Popular baby names in Louisiana, 1941

The most popular baby names in Louisiana in 1941 were Mary for girls (1,555 babies) and James for boys (1,239). Social Security records list 49,080 babies born in Louisiana in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Louisiana in 1941

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

Girls

Joycelyn: 27 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Gaynell: 17 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Mercedes: 17 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Earline: 50 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Doretha: 18 babies, 6× the national rate
Bernadine: 38 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Wilda: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Irma: 77 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Ora: 41 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Elouise: 18 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Boys

Antoine: 16 babies, 33.6× the national rate
Murphy: 28 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Emile: 38 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Huey: 33 babies, 17× the national rate
Felton: 33 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Isiah: 24 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Lionel: 58 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Wilton: 21 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Rogers: 20 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Hilton: 16 babies, 8.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Louisiana, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Mary	1,555	–	1
2	Barbara	761	–	2
3	Betty	638	–	7
4	Linda	466	↑5	5
5	Patricia	466	↑1	3
6	Dorothy	455	↓2	14
7	Shirley	452	↓2	10
8	Gloria	406	↓1	26
9	Carolyn	391	↓1	11
10	Joyce	298	↑1	13
11	Margaret	250	↑1	12
12	Helen	234	↓2	24
13	Marie	224	↑10	42
14	Sandra	223	↑5	9
15	Martha	219	↑2	25
16	Brenda	212	↑8	41
17	Elizabeth	212	↑3	21
18	Carol	200	↑3	4
19	Geraldine	200	↓5	45
20	Doris	197	↓7	38
21	Alice	195	↓6	34
22	Rose	193	↓6	49
23	Patsy	192	↑7	52
24	Beverly	184	↑4	29
25	Annie	182	↓7	59
26	Frances	182	↓4	31
27	Judy	178	↑10	16
28	Ruby	166	↑10	69
29	Peggy	161	↑2	39
30	Virginia	158	↓5	23
31	Judith	152	↑10	6
32	Audrey	147	↓6	>100
33	Mildred	141	↑9	64
34	Catherine	139	↑13	51
35	Sylvia	137	↓2	65
36	Ethel	135	–	>100
37	Jo	132	↑2	66
38	Evelyn	131	↓11	50
39	Nancy	131	↑6	8
40	Ruth	131	↑4	28
41	Willie	131	↓7	>100
42	Anna	128	↓2	56
43	Janice	128	–	22
44	Lois	126	↑5	43
45	Joan	125	↓10	17
46	Dolores	119	new	57
47	Elaine	118	new	44
48	Lillie	115	new	>100
49	Ann	112	new	37
50	Rita	111	new	63

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	James	1,239	–	1
2	John	1,088	–	3
3	Robert	866	–	2
4	Joseph	774	↑1	12
5	Charles	767	↓1	6
6	William	560	–	4
7	Donald	381	↑1	10
8	George	369	↑1	13
9	Willie	368	↓2	36
10	Jerry	362	↑1	14
11	Thomas	349	↑1	8
12	Richard	335	↓2	5
13	Edward	321	–	17
14	Ronald	318	↑9	9
15	David	315	↑2	7
16	Henry	300	↓1	28
17	Larry	252	↓1	11
18	Gerald	240	↑11	20
19	Paul	223	↑3	18
20	Frank	221	↓2	21
21	Raymond	217	↓1	22
22	Louis	216	↓8	50
23	Roy	211	↑11	39
24	Kenneth	203	↓5	15
25	Bobby	198	↑2	35
26	Billy	184	↓5	27
27	Earl	176	↓3	58
28	Albert	174	↓2	40
29	Harold	169	↑2	24
30	Johnny	168	–	55
31	Lawrence	168	↑2	34
32	Clarence	167	↓4	62
33	Walter	167	↓8	26
34	Arthur	161	↑4	33
35	Alvin	157	↑4	>100
36	Michael	157	new	16
37	Leroy	155	↓1	67
38	Melvin	144	↓1	56
39	Joe	138	↓7	30
40	Ernest	128	↑3	61
41	Eugene	125	↓6	42
42	Harry	125	new	48
43	Carl	124	new	29
44	Eddie	119	↑4	78
45	Samuel	119	↑5	65
46	Herman	118	↑3	>100
47	Fred	115	new	43
48	Jimmy	115	↓8	45
49	Daniel	114	↓3	31
50	Herbert	112	↓8	76

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