Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1913

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1913 were Mary for girls (1,180 babies) and James for boys (1,252). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 32,788 babies born in North Carolina in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1913

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: 21 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Novella: 18 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Mozelle: 33 babies, 8× the national rate
Hettie: 25 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Bettie: 45 babies, 7× the national rate
Clyde: 18 babies, 7× the national rate
Sudie: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Nannie: 66 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Lessie: 39 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Lettie: 19 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Worth: 19 babies, 19× the national rate
Haywood: 20 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Junius: 16 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Dock: 15 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Linwood: 19 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Wade: 37 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Jasper: 49 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Coy: 18 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Odell: 23 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Dewey: 26 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	1,180	–	1
2	Annie	521	–	30
3	Ruth	355	–	5
4	Margaret	354	–	4
5	Elizabeth	306	–	8
6	Ruby	304	–	23
7	Ethel	248	–	20
8	Mildred	248	–	6
9	Louise	237	–	17
10	Helen	226	–	2
11	Bessie	206	↑2	47
12	Sarah	201	↑6	43
13	Virginia	192	↓2	15
14	Dorothy	186	↑8	3
15	Gladys	186	↓3	19
16	Lillian	179	↑5	16
17	Edna	178	↓3	18
18	Hazel	170	↓3	27
19	Martha	168	↑1	28
20	Hattie	167	↑7	96
21	Lillie	166	↓5	71
22	Frances	164	↑13	9
23	Thelma	161	↓6	26
24	Nellie	159	↑14	58
25	Alice	158	↓6	11
26	Grace	156	↑7	25
27	Myrtle	149	↓2	53
28	Bertha	147	↑3	39
29	Pauline	146	↑5	35
30	Evelyn	145	new	12
31	Pearl	144	↑1	55
32	Viola	139	↑9	52
33	Eva	138	↑10	50
34	Lucille	138	↑3	31
35	Beatrice	134	↑1	37
36	Lucy	132	↑4	77
37	Minnie	132	↓13	63
38	Rosa	130	↑8	>100
39	Carrie	125	↓11	90
40	Mamie	124	↑9	>100
41	Willie	124	new	65
42	Jessie	122	↑8	61
43	Irene	121	↑1	21
44	Emma	120	↓18	38
45	Mattie	119	↓16	75
46	Clara	118	↓16	36
47	Maggie	118	↓24	>100
48	Mabel	116	new	56
49	Lena	111	new	73
50	Fannie	109	↓11	91

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	James	1,252	–	3
2	William	974	–	2
3	John	854	–	1
4	Robert	476	–	4
5	George	390	–	6
6	Willie	296	↑1	24
7	Charles	292	↑2	7
8	Thomas	269	↓2	10
9	Joseph	259	↑1	5
10	Henry	252	↓2	12
11	Walter	208	↑1	11
12	Paul	199	↑4	14
13	Charlie	181	↓2	62
14	Frank	175	↑1	9
15	Edward	169	↓1	8
16	David	163	↑2	29
17	Woodrow	147	↓4	44
18	Clarence	137	↑1	21
19	Fred	135	↓2	27
20	Roy	129	–	32
21	Joe	125	↑7	37
22	Ernest	122	↑1	34
23	Samuel	112	↓1	36
24	Ralph	107	↑2	22
25	Carl	106	↑7	23
26	Howard	105	↓2	26
27	Richard	105	↓2	19
28	Albert	104	↑3	16
29	Clyde	103	–	64
30	Raymond	103	↓3	18
31	Arthur	98	↓10	17
32	Jack	93	↓2	28
33	Herbert	81	↑12	39
34	Earl	80	↑1	31
35	Eugene	78	new	43
36	Harry	75	↑2	15
37	Jesse	75	↓4	79
38	Claude	70	↑1	88
39	Johnnie	67	↑10	>100
40	Herman	66	↑2	53
41	Hubert	64	new	>100
42	Floyd	62	↓5	58
43	Jessie	61	↓7	>100
44	Oscar	60	↓3	76
45	Lee	57	new	78
46	Ray	57	new	73
47	Marvin	56	new	77
48	Harold	55	new	13
49	Leroy	55	↓15	63
50	Luther	55	↓6	>100

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