Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1912

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1912 were Mary for girls (1,086 babies) and James for boys (1,092). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 29,246 babies born in North Carolina in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1912

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

Johnsie: 17 babies, 29.3× the national rate
Lossie: 15 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Pattie: 30 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Sudie: 24 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Bettie: 42 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Novella: 16 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Nannie: 64 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Maggie: 146 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Mozelle: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Addie: 77 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Worth: 15 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Lacy: 19 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Haywood: 17 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Dock: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Jasper: 32 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Coy: 17 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Thurman: 23 babies, 6× the national rate
Lonnie: 53 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Garland: 23 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Grady: 39 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	1,086	–	1
2	Annie	455	–	27
3	Ruth	313	–	5
4	Margaret	297	↑2	4
5	Elizabeth	278	↓1	8
6	Ruby	258	↓1	23
7	Ethel	227	–	18
8	Mildred	204	↑13	6
9	Louise	201	↓1	17
10	Helen	195	↑2	2
11	Virginia	184	↑12	20
12	Gladys	181	↑1	19
13	Bessie	180	↓3	43
14	Edna	173	↓3	16
15	Hazel	173	↑3	25
16	Lillie	172	↓7	67
17	Thelma	169	↑3	26
18	Sarah	168	↓4	41
19	Alice	163	↑8	11
20	Martha	155	↓3	29
21	Lillian	153	↓5	14
22	Dorothy	152	↑9	3
23	Maggie	146	↑2	>100
24	Minnie	142	↑9	60
25	Myrtle	140	↑5	50
26	Emma	138	↑15	35
27	Hattie	136	↓5	90
28	Carrie	135	↓4	82
29	Mattie	134	↓10	70
30	Clara	132	↑10	34
31	Bertha	131	↓16	36
32	Pearl	129	–	54
33	Grace	128	↑3	24
34	Pauline	128	↓6	38
35	Frances	124	↓1	9
36	Beatrice	123	↑7	37
37	Lucille	123	↑11	32
38	Nellie	121	↓12	59
39	Fannie	119	↑8	87
40	Lucy	117	↓5	78
41	Viola	117	↓3	52
42	Alma	114	new	62
43	Eva	114	↓4	49
44	Irene	113	new	22
45	Beulah	112	new	80
46	Rosa	112	↓17	94
47	Ella	109	↓1	69
48	Cora	107	new	98
49	Mamie	107	↓12	95
50	Jessie	105	–	65

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	1,092	–	3
2	William	801	↑1	2
3	John	747	↓1	1
4	Robert	418	–	4
5	George	339	–	6
6	Thomas	268	↑3	10
7	Willie	259	↓1	22
8	Henry	223	–	12
9	Charles	210	↓2	7
10	Joseph	196	↑1	5
11	Charlie	181	↓1	57
12	Walter	177	–	11
13	Woodrow	172	new	46
14	Edward	142	↑5	8
15	Frank	141	↓2	9
16	Paul	126	↑2	14
17	Fred	124	↓3	26
18	David	122	↑4	29
19	Clarence	121	↓2	21
20	Roy	115	↑1	31
21	Arthur	104	↑7	15
22	Samuel	104	↓6	30
23	Ernest	103	–	32
24	Howard	101	↑5	25
25	Richard	96	↑8	19
26	Ralph	94	↑13	23
27	Raymond	92	↓3	18
28	Joe	89	↓13	36
29	Clyde	88	↓2	65
30	Jack	78	↓10	28
31	Albert	75	↓6	17
32	Carl	75	↑8	24
33	Jesse	70	↓2	74
34	Leroy	69	↓4	66
35	Earl	63	↑11	34
36	Jessie	63	↓4	>100
37	Floyd	60	↑10	59
38	Harry	59	↓12	16
39	Claude	58	↑5	89
40	Louis	58	↑2	20
41	Oscar	57	new	73
42	Herman	56	↓4	50
43	Lester	56	new	58
44	Luther	56	↓8	>100
45	Herbert	54	↓11	39
46	Lonnie	53	↑4	>100
47	Benjamin	52	new	67
48	Lewis	52	new	68
49	Johnnie	51	↓12	>100
50	Theodore	51	new	52

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