Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1921

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1921 were Mary for girls (2,811 babies) and James for boys (2,926). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 72,232 babies born in North Carolina in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1921

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

Lossie: 22 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Pattie: 39 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Sudie: 31 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Novella: 35 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Mozelle: 52 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Mittie: 31 babies, 7× the national rate
Queen: 37 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Nannie: 102 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Retha: 35 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Sallie: 120 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Boys

Zeb: 17 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Worth: 23 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Baxter: 17 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Lacy: 39 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Haywood: 38 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Norwood: 20 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Graham: 31 babies, 8× the national rate
June: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Wade: 86 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Linwood: 38 babies, 7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	2,811	–	1
2	Margaret	1,061	↑1	4
3	Annie	935	↓1	36
4	Dorothy	911	↑1	2
5	Ruth	893	↓1	5
6	Helen	792	–	3
7	Mildred	685	–	7
8	Ruby	637	↑2	26
9	Elizabeth	609	–	10
10	Virginia	603	↓2	6
11	Frances	512	–	9
12	Hazel	488	↑1	34
13	Louise	472	↓1	22
14	Edna	438	–	27
15	Martha	428	↑1	21
16	Sarah	408	↑1	54
17	Gladys	386	↑1	24
18	Pauline	385	↑2	37
19	Thelma	379	–	30
20	Evelyn	376	↑1	12
21	Edith	370	↑1	33
22	Ethel	364	↓7	32
23	Doris	349	↑4	13
24	Alice	323	↓1	15
25	Lillian	297	↑3	19
26	Lucille	287	↑3	31
27	Lillie	285	↓3	94
28	Myrtle	279	↑4	73
29	Marie	269	↓4	14
30	Willie	256	↑4	74
31	Mattie	255	↑4	>100
32	Emma	252	↑10	52
33	Bessie	241	↓7	75
34	Irene	239	↑13	18
35	Grace	230	↑2	35
36	Catherine	228	↑5	23
37	Minnie	224	↓6	96
38	Nellie	220	↓8	80
39	Rosa	218	↑1	>100
40	Carrie	215	↓7	>100
41	Clara	209	↓5	45
42	Lois	206	↑8	38
43	Eva	202	–	63
44	Mabel	202	new	85
45	Lucy	200	↓7	93
46	Hattie	198	↓2	>100
47	Beatrice	196	↑2	41
48	Elsie	194	new	55
49	Alma	192	new	78
50	Betty	191	new	8

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	James	2,926	–	4
2	William	2,198	–	3
3	John	1,699	–	1
4	Robert	1,193	–	2
5	George	833	–	6
6	Charles	791	–	5
7	Joseph	567	↑2	7
8	Willie	563	↓1	34
9	Thomas	552	↓1	11
10	Edward	450	↑5	8
11	Walter	438	↓1	15
12	Paul	421	–	14
13	Henry	418	↓2	17
14	David	384	↓1	25
15	Charlie	364	↓1	76
16	Fred	336	↑2	33
17	Richard	315	↑2	10
18	Clarence	295	↓2	28
19	Roy	287	↑1	32
20	Frank	275	↓3	9
21	Joe	268	–	36
22	Ralph	264	–	23
23	Howard	260	–	27
24	Ernest	253	↑3	38
25	Jack	251	↓1	18
26	Samuel	247	↑2	44
27	Arthur	243	↑6	19
28	Warren	239	↑8	24
29	Harry	230	↑2	21
30	Albert	228	↓5	20
31	Carl	228	↓1	30
32	Harold	222	–	12
33	Clyde	220	↓4	69
34	Earl	201	↑1	31
35	Eugene	190	↑4	26
36	Raymond	185	↓10	16
37	Jesse	162	↓3	77
38	Marvin	160	↓1	59
39	Johnnie	154	↑3	>100
40	Claude	152	↑3	96
41	Luther	145	new	>100
42	Herbert	144	↓2	42
43	Herman	141	↑5	64
44	Hubert	141	↑1	>100
45	Jessie	140	↑2	>100
46	Ray	140	↓2	67
47	Lee	126	↓1	86
48	Leroy	125	↓10	55
49	Lawrence	123	new	37
50	Benjamin	117	new	82

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