Popular baby names in Kentucky, 1920

The most popular baby names in Kentucky in 1920 were Mary for girls (2,339 babies) and James for boys (2,158). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 53,831 babies born in Kentucky in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kentucky in 1920

Names given at least 15 times in Kentucky that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Hallie: 45 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Golda: 21 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Nannie: 98 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Oma: 37 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Dixie: 37 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Roxie: 31 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Virgie: 56 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Maudie: 35 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Alpha: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Geneva: 258 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Estill: 24 babies, 31.1× the national rate
Rollie: 15 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Garnett: 21 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Hobert: 39 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Dillard: 15 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Shelby: 24 babies, 7× the national rate
Pearl: 15 babies, 7× the national rate
Ottis: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Hobart: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Jewell: 15 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kentucky, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	2,339	–	1
2	Dorothy	873	–	2
3	Margaret	591	–	4
4	Helen	564	–	3
5	Virginia	541	↑1	7
6	Ruth	536	↑1	5
7	Mildred	509	↑2	6
8	Anna	506	↓3	10
9	Ruby	464	↓1	26
10	Elizabeth	404	↑1	8
11	Martha	401	↑1	23
12	Edna	364	↓2	27
13	Thelma	355	↑4	31
14	Hazel	337	↓1	34
15	Marie	320	↑3	13
16	Edith	309	–	32
17	Frances	309	↓2	9
18	Gladys	308	↓4	22
19	Evelyn	274	–	12
20	Lillian	267	↑1	18
21	Pauline	265	↑5	36
22	Geneva	258	↑6	>100
23	Ethel	249	↓3	30
24	Irene	249	↓2	17
25	Lucille	245	↓2	29
26	Louise	230	↓1	19
27	Juanita	226	↑11	61
28	Emma	224	↑11	46
29	Opal	222	↓5	>100
30	Myrtle	197	↓1	68
31	Alma	188	↑5	80
32	Bessie	181	–	71
33	Catherine	178	↑13	21
34	Eva	171	↑3	58
35	Sarah	168	–	50
36	Clara	166	↓3	44
37	Nellie	163	↑5	76
38	Beulah	162	new	>100
39	Grace	160	↓8	37
40	Georgia	159	new	>100
41	Betty	158	new	11
42	Mabel	158	↓8	83
43	Nancy	156	↓2	95
44	Alice	154	↓17	15
45	Elsie	145	↓2	51
46	Lillie	143	new	90
47	Bertha	139	↓17	57
48	Christine	139	new	>100
49	Beatrice	138	↓5	41
50	Katherine	138	↓5	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	James	2,158	–	4
2	William	1,662	–	2
3	John	1,138	–	1
4	Charles	958	–	5
5	Robert	957	–	3
6	George	614	–	6
7	Joseph	430	↑2	7
8	Edward	390	↓1	8
9	Thomas	376	↓1	11
10	Paul	331	↑1	14
11	Raymond	316	↓1	15
12	Harold	281	↑6	12
13	Roy	266	↑1	32
14	Earl	263	↓2	31
15	Frank	257	↑5	9
16	Henry	254	↓3	17
17	Walter	243	↓2	13
18	Carl	235	↓2	27
19	Clarence	223	↓2	26
20	Richard	217	↑1	10
21	Harry	198	↑2	21
22	Elmer	185	↑5	45
23	Ralph	185	↑8	22
24	Howard	183	↑6	24
25	Ernest	181	↑9	37
26	Arthur	177	↓4	18
27	Chester	172	↓1	55
28	Eugene	172	↑16	30
29	Joe	172	↓5	35
30	Albert	162	↓5	19
31	Jack	159	↓2	20
32	Fred	157	↓4	33
33	Willie	156	↓14	29
34	Cecil	153	↓1	77
35	Kenneth	152	↑1	23
36	Jesse	144	↑3	79
37	Edwin	137	↓5	53
38	Herbert	137	↑2	41
39	Warren	137	new	39
40	David	136	↑8	25
41	Ray	134	↓3	67
42	Clyde	130	↓7	68
43	Russell	125	↓1	51
44	Marvin	122	↑1	62
45	Lawrence	119	↓8	36
46	Virgil	119	new	>100
47	Leonard	118	new	38
48	Homer	115	↓5	100
49	Samuel	109	–	44
50	Luther	104	new	>100

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