Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1917

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1917 were Mary for girls (2,129 babies) and James for boys (2,237). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 57,945 babies born in North Carolina in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1917

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: 16 babies, 30.5× the national rate
Lossie: 20 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Pattie: 47 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Sudie: 24 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Mozelle: 48 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lessie: 71 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Macie: 16 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Vergie: 25 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Novella: 23 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Donnie: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Boys

Worth: 27 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Colon: 15 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Haywood: 32 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Jarvis: 16 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Lacy: 30 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Graham: 24 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Boyce: 15 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Junius: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Linwood: 30 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Carey: 16 babies, 7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	2,129	–	1
2	Annie	834	–	35
3	Margaret	762	–	4
4	Ruth	659	–	5
5	Ruby	547	–	27
6	Helen	517	↑1	2
7	Elizabeth	503	↓1	8
8	Dorothy	460	↑1	3
9	Mildred	446	↓1	6
10	Virginia	437	–	10
11	Louise	398	–	19
12	Ethel	383	↑4	24
13	Hazel	372	↓1	31
14	Frances	367	↑3	9
15	Gladys	341	↓1	23
16	Lillie	327	↑8	86
17	Sarah	326	↑1	52
18	Edna	324	↓5	20
19	Pauline	309	↓4	33
20	Martha	305	↓1	22
21	Thelma	290	–	32
22	Evelyn	280	↓2	11
23	Bessie	263	–	61
24	Alice	260	↑1	13
25	Edith	260	↑1	28
26	Myrtle	259	↑7	58
27	Lucille	253	↑7	29
28	Lillian	248	↓6	15
29	Nellie	234	–	64
30	Beatrice	230	↑6	39
31	Bertha	221	↑6	51
32	Minnie	216	↓2	75
33	Grace	215	↓6	30
34	Hattie	213	↑10	>100
35	Mattie	210	↓7	94
36	Willie	210	new	72
37	Clara	209	↑2	41
38	Eva	208	↑2	54
39	Marie	206	↑11	12
40	Emma	205	↓8	46
41	Jessie	205	–	70
42	Lucy	204	↓7	88
43	Carrie	201	↓5	>100
44	Rosa	195	↑1	>100
45	Pearl	193	↓3	57
46	Maggie	183	new	>100
47	Julia	179	↓1	47
48	Irene	174	↓17	17
49	Mabel	170	new	68
50	Ella	169	new	83

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	James	2,237	–	3
2	William	1,602	–	2
3	John	1,498	–	1
4	Robert	980	–	4
5	George	647	–	6
6	Charles	559	–	7
7	Thomas	500	–	10
8	Joseph	446	↑1	5
9	Willie	406	↓1	31
10	Henry	385	–	15
11	Walter	375	↑1	11
12	Charlie	334	↓1	67
13	Edward	309	↑1	8
14	Paul	304	↓1	13
15	Frank	284	↑1	9
16	David	282	↓1	28
17	Fred	275	↑1	29
18	Clarence	245	↓1	25
19	Roy	232	↑3	33
20	Clyde	229	↑1	64
21	Ralph	226	↓1	21
22	Richard	209	↓3	14
23	Ernest	201	↑10	37
24	Howard	193	↑5	26
25	Joe	191	↓1	35
26	Samuel	189	↓1	42
27	Carl	188	↓1	24
28	Albert	187	↓5	18
29	Arthur	184	↓2	17
30	Raymond	176	–	16
31	Jack	160	–	22
32	Jesse	154	↑2	79
33	Harry	151	↑2	19
34	Harold	146	↑9	12
35	Herbert	142	↑4	40
36	Earl	137	↓4	32
37	Herman	134	↑4	58
38	Lee	126	↑11	85
39	Woodrow	126	↓11	73
40	Marvin	122	↓4	68
41	Eugene	119	↑1	39
42	Jessie	118	↑5	>100
43	Johnnie	118	new	>100
44	Luther	117	–	>100
45	Ray	114	–	74
46	Oscar	112	new	87
47	Claude	111	↓7	98
48	Floyd	109	new	62
49	Leroy	109	↓11	60
50	Lewis	109	new	70

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