Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1929

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1929 were Mary for girls (2,666 babies) and James for boys (2,833). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 69,043 babies born in North Carolina in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1929

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: 20 babies, 21.5× the national rate
Sudie: 18 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Pattie: 29 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Doretha: 26 babies, 7× the national rate
Mozelle: 23 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Daphne: 19 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Pansy: 34 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nannie: 61 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Ava: 20 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Betsy: 49 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Worth: 22 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Norwood: 19 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Lacy: 31 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Haywood: 27 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Linwood: 37 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Wade: 71 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Boyce: 20 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Everette: 32 babies, 6× the national rate
Graham: 18 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Junius: 18 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	2,666	–	1
2	Betty	1,325	↑1	2
3	Dorothy	1,095	↓1	3
4	Annie	819	↑1	37
5	Margaret	784	↓1	5
6	Doris	728	↑1	6
7	Helen	638	↓1	4
8	Ruth	569	–	8
9	Mildred	534	–	18
10	Frances	525	–	16
11	Ruby	525	–	36
12	Martha	454	↑2	27
13	Virginia	443	↓1	11
14	Elizabeth	420	↓1	15
15	Evelyn	388	↑3	19
16	Sarah	364	↑1	68
17	Edna	344	↑2	51
18	Louise	333	↓2	31
19	Hazel	331	↓4	64
20	Gladys	323	–	44
21	Alice	291	↑1	21
22	Peggy	289	↑17	70
23	Nancy	277	↑6	32
24	Thelma	265	↓3	41
25	Ethel	245	↓2	56
26	Lillie	245	↓1	>100
27	Lois	243	↓3	17
28	Pauline	241	–	50
29	Clara	231	↑4	65
30	Barbara	228	↑19	7
31	Marie	226	↓1	22
32	Willie	223	↓5	76
33	Rosa	220	↑11	>100
34	Ella	216	↑13	>100
35	Jean	215	–	12
36	Emma	210	↓4	69
37	Edith	198	↓11	59
38	Nellie	194	–	>100
39	Catherine	190	↓5	34
40	Lillian	190	↓4	40
41	Joyce	189	new	23
42	Lucille	187	↓11	57
43	Grace	179	↓3	54
44	Mattie	174	new	>100
45	Irene	173	↑3	29
46	Bessie	172	↓5	>100
47	Elsie	172	new	78
48	Bertha	171	↓11	93
49	Myrtle	171	↓3	>100
50	Carrie	164	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	James	2,833	–	2
2	William	2,016	–	4
3	John	1,531	–	3
4	Robert	1,362	–	1
5	Charles	1,010	–	5
6	George	673	–	8
7	Thomas	609	–	11
8	Willie	546	–	29
9	Joseph	475	–	9
10	Billy	465	↑7	23
11	David	437	↑2	17
12	Jack	426	↓2	14
13	Walter	374	↑3	19
14	Edward	369	↓2	10
15	Herbert	364	↓1	25
16	Paul	352	↓1	13
17	Henry	351	↓6	21
18	Richard	337	–	6
19	Bobby	305	↑15	50
20	Fred	294	↑2	34
21	Ralph	290	↑2	26
22	Joe	281	↑6	30
23	Harold	279	↓4	16
24	Roy	274	–	35
25	Donald	263	↑5	7
26	Charlie	262	↓5	87
27	Clarence	256	↓7	37
28	Frank	254	↓1	12
29	Carl	237	↓4	28
30	Earl	236	↓4	36
31	Clyde	232	↑1	74
32	Howard	231	↓3	31
33	Samuel	221	↓2	53
34	Ernest	212	↑3	43
35	Raymond	188	↓2	15
36	Albert	187	↑2	24
37	Eugene	186	↓2	20
38	Ray	180	↑5	57
39	Jesse	178	↓3	93
40	Kenneth	177	↑5	18
41	Harry	176	↓1	27
42	Herman	156	↑5	75
43	Leroy	143	↑3	51
44	Marvin	143	↓3	46
45	Johnnie	139	↓1	>100
46	Floyd	135	↓4	58
47	Arthur	130	↓8	22
48	Lee	127	new	85
49	Melvin	123	new	49
50	Hubert	122	↓1	>100

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