Popular baby names in Louisiana, 1911

The most popular baby names in Louisiana in 1911 were Mary for girls (502 babies) and John for boys (223). Social Security records list 13,340 babies born in Louisiana in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Louisiana in 1911

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

Girls

Myrtis: 16 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Aline: 28 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Cecile: 29 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Olivia: 29 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Rosalie: 33 babies, 5× the national rate
Lelia: 17 babies, 5× the national rate
Leola: 38 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rena: 24 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lorena: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Rosie: 54 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Johnny: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Charley: 17 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Mack: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Eddie: 37 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Allen: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Claude: 28 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Alex: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Willie: 142 babies, 3× the national rate
Sidney: 25 babies, 3× the national rate
Earnest: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Louisiana, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	502	–	1
2	Marie	180	↑2	9
3	Annie	154	↓1	24
4	Ethel	151	↑1	15
5	Louise	126	↓2	19
6	Helen	115	↑5	2
7	Lucille	115	↓1	32
8	Anna	112	↑8	6
9	Lillian	111	↑1	13
10	Thelma	109	↑4	27
11	Alice	105	↓2	11
12	Beatrice	103	↓5	37
13	Gladys	103	↑6	18
14	Hazel	102	↓2	25
15	Josephine	96	↑2	29
16	Ruth	94	↓1	5
17	Lillie	93	↑6	60
18	Mildred	93	↑13	8
19	Edna	90	↓11	17
20	Ruby	90	↑17	22
21	Elizabeth	84	↓8	7
22	Alma	78	↑8	62
23	Bertha	78	↑4	36
24	Rose	76	↓3	14
25	Dorothy	75	↑15	4
26	Myrtle	75	↑3	50
27	Ella	74	↑23	63
28	Willie	73	↑8	61
29	Frances	72	↑17	10
30	Bessie	70	↓5	40
31	Sarah	68	↑13	42
32	Agnes	67	↑11	39
33	Emma	66	↓15	35
34	Florence	65	↓14	12
35	Viola	65	↓13	47
36	Clara	64	↑5	33
37	Gertrude	64	↓13	30
38	Margaret	64	↓3	3
39	Mattie	64	↓7	65
40	Laura	63	↓2	57
41	Martha	63	↑8	28
42	Irene	62	↓8	21
43	Ida	61	↓1	45
44	Bernice	60	new	51
45	Lena	59	↓17	70
46	Eva	58	↓13	46
47	Evelyn	58	↓8	16
48	Pearl	58	↓22	48
49	Beulah	57	new	79
50	Carrie	55	↓5	78

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	223	–	1
2	James	205	–	3
3	Joseph	181	–	6
4	William	145	↑2	2
5	Willie	142	↓1	14
6	Robert	127	↑1	5
7	George	117	↑1	4
8	Henry	99	↓3	11
9	Frank	95	↑5	8
10	Edward	86	↑5	9
11	Albert	76	↓2	15
12	Charles	74	–	7
13	Thomas	67	↑3	10
14	Clarence	61	↑4	23
15	Joe	59	↓5	29
16	Walter	59	↓3	12
17	Earl	55	↑4	34
18	Ernest	55	↑2	32
19	Louis	53	↓8	21
20	Jack	52	↑6	25
21	Arthur	44	↓2	18
22	Fred	43	↑10	22
23	Paul	42	↓1	17
24	Richard	42	↑13	20
25	Eugene	39	new	43
26	Eddie	37	↓3	78
27	Lawrence	37	–	37
28	Leo	35	↑19	51
29	Samuel	35	↑6	30
30	Charlie	34	–	45
31	Sam	34	↓14	47
32	Andrew	32	↓8	42
33	David	29	↓5	27
34	Claude	28	↑16	87
35	Harold	28	↑7	16
36	Herman	27	new	49
37	Jessie	27	↓8	79
38	Roy	27	↑11	31
39	Allen	25	new	98
40	Leon	25	↑5	77
41	Leonard	25	new	46
42	Oscar	25	new	68
43	Sidney	25	↓12	92
44	Alfred	24	↓19	39
45	Leroy	24	new	59
46	Harry	23	↓8	13
47	Jesse	23	↓4	72
48	Johnnie	23	↓12	90
49	Lee	23	↓9	67
50	Alvin	22	↓17	89

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