Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1933

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1933 were Mary for girls (2,388 babies) and James for boys (2,614). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 67,315 babies born in North Carolina in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1933

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: 25 babies, 22.9× the national rate
Pattie: 44 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Nannie: 69 babies, 7× the national rate
Pansy: 37 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Queen: 43 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Magdalene: 21 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Lettie: 19 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Doretha: 20 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Peggie: 25 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Maggie: 97 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Raeford: 17 babies, 30.1× the national rate
Zeb: 19 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Lenwood: 22 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Haywood: 37 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Lynwood: 20 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Lacy: 26 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Linwood: 51 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Shelton: 19 babies, 8× the national rate
Graham: 23 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Everette: 32 babies, 6.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	2,388	–	1
2	Betty	1,618	–	2
3	Dorothy	883	–	4
4	Barbara	729	↑3	3
5	Annie	726	↓1	37
6	Doris	717	↓1	10
7	Margaret	621	↓1	7
8	Peggy	598	–	36
9	Helen	528	–	8
10	Nancy	480	–	11
11	Frances	479	↑2	18
12	Ruth	441	↑2	13
13	Martha	426	↑4	27
14	Ruby	412	↓3	43
15	Mildred	407	↓3	32
16	Elizabeth	393	–	17
17	Joyce	381	↑1	12
18	Virginia	334	↓3	15
19	Sarah	330	↑1	58
20	Evelyn	313	↓1	30
21	Edna	280	↑4	55
22	Shirley	275	↑5	9
23	Alice	270	↓1	22
24	Jean	261	↓1	14
25	Carolyn	246	↑10	40
26	Thelma	242	–	57
27	Hazel	238	↓3	82
28	Lois	233	–	19
29	Gladys	230	–	60
30	Emma	221	↑1	75
31	Clara	217	↓1	67
32	Louise	215	↓11	39
33	Patricia	207	↑15	6
34	Rosa	181	↑9	>100
35	Ethel	180	↑12	71
36	Edith	178	↓4	80
37	Pauline	175	↑7	64
38	Nellie	172	new	>100
39	Lillie	171	↓5	>100
40	Willie	169	↓7	93
41	Lillian	167	new	51
42	Margie	165	↓3	95
43	Bessie	164	↑2	>100
44	Joan	164	↑2	5
45	Minnie	163	↓4	>100
46	Patsy	158	new	65
47	Marie	156	↓7	33
48	Norma	156	new	23
49	Geraldine	155	↓13	42
50	Ann	154	↓12	34

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	James	2,614	–	2
2	William	1,835	–	4
3	Robert	1,450	–	1
4	John	1,373	–	3
5	Charles	1,155	–	6
6	Bobby	705	↑1	26
7	Billy	616	↑2	20
8	George	607	↓2	8
9	Thomas	552	↓1	10
10	Willie	511	–	32
11	David	462	–	13
12	Donald	439	↑2	7
13	Richard	423	–	5
14	Joseph	385	↓2	9
15	Harold	366	↑5	18
16	Jack	355	–	17
17	Henry	337	↑1	24
18	Edward	323	↓3	11
19	Franklin	309	↑18	33
20	Walter	298	↓1	21
21	Joe	297	–	27
22	Paul	291	↓5	14
23	Kenneth	286	↑6	15
24	Frank	274	↑1	16
25	Fred	247	↓2	34
26	Charlie	243	–	95
27	Roy	242	↓5	39
28	Carl	231	↓4	28
29	Ralph	225	↓1	29
30	Jimmy	224	↑17	64
31	Clarence	220	↓4	43
32	Jerry	212	↑9	31
33	Howard	204	↑1	36
34	Earl	193	↓2	41
35	Ernest	184	↓2	50
36	Samuel	181	↓5	61
37	Eugene	180	↓2	23
38	Raymond	179	↓8	19
39	Ray	174	–	62
40	Albert	172	↓4	30
41	Clyde	168	↓1	87
42	Johnny	161	↑2	90
43	Jesse	148	↓1	100
44	Leroy	148	↑4	56
45	Arthur	145	↓7	25
46	Herbert	142	↓3	49
47	Marvin	142	↑2	44
48	Melvin	142	↓3	51
49	Harry	135	↓3	35
50	Johnnie	134	–	>100

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