Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1911

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1911 were Mary for girls (508 babies) and James for boys (576). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 14,880 babies born in South Carolina in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1911

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: 20 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Jannie: 26 babies, 10× the national rate
Elise: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Janie: 53 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Queen: 16 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Sallie: 58 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Rosa: 109 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Annie: 342 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Maggie: 85 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Roosevelt: 35 babies, 7× the national rate
Jake: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Mack: 25 babies, 5× the national rate
Isaac: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Willie: 274 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Johnny: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Rufus: 23 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Luther: 36 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Johnnie: 41 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Bennie: 20 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	508	–	1
2	Annie	342	–	24
3	Elizabeth	181	↑2	7
4	Louise	163	↓1	19
5	Ethel	158	↑2	15
6	Ruth	140	–	5
7	Sarah	124	↑3	42
8	Carrie	119	↑1	78
9	Mattie	117	↑2	65
10	Lillie	116	↑5	60
11	Rosa	109	↓7	92
12	Anna	108	↑7	6
13	Bessie	101	↓5	40
14	Hattie	101	↓1	86
15	Viola	101	↑18	47
16	Margaret	100	↑1	3
17	Willie	99	↑1	61
18	Lillian	98	↑16	13
19	Marie	97	↓7	9
20	Ruby	96	↑20	22
21	Minnie	93	–	52
22	Lucille	89	↑5	32
23	Mamie	89	↓3	89
24	Bertha	88	↓8	36
25	Edna	88	new	17
26	Emma	88	↑3	35
27	Maggie	85	↓13	>100
28	Alice	83	↓6	11
29	Daisy	82	↑9	>100
30	Eva	82	–	46
31	Helen	81	–	2
32	Ella	79	↓9	63
33	Julia	79	↓7	44
34	Martha	78	↓2	28
35	Frances	75	↓11	10
36	Thelma	73	new	27
37	Gertrude	67	↑10	30
38	Jessie	67	↓10	66
39	Pearl	65	↓4	48
40	Evelyn	62	↑4	16
41	Inez	61	new	99
42	Gladys	60	↓6	18
43	Sallie	58	new	>100
44	Sadie	57	new	>100
45	Laura	56	–	57
46	Mildred	56	new	8
47	Dorothy	55	new	4
48	Beatrice	54	new	37
49	Irene	54	↓1	21
50	Rebecca	54	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	576	–	3
2	John	398	–	1
3	William	343	–	2
4	Willie	274	–	14
5	Robert	200	↑1	5
6	George	179	↓1	4
7	Henry	169	–	11
8	Thomas	118	–	10
9	Joseph	99	↑1	6
10	Frank	88	↓1	8
11	David	78	↑5	27
12	Joe	77	↑3	29
13	Charles	75	–	7
14	Arthur	69	↑13	18
15	Samuel	68	↑4	30
16	Walter	68	↓2	12
17	Fred	67	–	22
18	Sam	67	–	47
19	Edward	63	↓7	9
20	Charlie	61	↓9	45
21	Albert	60	↑3	15
22	Clarence	59	–	23
23	Ernest	58	↑2	32
24	Paul	58	↑6	17
25	Leroy	54	↓4	59
26	Eugene	41	–	43
27	Jack	41	↓7	25
28	Johnnie	41	–	90
29	Richard	41	↓6	20
30	Lee	40	↑2	67
31	Eddie	39	↑4	78
32	Benjamin	37	↑1	64
33	Ben	36	↑1	86
34	Harry	36	↓5	13
35	Luther	36	↑7	100
36	Roy	36	↑7	31
37	Roosevelt	35	↑11	>100
38	Lewis	34	↑1	66
39	Herbert	33	↓3	41
40	Louis	31	↓9	21
41	Harold	30	new	16
42	Andrew	29	↓4	42
43	Isaac	29	↑1	>100
44	Jessie	27	↑2	79
45	Theodore	27	new	56
46	Marion	26	↓6	>100
47	Jesse	25	↑3	72
48	Mack	25	↓7	>100
49	Carl	24	new	26
50	Clyde	23	new	61

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