Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1911

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1911 were Mary for girls (838 babies) and James for boys (690). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,864 babies born in North Carolina in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1911

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: 20 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Macie: 17 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Bettie: 31 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Retha: 15 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Lessie: 40 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Nannie: 48 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Maggie: 113 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Kate: 30 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Sallie: 67 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Odessa: 24 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Odell: 18 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Wiley: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Jasper: 23 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Garland: 17 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Claud: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Grady: 25 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lonnie: 30 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Rufus: 28 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Charlie: 113 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Luther: 42 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	838	–	1
2	Annie	373	–	24
3	Ruth	227	–	5
4	Elizabeth	208	↑1	7
5	Ruby	188	↑4	22
6	Margaret	185	–	3
7	Ethel	182	↓3	15
8	Louise	170	↑3	19
9	Lillie	156	↓2	60
10	Bessie	147	↓2	40
11	Edna	134	↑9	17
12	Helen	132	↑1	2
13	Gladys	131	↑10	18
14	Sarah	130	↓4	42
15	Bertha	129	↑3	36
16	Lillian	129	↑1	13
17	Martha	128	↓1	28
18	Hazel	123	↑16	25
19	Mattie	123	↓5	65
20	Thelma	122	↑5	27
21	Mildred	120	↑3	8
22	Hattie	119	↑6	86
23	Virginia	114	↑4	26
24	Carrie	113	↓5	78
25	Maggie	113	↑4	>100
26	Nellie	113	↑6	54
27	Alice	112	↓5	11
28	Pauline	112	↑20	38
29	Rosa	109	↑9	92
30	Myrtle	107	↓9	50
31	Dorothy	106	↑5	4
32	Pearl	103	↓6	48
33	Minnie	102	↓21	52
34	Frances	100	↑3	10
35	Lucy	98	↓4	77
36	Grace	96	↑3	23
37	Mamie	96	↓2	89
38	Viola	96	new	47
39	Eva	94	↓24	46
40	Clara	92	↓7	33
41	Emma	89	↓11	35
42	Blanche	87	new	75
43	Beatrice	85	↑3	37
44	Anna	83	new	6
45	Willie	83	–	61
46	Ella	80	new	63
47	Fannie	80	new	88
48	Lucille	80	↓7	32
49	Ida	78	↓7	45
50	Jessie	78	↓3	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	690	–	3
2	John	477	↑1	1
3	William	470	↓1	2
4	Robert	275	–	5
5	George	214	–	4
6	Willie	209	–	14
7	Charles	140	↑2	7
8	Henry	133	↓1	11
9	Thomas	127	↓1	10
10	Charlie	113	–	45
11	Joseph	111	–	6
12	Walter	110	–	12
13	Frank	98	–	8
14	Fred	77	↑4	22
15	Joe	75	–	29
16	Samuel	64	↑8	30
17	Clarence	62	↑5	23
18	Paul	62	↓1	17
19	Edward	61	↓3	9
20	Jack	60	↑14	25
21	Roy	58	↑2	31
22	David	57	↓8	27
23	Ernest	56	↓2	32
24	Raymond	56	↓5	19
25	Albert	55	↑7	15
26	Harry	55	↑22	13
27	Clyde	54	↑13	61
28	Arthur	51	↓8	18
29	Howard	50	↓3	28
30	Leroy	50	↑3	59
31	Jesse	49	↓4	72
32	Jessie	49	↑4	79
33	Richard	46	↓5	20
34	Herbert	44	↓9	41
35	Lee	42	↑4	67
36	Luther	42	↓1	100
37	Johnnie	40	↓6	90
38	Herman	39	↑11	49
39	Ralph	38	↑3	24
40	Carl	35	↓10	26
41	Daniel	34	↓4	53
42	Louis	34	new	21
43	Sam	34	↓14	47
44	Claude	33	new	87
45	Eugene	33	↓4	43
46	Earl	32	↓1	34
47	Floyd	31	↓9	57
48	Hubert	31	new	>100
49	Eddie	30	new	78
50	Lonnie	30	↓3	>100

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