Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1910

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1910 were Mary for girls (837 babies) and James for boys (612). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,074 babies born in North Carolina in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1910

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

Girls

Pattie: 17 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Sudie: 17 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Lessie: 39 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Bettie: 25 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Lettie: 15 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Polly: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Sallie: 73 babies, 4× the national rate
Flossie: 49 babies, 4× the national rate
Nannie: 41 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Kate: 24 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Odell: 16 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Garland: 15 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Grady: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Lonnie: 31 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Moses: 17 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Wilbert: 17 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Charlie: 121 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Earnest: 27 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Percy: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Mack: 22 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	837	1
2	Annie	401	19
3	Ruth	235	5
4	Ethel	199	13
5	Elizabeth	191	7
6	Margaret	171	3
7	Lillie	167	54
8	Bessie	163	37
9	Ruby	139	27
10	Sarah	139	40
11	Louise	137	20
12	Minnie	131	50
13	Helen	129	2
14	Mattie	128	60
15	Eva	126	45
16	Martha	126	28
17	Lillian	125	14
18	Bertha	124	33
19	Carrie	123	70
20	Edna	123	18
21	Myrtle	123	43
22	Alice	118	10
23	Gladys	116	15
24	Mildred	116	8
25	Thelma	116	25
26	Pearl	114	39
27	Virginia	113	29
28	Hattie	107	73
29	Maggie	106	95
30	Emma	104	34
31	Lucy	102	75
32	Nellie	98	51
33	Clara	95	32
34	Hazel	95	24
35	Mamie	95	86
36	Dorothy	94	4
37	Frances	94	11
38	Rosa	94	83
39	Grace	93	23
40	Marie	92	9
41	Lucille	90	31
42	Ida	89	47
43	Lula	88	93
44	Irene	87	21
45	Willie	87	56
46	Beatrice	85	36
47	Jessie	85	63
48	Pauline	84	42
49	Beulah	83	82
50	Cora	83	85

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	James	612	2
2	William	452	3
3	John	413	1
4	Robert	240	4
5	George	215	5
6	Willie	210	11
7	Henry	140	10
8	Thomas	130	12
9	Charles	127	7
10	Charlie	121	34
11	Joseph	118	6
12	Walter	98	13
13	Frank	87	8
14	David	78	30
15	Joe	72	25
16	Edward	71	9
17	Paul	61	15
18	Fred	60	22
19	Raymond	59	19
20	Arthur	57	17
21	Ernest	56	31
22	Clarence	54	20
23	Roy	53	29
24	Samuel	49	32
25	Herbert	47	41
26	Howard	46	27
27	Jesse	46	60
28	Richard	45	21
29	Sam	45	40
30	Carl	44	26
31	Johnnie	42	74
32	Albert	41	14
33	Leroy	39	50
34	Jack	37	23
35	Luther	36	87
36	Jessie	35	72
37	Daniel	34	53
38	Floyd	33	55
39	Lee	33	49
40	Clyde	32	57
41	Eugene	32	39
42	Ralph	32	28
43	Theodore	32	54
44	Andrew	31	42
45	Earl	31	33
46	Harvey	31	89
47	Lonnie	31	>100
48	Harry	30	16
49	Herman	30	52
50	Earnest	27	>100

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