Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1915

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1915 were Mary for girls (1,098 babies) and James for boys (1,414). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 32,589 babies born in South Carolina in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1915

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: 25 babies, 32.7× the national rate
Jannie: 60 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Albertha: 25 babies, 15× the national rate
Janie: 105 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Emmie: 15 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Elouise: 20 babies, 10× the national rate
Rosalee: 17 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Estell: 19 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Queen: 18 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Earline: 20 babies, 7.1× the national rate

Boys

Blease: 15 babies, 49.6× the national rate
Furman: 17 babies, 24.5× the national rate
Gary: 21 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Hazel: 17 babies, 14× the national rate
Sammie: 34 babies, 12× the national rate
Isiah: 16 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Isaiah: 15 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Moses: 39 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Lucius: 16 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 36 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	1,098	–	1
2	Annie	498	–	36
3	Ruth	345	–	5
4	Louise	321	–	18
5	Elizabeth	312	–	8
6	Margaret	285	–	4
7	Sarah	263	–	51
8	Ruby	262	↑2	24
9	Frances	243	↑3	9
10	Lillie	220	↑4	84
11	Carrie	210	↑2	>100
12	Helen	210	↓4	2
13	Dorothy	204	↑12	3
14	Willie	199	↓3	72
15	Rosa	198	↑2	>100
16	Ethel	190	↓7	23
17	Hattie	184	↑6	>100
18	Martha	181	↑1	25
19	Mattie	180	↓3	91
20	Bessie	164	↑2	57
21	Evelyn	164	↑9	10
22	Julia	162	↑7	44
23	Alice	161	↓2	13
24	Edna	161	↓6	20
25	Emma	155	↑1	40
26	Gladys	153	↑2	21
27	Anna	152	↓3	7
28	Maggie	152	↑15	>100
29	Lucille	151	↓14	29
30	Virginia	148	↑5	12
31	Viola	146	↑5	59
32	Mildred	145	↑6	6
33	Lillian	143	↑7	15
34	Bertha	141	↑7	46
35	Mamie	140	↓3	>100
36	Marie	140	↓16	11
37	Jessie	138	↓10	66
38	Minnie	138	↓4	68
39	Grace	133	–	27
40	Thelma	132	↑5	30
41	Beatrice	129	↑1	37
42	Geneva	128	↑6	>100
43	Rebecca	128	↑4	>100
44	Edith	123	new	31
45	Sara	118	new	>100
46	Ida	111	↓15	54
47	Janie	105	↑3	>100
48	Fannie	102	new	>100
49	Daisy	101	new	>100
50	Lula	101	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	James	1,414	–	3
2	John	953	–	1
3	William	827	–	2
4	Willie	555	–	30
5	Robert	509	–	4
6	George	416	–	6
7	Thomas	346	↑1	10
8	Henry	345	↓1	14
9	Joseph	246	–	5
10	Charles	241	–	7
11	Walter	192	↑3	11
12	Frank	186	–	9
13	Edward	183	↓2	8
14	David	182	↓1	31
15	Joe	164	↑4	38
16	Fred	155	–	26
17	Samuel	155	↓2	39
18	Arthur	149	–	18
19	Clarence	136	↑4	24
20	Woodrow	135	↑4	83
21	Richard	133	–	15
22	Leroy	132	↓2	66
23	Paul	126	↑6	13
24	Albert	123	↓7	17
25	Charlie	121	–	75
26	Ernest	120	↑1	35
27	Eugene	101	↑3	41
28	Harold	100	↑3	12
29	Herbert	100	↓1	40
30	Johnnie	96	↑5	>100
31	Roy	95	↑7	32
32	Harry	93	↓6	19
33	Sam	92	↓11	68
34	Jack	91	–	27
35	Benjamin	84	↑1	71
36	Daniel	80	↑4	55
37	Ben	79	↑7	>100
38	Lewis	79	↑1	70
39	Luther	79	↓2	>100
40	Jessie	76	↑1	>100
41	Marion	74	↓9	>100
42	Ralph	74	↑5	21
43	Lee	72	new	84
44	Eddie	71	↓11	>100
45	Jesse	70	↑5	77
46	Andrew	69	↓4	46
47	Lawrence	68	↓1	37
48	Carl	66	↑1	22
49	Nathaniel	64	new	>100
50	Leon	59	new	82

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