Popular baby names in North Carolina, 1943

The most popular baby names in North Carolina in 1943 were Mary for girls (2,447 babies) and James for boys (3,624). Social Security records list 86,600 babies born in North Carolina in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Carolina in 1943

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

Clementine: 36 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Pattie: 31 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Nannie: 34 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Delois: 44 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Shelby: 85 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Queen: 43 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Peggie: 28 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Hilda: 99 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Bettie: 108 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Mamie: 85 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Haywood: 41 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Lacy: 30 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Linwood: 71 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Thurman: 61 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Everette: 25 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Connie: 26 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Wilbert: 93 babies, 5× the national rate
Sandy: 22 babies, 5× the national rate
Wade: 60 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Odell: 32 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Carolina, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	2,447	–	1
2	Linda	1,734	–	4
3	Barbara	1,359	–	2
4	Betty	1,262	–	10
5	Brenda	1,053	–	35
6	Patricia	999	↑1	3
7	Carolyn	995	↓1	11
8	Shirley	860	–	12
9	Nancy	801	–	9
10	Judy	751	↑3	13
11	Margaret	641	–	14
12	Dorothy	630	↓2	19
13	Joyce	608	↓1	16
14	Martha	556	↑2	29
15	Annie	544	↓1	69
16	Peggy	519	↓1	41
17	Sandra	518	↑3	6
18	Doris	511	↓1	40
19	Frances	464	–	31
20	Elizabeth	463	↓2	23
21	Carol	414	↑4	5
22	Judith	410	↑2	7
23	Helen	387	↓2	28
24	Virginia	364	↓1	25
25	Alice	359	↓3	38
26	Gloria	323	↑6	30
27	Rebecca	323	↓1	87
28	Sarah	318	↓1	71
29	Janice	314	↑1	26
30	Phyllis	300	↑4	39
31	Patsy	262	↓3	61
32	Ruth	261	↓3	33
33	Ruby	253	↑4	82
34	Edna	252	↑4	>100
35	Ann	239	–	37
36	Glenda	235	↑11	83
37	Sylvia	232	↓4	77
38	Mildred	225	↓2	76
39	Evelyn	212	↓8	53
40	Jean	211	↓1	36
41	Lois	211	–	43
42	Joan	198	↑1	21
43	Jo	190	↑5	63
44	Julia	185	↑1	95
45	Janet	184	↓3	20
46	Wanda	183	–	56
47	Bonnie	179	new	34
48	Jane	179	↑1	44
49	Geraldine	168	↓9	51
50	Hazel	165	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	James	3,624	–	1
2	William	2,224	–	4
3	Robert	1,824	–	2
4	John	1,659	–	3
5	Charles	1,414	–	7
6	Larry	919	↑2	12
7	David	907	↑2	6
8	Jerry	906	↓2	17
9	Thomas	884	↓2	8
10	George	732	–	14
11	Richard	711	–	5
12	Bobby	683	–	46
13	Donald	650	–	11
14	Joseph	571	↑2	13
15	Willie	554	↓1	36
16	Kenneth	547	↑1	15
17	Billy	481	↓2	37
18	Jimmy	459	–	42
19	Ronald	456	↑1	9
20	Johnny	422	↑2	52
21	Edward	394	–	18
22	Walter	383	↑2	26
23	Roy	376	↑4	38
24	Henry	355	↑1	31
25	Harold	337	↑3	27
26	Joe	314	–	35
27	Paul	306	↓4	19
28	Douglas	289	↓9	28
29	Michael	285	↑15	10
30	Roger	283	↑18	24
31	Carl	266	↑6	33
32	Samuel	249	↓2	62
33	Clarence	244	↓4	68
34	Raymond	240	–	22
35	Ralph	230	↓3	40
36	Fred	229	↑4	45
37	Frank	217	↓6	21
38	Howard	214	↑5	48
39	Wayne	206	↓1	41
40	Harry	204	↑5	50
41	Jesse	200	↑8	>100
42	Earl	199	↓1	60
43	Charlie	194	↓8	>100
44	Gary	194	new	16
45	Tommy	194	↓12	77
46	Jack	192	↓10	34
47	Ernest	191	↓8	61
48	Ronnie	189	new	71
49	Melvin	184	↑1	63
50	Leroy	179	new	74

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