Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1917

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1917 were Mary for girls (1,263 babies) and James for boys (1,536). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 36,444 babies born in South Carolina in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1917

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

Azalee: 15 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Elease: 34 babies, 25.8× the national rate
Corrie: 20 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Albertha: 32 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Jannie: 48 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Emmie: 15 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Janie: 116 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Queen: 31 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Rosalee: 23 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Eliza: 51 babies, 7.5× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 26 babies, 38.5× the national rate
Furman: 20 babies, 29.6× the national rate
Gary: 20 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Hazel: 16 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Tillman: 17 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Isiah: 21 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Lucius: 21 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Isaiah: 19 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Odell: 43 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Elijah: 39 babies, 8.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	1,263	–	1
2	Annie	550	–	35
3	Margaret	371	↑3	4
4	Ruth	368	↓1	5
5	Louise	355	–	19
6	Elizabeth	327	↓2	8
7	Sarah	285	–	52
8	Helen	269	↑1	2
9	Lillie	256	↑1	86
10	Ruby	254	↓2	27
11	Frances	253	–	9
12	Ethel	248	↑1	24
13	Willie	238	↑7	72
14	Carrie	214	↓2	>100
15	Rosa	212	↓1	>100
16	Alice	205	↑10	13
17	Dorothy	205	↑4	3
18	Martha	196	–	22
19	Evelyn	189	↑5	11
20	Hattie	188	↑5	>100
21	Mattie	182	↓2	94
22	Gladys	177	↑6	23
23	Marie	177	↓8	12
24	Emma	172	↑7	46
25	Mildred	171	↑7	6
26	Lucille	170	↓4	29
27	Bessie	168	↓4	61
28	Edna	165	↓12	20
29	Virginia	163	↓12	10
30	Minnie	161	↑16	75
31	Anna	159	↓1	7
32	Jessie	152	↓5	70
33	Thelma	151	–	32
34	Julia	147	–	47
35	Bertha	144	–	51
36	Sara	140	↑9	>100
37	Lillian	139	↑6	15
38	Mamie	138	↑2	>100
39	Rebecca	137	↑8	>100
40	Ella	136	↑1	83
41	Maggie	133	↓12	>100
42	Edith	132	↓3	28
43	Eva	131	↓7	54
44	Lula	127	↓7	>100
45	Pearl	127	new	57
46	Beatrice	126	↑3	39
47	Grace	121	↓5	30
48	Viola	121	new	59
49	Catherine	116	new	18
50	Janie	116	↓12	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	James	1,536	–	3
2	John	1,065	–	1
3	William	958	–	2
4	Robert	603	–	4
5	Willie	579	–	31
6	George	464	–	6
7	Henry	350	–	15
8	Thomas	330	–	10
9	Joseph	278	↑1	5
10	Charles	271	↓1	7
11	Frank	217	↑1	9
12	Walter	209	↑1	11
13	David	207	↑1	28
14	Edward	204	↓3	8
15	Joe	187	–	35
16	Samuel	186	–	42
17	Charlie	173	↑5	67
18	Leroy	168	↑3	60
19	Clarence	166	↑4	25
20	Arthur	156	↓1	17
21	Richard	155	↓4	14
22	Fred	154	↓4	29
23	Ernest	147	↑4	37
24	Eugene	137	↑4	39
25	Sam	131	↑6	72
26	Paul	129	↓6	13
27	Albert	127	↑3	18
28	Woodrow	127	↓3	73
29	Johnnie	116	↓5	>100
30	Harold	113	↓4	12
31	Harry	112	↓2	19
32	Jack	110	↑1	22
33	Herbert	103	↑12	40
34	Marion	99	↓2	>100
35	Luther	92	↑4	>100
36	Roy	92	↓1	33
37	Ralph	88	↑5	21
38	Jessie	86	–	>100
39	Eddie	84	↓2	>100
40	Carl	80	–	24
41	Daniel	79	↑3	54
42	Jesse	78	new	79
43	Lewis	77	↑4	70
44	Clyde	74	↑6	64
45	Andrew	70	↑4	48
46	Louis	69	↓10	23
47	Lawrence	68	↓6	36
48	Benjamin	66	↓14	76
49	Julius	64	new	>100
50	Ben	62	↓7	>100

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