Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1910

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1910 were Mary for girls (602 babies) and James for boys (556). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 14,982 babies born in South Carolina in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in South Carolina that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Albertha: 15 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Queenie: 15 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Jannie: 34 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Earline: 19 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Janie: 76 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 23 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Rosa: 145 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Maggie: 114 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Eliza: 33 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Geneva: 72 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Mack: 31 babies, 5× the national rate
Moses: 19 babies, 5× the national rate
Booker: 20 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 26 babies, 4× the national rate
Abraham: 22 babies, 4× the national rate
Marion: 32 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Nathaniel: 26 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Isaac: 27 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Julius: 33 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Johnie: 19 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	602	1
2	Annie	305	19
3	Louise	173	20
4	Rosa	145	83
5	Elizabeth	144	7
6	Ruth	144	5
7	Ethel	143	13
8	Bessie	135	37
9	Carrie	131	70
10	Sarah	128	40
11	Mattie	123	60
12	Marie	119	9
13	Hattie	116	73
14	Maggie	114	95
15	Lillie	111	54
16	Bertha	107	33
17	Margaret	101	3
18	Willie	101	56
19	Anna	97	6
20	Mamie	94	86
21	Minnie	93	50
22	Alice	92	10
23	Ella	89	62
24	Frances	88	11
25	Ida	88	47
26	Julia	88	49
27	Lucille	86	31
28	Jessie	85	63
29	Emma	84	34
30	Eva	84	45
31	Helen	83	2
32	Martha	81	28
33	Viola	81	48
34	Lillian	79	14
35	Pearl	78	39
36	Gladys	76	15
37	Janie	76	>100
38	Daisy	72	>100
39	Geneva	72	>100
40	Ruby	71	27
41	Alma	70	61
42	Fannie	67	78
43	Clara	64	32
44	Evelyn	63	17
45	Laura	60	53
46	Cora	58	85
47	Gertrude	58	26
48	Irene	58	21
49	Essie	57	>100
50	Lula	56	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	James	556	2
2	John	390	1
3	William	281	3
4	Willie	256	11
5	George	191	5
6	Robert	187	4
7	Henry	177	10
8	Thomas	110	12
9	Frank	91	8
10	Joseph	91	6
11	Charlie	88	34
12	Edward	84	9
13	Charles	78	7
14	Walter	77	13
15	Joe	75	25
16	David	67	30
17	Fred	66	22
18	Sam	61	40
19	Samuel	56	32
20	Jack	54	23
21	Leroy	53	50
22	Clarence	52	20
23	Richard	52	21
24	Albert	50	14
25	Ernest	50	31
26	Eugene	50	39
27	Arthur	47	17
28	Johnnie	47	74
29	Harry	46	16
30	Paul	45	15
31	Louis	43	24
32	Lee	42	49
33	Benjamin	39	70
34	Ben	34	79
35	Eddie	33	59
36	Herbert	33	41
37	Julius	33	95
38	Andrew	32	42
39	Lewis	32	65
40	Marion	32	>100
41	Mack	31	>100
42	Luther	30	87
43	Roy	30	29
44	Isaac	27	>100
45	Tom	27	82
46	Jessie	26	72
47	Nathaniel	26	>100
48	Roosevelt	26	>100
49	Daniel	24	53
50	Jesse	24	60

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