Popular baby names in Georgia, 1940

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1940 were Mary for girls (2,176 babies) and James for boys (2,414). Social Security records list 62,898 babies born in Georgia in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1940

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, 17.7× the national rate
Charlie: 35 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Lucile: 35 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Lizzie: 53 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Gussie: 23 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Elouise: 24 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Mamie: 100 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Annie: 614 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Mattie: 188 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 124 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Boys

Lamar: 62 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Emory: 51 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Talmadge: 26 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Felton: 21 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Grady: 101 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Columbus: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Rufus: 81 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Willie: 1,030 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Charlie: 286 babies, 6× the national rate
Ulysses: 25 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Mary	2,176	–	1
2	Betty	1,281	–	5
3	Barbara	954	–	2
4	Martha	649	↑1	26
5	Shirley	636	↓1	9
6	Annie	614	–	56
7	Patricia	593	↑1	3
8	Dorothy	575	↓1	12
9	Carolyn	464	–	15
10	Linda	437	↑14	8
11	Frances	364	↓1	28
12	Margaret	350	↓1	11
13	Joyce	347	↑2	13
14	Elizabeth	346	↓2	20
15	Sandra	328	↑14	10
16	Helen	325	–	18
17	Sarah	310	↓3	60
18	Nancy	300	↓5	7
19	Virginia	289	↓1	21
20	Doris	285	↑3	31
21	Gloria	279	↑7	30
22	Willie	269	↓5	>100
23	Peggy	259	↓1	37
24	Ruby	257	↓5	66
25	Mildred	243	↓5	58
26	Louise	235	↑1	59
27	Alice	225	↓2	32
28	Evelyn	220	↓7	48
29	Sara	218	↓3	>100
30	Brenda	190	new	42
31	Lillie	189	↑2	>100
32	Mattie	188	↓2	>100
33	Emma	177	↓1	94
34	Janice	173	↑1	22
35	Geraldine	168	↑2	46
36	Patsy	163	new	57
37	Carol	160	new	6
38	Juanita	157	↓7	78
39	Edna	154	↑10	86
40	Ann	151	↓1	35
41	Ruth	151	–	24
42	Jean	150	new	29
43	Vivian	147	new	>100
44	Clara	146	new	>100
45	Glenda	146	new	>100
46	Bernice	144	↓3	>100
47	Thelma	143	↓3	>100
48	Catherine	142	new	53
49	Charlotte	141	new	55
50	Hazel	141	↓8	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	James	2,414	–	1
2	William	1,415	–	4
3	Robert	1,345	↑1	2
4	John	1,279	↓1	3
5	Charles	1,062	–	6
6	Willie	1,030	–	35
7	Thomas	586	↑2	8
8	George	576	↓1	11
9	Bobby	535	↓1	30
10	Jerry	487	–	14
11	David	424	↑1	7
12	Jimmy	414	↑5	44
13	Donald	407	↑2	9
14	Richard	398	↓3	5
15	Henry	395	↓2	31
16	Billy	374	↓2	27
17	Joseph	361	↑1	12
18	Joe	344	↓2	28
19	Johnny	325	↑5	51
20	Larry	322	↑2	13
21	Walter	305	↓2	25
22	Roy	287	↑8	42
23	Charlie	286	↓3	>100
24	Edward	283	↓3	16
25	Eugene	273	↑3	38
26	Harold	255	↓3	23
27	Frank	237	–	20
28	Jack	230	↓3	29
29	Albert	220	↑5	41
30	Kenneth	216	↓4	15
31	Eddie	215	↓2	81
32	Ronald	215	↑3	10
33	Paul	212	↓2	17
34	Ralph	196	↓2	37
35	Tommy	195	↑5	76
36	Arthur	184	↓3	33
37	Johnnie	170	↑2	>100
38	Raymond	170	↓2	22
39	Clarence	167	↓2	64
40	Melvin	155	new	53
41	Fred	154	↑7	40
42	Jimmie	152	↑4	86
43	Ernest	151	↑1	58
44	Marvin	146	↓2	63
45	Harry	145	↑2	47
46	Samuel	138	↓8	65
47	Howard	130	↓2	45
48	Leroy	127	↓5	66
49	Wayne	127	–	39
50	Franklin	125	new	87

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