Popular baby names in Kentucky, 1923

The most popular baby names in Kentucky in 1923 were Mary for girls (2,345 babies) and James for boys (2,182). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 55,940 babies born in Kentucky in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kentucky in 1923

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

Girls

Maxie: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Delphia: 17 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Vina: 17 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Nola: 50 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Oma: 37 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Emogene: 26 babies, 6× the national rate
Artie: 21 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Alpha: 22 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Nannie: 72 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Zola: 18 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Estill: 17 babies, 34.4× the national rate
Hobert: 37 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Shelby: 28 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Dillard: 19 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Garnett: 17 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Allie: 16 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Jewell: 20 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Ford: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mckinley: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Clay: 17 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kentucky, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	2,345	–	1
2	Dorothy	937	–	2
3	Virginia	635	–	7
4	Ruth	597	↑2	6
5	Margaret	594	↓1	4
6	Helen	589	↑1	3
7	Mildred	521	↑1	8
8	Anna	520	↓3	13
9	Ruby	520	–	25
10	Martha	425	–	21
11	Thelma	393	↑5	31
12	Edna	383	↑1	32
13	Elizabeth	374	↓2	9
14	Frances	344	↑1	10
15	Betty	339	↑8	5
16	Hazel	304	↓2	40
17	Edith	289	–	36
18	Juanita	285	↑1	51
19	Gladys	277	↓7	29
20	Pauline	273	↑2	37
21	Marie	271	↓1	14
22	Geneva	270	↓1	>100
23	Evelyn	259	↓5	12
24	Louise	237	–	22
25	Lillian	225	–	20
26	Irene	217	–	17
27	Alice	212	↑12	15
28	Lucille	212	↓1	35
29	Ethel	208	–	38
30	Emma	205	↑5	53
31	Doris	199	↑6	11
32	Opal	199	↓4	>100
33	Sarah	199	↓3	54
34	Christine	196	↑4	>100
35	Marjorie	190	↑1	16
36	Eva	182	↑8	66
37	Elsie	180	↓3	61
38	Beulah	166	↑3	>100
39	Myrtle	165	↓8	84
40	Nancy	162	↓8	75
41	Bessie	157	↑2	81
42	Alma	156	new	89
43	Jean	151	new	19
44	Clara	150	↓11	49
45	Bertha	146	↓3	64
46	Ella	145	↑3	93
47	Catherine	144	new	24
48	Katherine	142	↓8	60
49	Lucy	141	new	92
50	Beatrice	140	↓2	46

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	James	2,182	–	4
2	William	1,707	–	3
3	John	1,178	–	1
4	Charles	1,077	–	5
5	Robert	1,050	–	2
6	George	626	–	6
7	Thomas	412	–	12
8	Joseph	411	↑1	7
9	Edward	400	↑1	8
10	Paul	396	↓2	14
11	Harold	333	–	13
12	Raymond	292	–	15
13	Earl	281	–	31
14	Henry	271	–	18
15	Walter	269	↑2	16
16	Frank	262	↑2	11
17	Roy	262	↓2	32
18	Carl	259	↓2	28
19	Eugene	239	↑7	25
20	Jack	234	↑2	17
21	Kenneth	227	↓1	21
22	Richard	225	↓1	9
23	Clarence	213	↓4	29
24	Harry	206	↑5	22
25	Joe	203	↓1	35
26	Ralph	193	↑2	23
27	Fred	171	↑9	33
28	Albert	163	↑2	20
29	Howard	161	↑2	26
30	Arthur	156	↓5	19
31	Elmer	154	↓8	57
32	David	147	↑2	24
33	Cecil	143	↓1	87
34	Ernest	143	↑5	38
35	Jesse	139	↑7	83
36	Willie	137	↓9	30
37	Chester	134	↓4	63
38	Clyde	133	↓1	68
39	Ray	130	↓4	61
40	Lawrence	129	↑1	36
41	Herbert	126	↓3	40
42	Donald	118	↑6	10
43	Louis	113	↑1	27
44	Samuel	113	↓1	45
45	Leonard	109	↑1	37
46	Russell	108	↓6	52
47	Virgil	106	↓2	100
48	Edgar	105	new	94
49	Marvin	103	↓2	51
50	Bill	102	new	98

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