Popular baby names in Kentucky, 1926

The most popular baby names in Kentucky in 1926 were Mary for girls (2,313 babies) and James for boys (2,183). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 54,055 babies born in Kentucky in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kentucky in 1926

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

Girls

Nannie: 80 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Mayme: 25 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Ona: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Emogene: 27 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Easter: 15 babies, 5× the national rate
Oma: 23 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Geneva: 269 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Virgie: 48 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Reva: 36 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Maudie: 24 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Estill: 24 babies, 40.1× the national rate
Estil: 20 babies, 24.1× the national rate
Rollie: 15 babies, 13× the national rate
Hobert: 33 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Denver: 39 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Shelby: 23 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Kelly: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Hershel: 26 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Coleman: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Woodrow: 35 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kentucky, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	2,313	–	1
2	Dorothy	893	–	2
3	Betty	639	↑5	3
4	Helen	613	↓1	4
5	Anna	569	↓1	15
6	Virginia	547	↑1	8
7	Margaret	511	↓1	5
8	Ruth	501	↓3	6
9	Mildred	454	–	9
10	Ruby	453	–	30
11	Martha	436	–	24
12	Frances	336	↑2	10
13	Juanita	328	↑2	52
14	Elizabeth	322	↓1	11
15	Edna	292	↓3	38
16	Thelma	290	–	36
17	Pauline	286	–	39
18	Gladys	272	–	35
19	Geneva	269	–	>100
20	Evelyn	260	↑2	13
21	Edith	257	–	42
22	Doris	252	↑1	7
23	Hazel	225	↓3	48
24	Marie	219	–	18
25	Jean	208	↑4	12
26	Louise	203	↓1	27
27	Alice	198	–	17
28	Lillian	198	–	28
29	Alma	193	↑6	91
30	Wanda	191	↑19	66
31	Emma	190	↑5	59
32	Irene	189	↓6	21
33	Opal	188	↓2	>100
34	Wilma	185	↑5	67
35	Norma	174	↑6	29
36	Lucille	173	↓4	43
37	Ethel	167	↓7	41
38	Sarah	166	↓1	63
39	Lois	164	↑3	19
40	Nancy	159	↓6	57
41	Christine	147	↑5	>100
42	Marjorie	143	↓9	22
43	Bessie	140	new	89
44	Ella	138	new	98
45	Eva	138	↓2	79
46	Georgia	138	↓8	>100
47	Clara	137	↑3	61
48	Myrtle	133	↓8	>100
49	Bertha	127	↓4	76
50	Margie	126	↓3	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	2,183	–	3
2	William	1,653	–	4
3	Charles	1,147	↑2	5
4	Robert	1,087	–	1
5	John	1,058	↓2	2
6	George	562	–	6
7	Thomas	430	↑1	11
8	Paul	412	↓1	13
9	Joseph	382	–	8
10	Edward	350	–	10
11	Harold	318	–	14
12	Raymond	314	↑2	15
13	Jack	282	↑2	16
14	Roy	281	↑3	34
15	Richard	267	↑4	7
16	Earl	266	↓3	32
17	Kenneth	261	↓1	18
18	Eugene	259	↑4	23
19	Carl	255	↓7	26
20	Walter	246	↑1	17
21	Henry	244	↓3	19
22	Clarence	212	↑3	29
23	Joe	212	↓3	33
24	Frank	210	↓1	12
25	Donald	198	↑7	9
26	Fred	192	↑2	31
27	Billy	188	↑6	40
28	Ralph	186	↓4	24
29	Albert	171	↑6	21
30	Ray	168	↑4	57
31	David	164	↓1	22
32	Howard	164	↓5	27
33	Harry	159	↓7	25
34	Cecil	149	↑6	86
35	Arthur	147	↓4	20
36	Willie	138	↑1	28
37	Louis	136	↑7	30
38	Chester	134	↑1	79
39	Elmer	133	↓10	61
40	Ernest	131	↓4	37
41	Clyde	128	↓3	67
42	Lawrence	125	↑3	36
43	Jesse	122	↑4	87
44	Floyd	120	↓2	53
45	Herbert	119	↑3	44
46	Virgil	113	new	>100
47	Russell	107	↓6	52
48	Samuel	105	↓2	48
49	Leonard	101	new	38
50	Marvin	101	↓7	50

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