Popular baby names in Georgia, 1945

The most popular baby names in Georgia in 1945 were Mary for girls (2,098 babies) and James for boys (2,568). Social Security records list 69,196 babies born in Georgia in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Georgia in 1945

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: 21 babies, 24.2× the national rate
Charlie: 29 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Lucile: 25 babies, 8× the national rate
Lizzie: 46 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Georgie: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Leila: 28 babies, 6× the national rate
Essie: 59 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Annie: 564 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Mattie: 160 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lessie: 19 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Emory: 45 babies, 11× the national rate
Felton: 22 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Lamar: 51 babies, 10× the national rate
Hoyt: 18 babies, 9× the national rate
Ulysses: 21 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Charlie: 305 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Grady: 70 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Mcarthur: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Willie: 1,112 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Horace: 84 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Georgia, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Mary	2,098	–	1
2	Linda	1,278	–	2
3	Betty	1,098	–	11
4	Barbara	966	–	3
5	Patricia	948	–	4
6	Shirley	680	↑1	14
7	Sandra	645	↓1	6
8	Brenda	637	↑1	29
9	Carolyn	590	↑2	12
10	Martha	579	↓2	30
11	Annie	564	↑1	69
12	Dorothy	562	↓2	21
13	Nancy	433	–	7
14	Judy	432	↑4	13
15	Margaret	407	↓1	15
16	Gloria	376	–	23
17	Elizabeth	339	↓2	26
18	Carol	333	↑2	5
19	Frances	305	–	34
20	Joyce	301	↓3	18
21	Janice	298	↑3	24
22	Sarah	284	↑1	76
23	Virginia	279	↓2	28
24	Peggy	273	↓2	45
25	Helen	271	–	31
26	Willie	253	–	>100
27	Doris	242	↑2	46
28	Evelyn	228	↑3	57
29	Glenda	219	↓1	92
30	Ruby	219	↓3	95
31	Mildred	205	↓1	93
32	Susan	197	↑16	10
33	Alice	184	–	41
34	Ann	176	↑5	39
35	Louise	176	–	78
36	Patsy	176	↑14	84
37	Beverly	172	↑1	37
38	Judith	171	↓1	9
39	Joan	163	↓5	25
40	Sara	163	↑7	>100
41	Emma	161	↑5	>100
42	Mattie	160	↓10	>100
43	Juanita	157	↓7	>100
44	Donna	153	new	17
45	Rosa	152	↓5	>100
46	Christine	145	new	62
47	Ruth	145	new	33
48	Diane	139	new	22
49	Jo	137	↓8	60
50	Catherine	133	↓7	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	James	2,568	–	1
2	Robert	1,473	↑2	2
3	William	1,442	–	4
4	John	1,364	↓2	3
5	Charles	1,160	–	7
6	Willie	1,112	–	31
7	Larry	789	–	11
8	Thomas	678	↑3	8
9	Jerry	665	↑1	20
10	David	597	↓1	6
11	George	592	↓3	15
12	Richard	586	–	5
13	Johnny	521	–	45
14	Jimmy	496	–	41
15	Bobby	464	↑1	53
16	Joseph	424	↓1	14
17	Henry	409	↑1	37
18	Donald	364	↓1	12
19	Walter	349	–	27
20	Billy	338	–	42
21	Edward	338	↑2	18
22	Ronald	326	↓1	10
23	Charlie	305	↑3	>100
24	Michael	298	↑1	9
25	Roy	292	↑2	40
26	Kenneth	290	↓4	16
27	Eddie	284	↓3	81
28	Tommy	271	↑2	75
29	Joe	255	↓1	36
30	Harold	239	↑1	28
31	Frank	234	↓2	21
32	Harry	222	↑9	47
33	Gary	206	↑2	13
34	Jack	206	↓2	32
35	Arthur	204	↓2	34
36	Paul	199	↓2	17
37	Raymond	194	↑2	23
38	Ralph	192	↓2	44
39	Douglas	190	↑1	29
40	Roger	185	↑8	22
41	Samuel	182	↑2	62
42	Eugene	177	↓4	50
43	Albert	169	↓6	49
44	Wayne	169	↓2	35
45	Marvin	156	↑4	80
46	Clarence	155	↓1	82
47	Carl	147	new	39
48	Leroy	145	new	83
49	Johnnie	143	new	>100
50	Curtis	142	new	97

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