Popular baby names in Georgia, 1939

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1939 were Mary for girls (2,195 babies) and James for boys (2,253). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 61,660 babies born in Georgia in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1939

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, 15.6× the national rate
Charlie: 40 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Rubye: 17 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Gussie: 24 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Lucile: 38 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Eddie: 45 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Essie: 78 babies, 6× the national rate
Mamie: 113 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Elouise: 30 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Leila: 29 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Felton: 22 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Emory: 44 babies, 9× the national rate
Lucius: 21 babies, 9× the national rate
Artis: 16 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Lamar: 49 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Hoyt: 24 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Grady: 107 babies, 8× the national rate
Ulysses: 31 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Terrell: 18 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Waymon: 17 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	2,195	–	1
2	Betty	1,371	–	4
3	Barbara	893	–	2
4	Shirley	705	↑1	5
5	Martha	630	↑2	27
6	Annie	611	↓2	54
7	Dorothy	599	↓1	9
8	Patricia	489	↑2	3
9	Carolyn	451	↓1	14
10	Frances	373	↑1	26
11	Margaret	350	↓2	10
12	Elizabeth	320	↑4	18
13	Nancy	318	↑10	7
14	Sarah	307	↑1	68
15	Joyce	290	↓3	12
16	Helen	285	↓3	16
17	Willie	283	↑4	>100
18	Virginia	280	↑4	21
19	Ruby	278	↓5	67
20	Mildred	277	↓1	55
21	Evelyn	275	↓3	40
22	Peggy	274	↓2	34
23	Doris	264	↓6	29
24	Linda	230	new	15
25	Alice	223	↑1	31
26	Sara	220	↓1	>100
27	Louise	216	↓3	59
28	Gloria	210	–	36
29	Sandra	203	↑5	13
30	Mattie	200	↓3	>100
31	Juanita	194	↓2	77
32	Emma	188	↓2	89
33	Lillie	183	–	>100
34	Rosa	168	↑11	>100
35	Janice	167	new	24
36	Joan	166	↑11	11
37	Geraldine	154	↑6	41
38	Julia	152	new	91
39	Ann	149	↑1	33
40	Annette	148	↑8	>100
41	Ruth	148	↓9	22
42	Hazel	147	↓4	>100
43	Bernice	146	↓2	>100
44	Thelma	146	↓9	88
45	Marie	144	new	37
46	Gladys	141	↑4	>100
47	Margie	139	new	>100
48	Minnie	139	new	>100
49	Edna	137	↓7	81
50	Christine	136	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	James	2,253	–	2
2	William	1,369	–	4
3	John	1,293	↑1	3
4	Robert	1,292	↓1	1
5	Charles	1,088	↑1	6
6	Willie	1,068	↓1	33
7	George	601	↑2	11
8	Bobby	582	↓1	29
9	Thomas	575	↓1	9
10	Jerry	459	↑3	16
11	Richard	394	↑8	5
12	David	392	↑3	7
13	Henry	390	↑1	31
14	Billy	378	↓4	24
15	Donald	375	↓4	8
16	Joe	353	↓4	27
17	Jimmy	337	↓1	43
18	Joseph	337	–	12
19	Walter	327	↓2	25
20	Charlie	304	↑2	>100
21	Edward	303	↓1	15
22	Larry	270	↑6	14
23	Harold	267	↑1	23
24	Johnny	255	↓3	62
25	Jack	252	–	26
26	Kenneth	251	↑3	13
27	Frank	239	↓1	20
28	Eugene	236	↓5	37
29	Eddie	224	↓2	81
30	Roy	220	↑2	42
31	Paul	207	↑4	17
32	Ralph	199	↓1	35
33	Arthur	197	↑4	32
34	Albert	187	↓1	41
35	Ronald	185	↓1	10
36	Raymond	179	↓6	22
37	Clarence	171	↑5	60
38	Samuel	163	↑5	63
39	Johnnie	160	↓3	>100
40	Tommy	156	↑1	77
41	Carl	155	↑4	30
42	Marvin	154	↓3	52
43	Leroy	146	↑4	61
44	Ernest	145	↑5	55
45	Howard	145	↑5	47
46	Jimmie	142	↓6	80
47	Harry	139	↓1	45
48	Fred	138	↓10	40
49	Wayne	134	new	39
50	Curtis	127	↓6	98

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