Popular baby names in Kentucky, 1922

The most popular baby names in Kentucky in 1922 were Mary for girls (2,442 babies) and James for boys (2,071). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 55,962 babies born in Kentucky in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kentucky in 1922

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

Girls

Oma: 38 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Vina: 16 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Polly: 46 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Roxie: 39 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Alene: 33 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nannie: 74 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Virgie: 71 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Mayme: 26 babies, 5× the national rate
Hallie: 30 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Geneva: 271 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Estill: 21 babies, 35.3× the national rate
Estil: 17 babies, 26.4× the national rate
Ballard: 15 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Hobert: 52 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Garnett: 22 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Shelby: 25 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Denver: 29 babies, 7× the national rate
Ottis: 20 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Avery: 19 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Omer: 28 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kentucky, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	2,442	–	1
2	Dorothy	957	–	2
3	Virginia	617	↑2	7
4	Margaret	588	–	4
5	Anna	573	↓2	12
6	Ruth	548	–	5
7	Helen	547	–	3
8	Mildred	472	–	8
9	Ruby	455	–	26
10	Martha	386	↑3	21
11	Elizabeth	374	↓1	9
12	Gladys	359	↑4	25
13	Edna	341	↓2	29
14	Hazel	340	↑1	37
15	Frances	327	↓1	10
16	Thelma	312	↓4	31
17	Edith	300	↑1	34
18	Evelyn	287	↑1	13
19	Juanita	281	↑1	57
20	Marie	280	↓3	14
21	Geneva	271	↑2	>100
22	Pauline	265	↓1	36
23	Betty	263	↑7	6
24	Louise	254	↑2	22
25	Lillian	249	↑3	19
26	Irene	243	↑1	17
27	Lucille	228	↓5	33
28	Opal	214	↓4	>100
29	Ethel	207	↓4	32
30	Sarah	194	↑2	51
31	Myrtle	193	↓2	75
32	Nancy	190	↑3	78
33	Clara	186	↑3	47
34	Elsie	186	↑5	59
35	Emma	185	↓4	50
36	Marjorie	183	↑13	16
37	Doris	177	new	11
38	Christine	176	↑8	>100
39	Alice	167	↓5	15
40	Katherine	162	↑4	54
41	Beulah	161	↑4	>100
42	Bertha	154	↓5	63
43	Bessie	154	↓5	81
44	Eva	153	new	64
45	Margie	152	new	100
46	Wilma	148	new	77
47	Georgia	147	↓5	>100
48	Beatrice	140	–	43
49	Ella	140	new	90
50	Nellie	140	↓9	83

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	2,071	–	4
2	William	1,626	–	3
3	John	1,217	–	1
4	Charles	1,109	–	5
5	Robert	1,020	–	2
6	George	636	–	6
7	Thomas	417	↑3	11
8	Paul	400	↑1	14
9	Joseph	388	↓1	7
10	Edward	358	↓3	8
11	Harold	291	↑5	13
12	Raymond	290	↓1	16
13	Earl	280	↑2	31
14	Henry	279	↓2	17
15	Roy	276	↓2	32
16	Carl	257	↑2	30
17	Walter	250	↓3	15
18	Frank	241	↓1	10
19	Clarence	228	↑2	29
20	Kenneth	221	↑7	21
21	Richard	214	↓2	9
22	Jack	213	↑3	18
23	Elmer	201	↓1	54
24	Joe	199	↑2	35
25	Arthur	198	↑4	19
26	Eugene	178	↓6	25
27	Willie	177	↑8	28
28	Ralph	175	↓5	23
29	Harry	173	↓5	22
30	Albert	171	↑1	20
31	Howard	159	↑2	26
32	Cecil	157	↑6	85
33	Chester	157	↓3	64
34	David	151	↑2	24
35	Ray	147	↑4	65
36	Fred	143	↓2	33
37	Clyde	141	–	67
38	Herbert	140	↑8	40
39	Ernest	129	↓7	37
40	Russell	129	↑8	49
41	Lawrence	126	↑6	36
42	Jesse	125	↓2	81
43	Samuel	124	↓1	43
44	Louis	116	↓3	27
45	Virgil	115	new	99
46	Leonard	111	↓3	38
47	Marvin	110	↓2	56
48	Donald	107	new	12
49	Everett	107	new	98
50	Oscar	101	new	92

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