Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1914

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1914 were Mary for girls (908 babies) and James for boys (1,164). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 28,193 babies born in South Carolina in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1914

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

Elease: 21 babies, 22.4× the national rate
Corrie: 16 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Jannie: 38 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Queen: 29 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Janie: 87 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Earline: 26 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Estell: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lizzie: 71 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Corine: 31 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Leila: 32 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Colie: 15 babies, 42× the national rate
Furman: 22 babies, 27× the national rate
Boyce: 15 babies, 14× the national rate
Odell: 31 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Cleveland: 36 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Isiah: 17 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Moses: 39 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 35 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Mack: 43 babies, 6× the national rate
Buster: 22 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	908	–	1
2	Annie	420	–	33
3	Ruth	285	↑2	5
4	Louise	276	–	17
5	Elizabeth	266	↓2	8
6	Margaret	241	–	4
7	Sarah	228	↑2	47
8	Helen	206	↑5	2
9	Ethel	195	↓2	21
10	Ruby	189	↑1	24
11	Willie	188	↑1	66
12	Frances	176	↑9	9
13	Carrie	175	↑3	91
14	Lillie	175	↓4	74
15	Lucille	171	↑9	30
16	Mattie	168	↓2	78
17	Rosa	166	↓9	>100
18	Edna	163	↑1	19
19	Martha	162	↓1	27
20	Marie	154	↓5	10
21	Alice	151	↓1	12
22	Bessie	149	↓5	55
23	Hattie	149	↓1	97
24	Anna	147	↑4	6
25	Dorothy	145	↓2	3
26	Emma	139	↓1	39
27	Jessie	135	↑2	64
28	Gladys	132	↑15	20
29	Julia	131	↑6	42
30	Evelyn	128	↑3	11
31	Ida	128	new	49
32	Mamie	128	↓1	>100
33	Eva	120	↑12	52
34	Minnie	120	↑2	67
35	Virginia	120	↓3	14
36	Viola	119	↑2	57
37	Ella	116	↑2	72
38	Mildred	116	↑2	7
39	Grace	113	new	25
40	Lillian	111	↓6	16
41	Bertha	109	↓14	41
42	Beatrice	105	–	38
43	Maggie	104	↓17	>100
44	Pearl	103	↓3	56
45	Thelma	102	↓15	26
46	Lula	98	↓2	>100
47	Rebecca	96	↑1	>100
48	Geneva	88	new	>100
49	Pauline	88	new	34
50	Janie	87	↓13	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	James	1,164	–	3
2	John	777	–	1
3	William	719	–	2
4	Willie	492	–	25
5	Robert	440	–	4
6	George	390	–	6
7	Henry	336	–	12
8	Thomas	262	–	11
9	Joseph	229	–	5
10	Charles	201	–	7
11	Edward	197	↑6	8
12	Frank	181	↓1	9
13	David	166	↓1	29
14	Walter	163	–	10
15	Samuel	143	–	36
16	Fred	126	↑8	28
17	Albert	124	↑5	15
18	Arthur	119	–	18
19	Joe	119	↓3	34
20	Leroy	118	↑7	60
21	Richard	116	↓8	17
22	Sam	115	↑4	67
23	Clarence	113	↓3	22
24	Woodrow	109	↑1	71
25	Charlie	105	↓6	65
26	Harry	105	↓5	19
27	Ernest	94	↓4	38
28	Herbert	91	↑6	42
29	Paul	91	↓1	13
30	Eugene	90	↑2	43
31	Harold	87	↑2	14
32	Marion	87	↑3	>100
33	Eddie	75	↓4	>100
34	Jack	75	↓4	27
35	Johnnie	75	↑3	>100
36	Benjamin	74	↑4	70
37	Luther	69	↑5	>100
38	Roy	67	↓7	32
39	Lewis	66	↑5	72
40	Daniel	65	new	55
41	Jessie	62	↑9	>100
42	Andrew	60	↑3	44
43	Clyde	59	–	63
44	Ben	58	↓7	>100
45	Louis	58	↓9	20
46	Lawrence	54	new	35
47	Ralph	50	new	21
48	Howard	48	new	26
49	Carl	47	↓1	24
50	Jesse	46	↓4	82

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