Popular baby names in Louisiana, 1913

The most popular baby names in Louisiana in 1913 were Mary for girls (634 babies) and John for boys (452). Social Security records list 21,200 babies born in Louisiana in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Louisiana in 1913

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

Girls

Enola: 17 babies, 23× the national rate
Octavia: 19 babies, 14× the national rate
Celestine: 16 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Albertha: 16 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Aline: 34 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Earline: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Elise: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Leola: 65 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Olivia: 31 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Yvonne: 24 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Whitney: 16 babies, 27.4× the national rate
Emile: 30 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Jules: 22 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Junius: 15 babies, 12× the national rate
Cleveland: 26 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Freddie: 24 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Percy: 41 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Johnny: 24 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Charley: 23 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Eddie: 68 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Louisiana, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	634	–	1
2	Marie	226	–	10
3	Annie	178	–	30
4	Louise	174	↑1	17
5	Helen	168	↑3	2
6	Ethel	166	↓2	20
7	Mildred	156	↓1	6
8	Lucille	149	↑2	31
9	Hazel	143	↑6	27
10	Thelma	136	↑9	26
11	Beatrice	134	–	37
12	Ruth	134	↑6	5
13	Edna	133	↓1	18
14	Gladys	133	↓7	19
15	Alice	132	↑5	11
16	Anna	129	↑8	7
17	Lillian	123	↓8	16
18	Dorothy	121	↑8	3
19	Willie	119	↓6	65
20	Margaret	118	↑9	4
21	Josephine	113	↓4	24
22	Ruby	111	↓6	23
23	Bertha	110	↑11	39
24	Elizabeth	109	↓10	8
25	Evelyn	106	↑2	12
26	Bessie	104	↓5	47
27	Agnes	94	↑18	41
28	Ida	93	↑13	49
29	Rose	93	↓7	14
30	Emma	91	↓5	38
31	Gertrude	91	↑1	33
32	Florence	85	↑16	13
33	Mabel	85	↑4	56
34	Viola	85	↑1	52
35	Lillie	84	↓7	71
36	Laura	83	new	62
37	Myrtle	82	↓4	53
38	Bernice	81	↑5	45
39	Alma	80	↑3	64
40	Frances	80	↑4	9
41	Lena	80	↓5	73
42	Inez	79	new	98
43	Irene	77	↓13	21
44	Carrie	76	new	90
45	Clara	75	new	36
46	Ella	74	↓8	70
47	Sarah	74	↓16	43
48	Eva	73	↓25	50
49	Pearl	72	↓9	55
50	Edith	70	new	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	452	–	1
2	James	377	–	3
3	Joseph	358	–	5
4	William	292	–	2
5	Willie	232	–	24
6	Robert	218	–	4
7	Henry	193	–	12
8	Edward	186	↑2	8
9	George	185	↓1	6
10	Charles	172	↓1	7
11	Frank	168	–	9
12	Louis	166	–	20
13	Clarence	137	–	21
14	Albert	136	–	16
15	Thomas	124	–	10
16	Walter	97	–	11
17	Joe	93	–	37
18	Arthur	90	–	17
19	Earl	88	↑2	31
20	Lawrence	86	↑4	35
21	Paul	81	↑6	14
22	Jack	74	↑13	28
23	Roy	74	↑3	32
24	Harold	73	↑12	13
25	Richard	73	–	19
26	Sam	69	↓4	65
27	Eddie	68	↑5	>100
28	David	59	↑3	29
29	Harry	59	↓1	15
30	Ernest	56	↓11	34
31	Herbert	56	↑3	39
32	Charlie	55	↓9	62
33	Jessie	53	↑7	>100
34	Andrew	52	↓4	47
35	Woodrow	52	new	44
36	Eugene	51	↑1	43
37	Fred	51	↓17	27
38	Leon	51	↓9	81
39	Herman	49	–	53
40	Anthony	47	↓7	38
41	Leonard	47	new	46
42	Leroy	47	↑4	63
43	Sidney	46	–	90
44	Alfred	44	↓6	42
45	Lee	44	↑5	78
46	Leo	44	new	48
47	Johnnie	43	↑1	>100
48	Milton	43	↑1	71
49	Raymond	43	new	18
50	Percy	41	↓9	>100

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