Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1912

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1912 were Mary for girls (711 babies) and James for boys (814). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 20,371 babies born in South Carolina in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1912

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

Jannie: 30 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Queen: 22 babies, 9× the national rate
Janie: 78 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Corine: 26 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Estell: 15 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Leila: 27 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Elise: 19 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Rebecca: 93 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Rosa: 137 babies, 5× the national rate
Maggie: 107 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Colie: 21 babies, 45.5× the national rate
Furman: 18 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Isiah: 20 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Coleman: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Booker: 23 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Moses: 25 babies, 6× the national rate
Elijah: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Buster: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Ed: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Rufus: 33 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	711	–	1
2	Annie	328	–	27
3	Elizabeth	227	–	8
4	Ruth	216	↑2	5
5	Louise	205	↓1	17
6	Ethel	166	↓1	18
7	Carrie	155	↑1	82
8	Lillie	150	↑2	67
9	Sarah	146	↓2	41
10	Margaret	141	↑6	4
11	Willie	139	↑6	61
12	Marie	138	↑7	10
13	Bessie	137	–	43
14	Rosa	137	↓3	94
15	Ruby	136	↑5	23
16	Lucille	133	↑6	32
17	Martha	130	↑17	29
18	Mattie	127	↓9	70
19	Bertha	124	↑5	36
20	Viola	113	↓5	52
21	Hattie	112	↓7	90
22	Mamie	112	↑1	95
23	Edna	111	↑2	16
24	Minnie	111	↓3	60
25	Emma	110	↑1	35
26	Helen	107	↑5	2
27	Maggie	107	–	>100
28	Frances	106	↑7	9
29	Julia	106	↑4	44
30	Alice	103	↓2	11
31	Thelma	100	↑5	26
32	Gladys	98	↑10	19
33	Dorothy	97	↑14	3
34	Jessie	95	↑4	65
35	Ida	94	new	45
36	Lillian	94	↓18	14
37	Rebecca	93	↑13	>100
38	Anna	90	↓26	7
39	Ella	89	↓7	69
40	Pearl	88	↓1	54
41	Eva	87	↓11	49
42	Evelyn	83	↓2	13
43	Daisy	80	↓14	>100
44	Mildred	80	↑2	6
45	Beatrice	79	↑3	37
46	Clara	78	new	34
47	Janie	78	new	>100
48	Fannie	75	new	87
49	Gertrude	75	↓12	30
50	Florence	72	new	12

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	814	–	3
2	John	596	–	1
3	William	438	–	2
4	Willie	327	–	22
5	Robert	296	–	4
6	George	251	–	6
7	Henry	213	–	12
8	Thomas	176	–	10
9	Joseph	157	–	5
10	Frank	127	–	9
11	Charles	124	↑2	7
12	Joe	119	–	36
13	David	116	↓2	29
14	Walter	110	↑2	11
15	Fred	98	↑2	26
16	Samuel	97	↓1	30
17	Edward	93	↑2	8
18	Charlie	85	↑2	57
19	Sam	83	↓1	63
20	Richard	80	↑9	19
21	Arthur	78	↓7	15
22	Woodrow	76	new	46
23	Clarence	74	↓1	21
24	Leroy	72	↑1	66
25	Harry	71	↑9	16
26	Ernest	70	↓3	32
27	Paul	70	↓3	14
28	Roy	64	↑8	31
29	Harold	58	↑12	13
30	Albert	57	↓9	17
31	Jack	57	↓4	28
32	Eugene	53	↓6	41
33	Eddie	49	↓2	>100
34	Jessie	48	↑10	>100
35	Julius	48	new	100
36	Andrew	47	↑6	44
37	Jesse	47	↑10	74
38	Lewis	45	–	68
39	Benjamin	43	↓7	67
40	Johnnie	43	↓12	>100
41	Louis	40	↓1	20
42	Luther	40	↓7	>100
43	Ben	39	↓10	>100
44	Herbert	38	↓5	39
45	Marion	38	↑1	>100
46	Carl	37	↑3	24
47	Oscar	36	new	73
48	Clyde	35	↑2	65
49	Daniel	35	new	53
50	Lee	35	↓20	78

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