Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1913

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1913 were Mary for girls (725 babies) and James for boys (910). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,263 babies born in South Carolina in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1913

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: 23 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Elouise: 19 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Jannie: 33 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Janie: 97 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Queen: 20 babies, 8× the national rate
Estell: 15 babies, 8× the national rate
Earline: 18 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 27 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Rosa: 164 babies, 6× the national rate
Eliza: 38 babies, 6× the national rate

Boys

Blease: 19 babies, 49.7× the national rate
Elijah: 28 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Freddie: 21 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Moses: 26 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Cleveland: 20 babies, 6× the national rate
Mack: 33 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Wade: 20 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Johnny: 26 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nathaniel: 33 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Buster: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	725	–	1
2	Annie	348	–	30
3	Elizabeth	250	–	8
4	Louise	236	↑1	17
5	Ruth	218	↓1	5
6	Margaret	171	↑4	4
7	Ethel	169	↓1	20
8	Rosa	164	↑6	>100
9	Sarah	163	–	43
10	Lillie	154	↓2	71
11	Ruby	153	↑4	23
12	Willie	153	↓1	65
13	Helen	147	↑13	2
14	Mattie	143	↑4	75
15	Marie	138	↓3	10
16	Carrie	137	↓9	90
17	Bessie	125	↓4	47
18	Martha	125	↓1	28
19	Edna	124	↑4	18
20	Alice	120	↑10	11
21	Frances	120	↑7	9
22	Hattie	119	↓1	96
23	Dorothy	118	↑10	3
24	Lucille	114	↓8	31
25	Emma	113	–	38
26	Maggie	111	↑1	>100
27	Bertha	110	↓8	39
28	Anna	108	↑10	7
29	Jessie	107	↑5	61
30	Thelma	106	↑1	26
31	Mamie	104	↓9	>100
32	Virginia	104	new	15
33	Evelyn	103	↑9	12
34	Lillian	103	↑2	16
35	Julia	100	↓6	42
36	Minnie	99	↓12	63
37	Janie	97	↑10	>100
38	Viola	96	↓18	52
39	Ella	95	–	70
40	Mildred	94	↑4	6
41	Pearl	93	↓1	55
42	Beatrice	92	↑3	37
43	Gladys	92	↓11	19
44	Lula	88	new	>100
45	Eva	87	↓4	50
46	Inez	82	new	98
47	Sadie	81	new	>100
48	Rebecca	80	↓11	>100
49	Daisy	78	↓6	>100
50	Edith	78	new	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	James	910	–	3
2	John	654	–	1
3	William	530	–	2
4	Willie	361	–	24
5	Robert	298	–	4
6	George	290	–	6
7	Henry	216	–	12
8	Thomas	202	–	10
9	Joseph	173	–	5
10	Charles	157	↑1	7
11	Frank	137	↓1	9
12	David	131	↑1	29
13	Richard	129	↑7	19
14	Walter	116	–	11
15	Samuel	113	↑1	36
16	Joe	106	↓4	37
17	Edward	105	–	8
18	Arthur	103	↑3	17
19	Charlie	103	↓1	62
20	Clarence	97	↑3	21
21	Harry	94	↑4	15
22	Albert	89	↑8	16
23	Ernest	89	↑3	34
24	Fred	89	↓9	27
25	Woodrow	88	↓3	44
26	Sam	85	↓7	65
27	Leroy	83	↓3	63
28	Paul	79	↓1	14
29	Eddie	69	↑4	>100
30	Jack	69	↑1	28
31	Roy	69	↓3	32
32	Eugene	65	–	43
33	Harold	65	↓4	13
34	Herbert	62	↑10	39
35	Marion	56	↑10	>100
36	Louis	54	↑5	20
37	Ben	51	↑6	>100
38	Johnnie	51	↑2	>100
39	Raymond	50	new	18
40	Benjamin	47	↓1	70
41	Lee	46	↑9	78
42	Luther	45	–	>100
43	Clyde	44	↑5	64
44	Lewis	44	↓6	72
45	Andrew	43	↓9	47
46	Jesse	43	↓9	79
47	Marvin	43	new	77
48	Carl	42	↓2	23
49	Earl	42	new	31
50	Jessie	42	↓16	>100

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