie	169	↓5	>100
34	Sandra	165	new	14
35	Thelma	162	↑2	86
36	Catherine	161	↓2	48
37	Clara	158	↑11	98
38	Hazel	158	↓3	>100
39	Bobbie	157	↓6	>100
40	Ann	149	↓4	32
41	Bernice	148	↑2	>100
42	Edna	148	↓1	82
43	Geraldine	148	↑1	45
44	Jean	145	↑1	27
45	Rosa	136	↓5	>100
46	Sylvia	136	↑4	56
47	Joan	135	↓1	10
48	Annette	133	↓6	>100
49	Ethel	133	new	94
50	Gladys	132	↓12	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	James	2,252	–	2
2	William	1,412	–	4
3	Robert	1,307	↑1	1
4	John	1,275	↓1	3
5	Willie	1,038	↑1	34
6	Charles	1,035	↓1	6
7	Bobby	544	–	27
8	Thomas	544	↑1	9
9	George	534	↓1	11
10	Billy	471	–	24
11	Donald	385	↑1	7
12	Joe	384	↓1	28
13	Jerry	372	↑5	17
14	Henry	369	↓1	30
15	David	361	–	8
16	Jimmy	340	↓2	45
17	Walter	328	↑4	26
18	Joseph	323	↓2	12
19	Richard	296	↓2	5
20	Edward	283	↓1	13
21	Johnny	261	↑4	63
22	Charlie	250	↓2	>100
23	Eugene	245	↑3	33
24	Harold	237	–	23
25	Jack	233	↓3	25
26	Frank	232	↓3	18
27	Eddie	215	↑1	79
28	Larry	208	↑7	16
29	Kenneth	205	↑2	14
30	Raymond	194	↓3	20
31	Ralph	191	↑1	35
32	Roy	186	↓3	41
33	Albert	178	–	37
34	Ronald	176	↑8	10
35	Paul	174	↓1	15
36	Johnnie	171	–	>100
37	Arthur	167	↓7	32
38	Fred	167	↓1	38
39	Marvin	165	↑6	53
40	Jimmie	163	↓2	76
41	Tommy	160	↓1	77
42	Clarence	148	↓1	58
43	Samuel	146	–	62
44	Curtis	137	new	>100
45	Carl	135	↓1	29
46	Harry	132	–	44
47	Leroy	128	–	61
48	Melvin	125	↑1	54
49	Ernest	123	↓1	55
50	Howard	122	–	42

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