Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1918

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,412 babies) and James for boys (1,814). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,097 babies born in South Carolina in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1918

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

Eartha: 17 babies, 39.3× the national rate
Elease: 23 babies, 25.5× the national rate
Corrie: 21 babies, 18× the national rate
Queenie: 17 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Albertha: 38 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Jannie: 65 babies, 15× the national rate
Queen: 42 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Janie: 118 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Rosalee: 23 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 37 babies, 8.2× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 20 babies, 43.7× the national rate
Furman: 41 babies, 29.4× the national rate
Hazel: 19 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Isiah: 26 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Haskell: 15 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Sammie: 45 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Elijah: 42 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Isaiah: 21 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Lucius: 21 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Booker: 29 babies, 6.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,412	–	1
2	Annie	556	–	36
3	Elizabeth	424	↑3	9
4	Margaret	420	↓1	4
5	Ruth	400	↓1	5
6	Louise	386	↓1	18
7	Sarah	329	–	52
8	Frances	316	↑3	8
9	Helen	313	↓1	2
10	Ruby	306	–	27
11	Dorothy	274	↑6	3
12	Willie	259	↑1	70
13	Lillie	251	↓4	89
14	Rosa	251	↑1	>100
15	Ethel	232	↓3	28
16	Marie	232	↑7	12
17	Evelyn	228	↑2	11
18	Carrie	225	↓4	>100
19	Mattie	219	↑2	100
20	Edna	217	↑8	23
21	Martha	213	↓3	25
22	Mildred	211	↑3	6
23	Alice	207	↓7	13
24	Hattie	206	↓4	>100
25	Gladys	205	↓3	22
26	Emma	203	↓2	46
27	Virginia	202	↑2	7
28	Bessie	199	↓1	61
29	Thelma	189	↑4	32
30	Lucille	188	↓4	29
31	Maggie	174	↑10	>100
32	Viola	172	↑16	59
33	Lillian	167	↑4	15
34	Jessie	165	↓2	75
35	Eva	155	↑8	55
36	Ella	150	↑4	84
37	Anna	148	↓6	10
38	Julia	148	↓4	48
39	Edith	147	↑3	30
40	Bertha	146	↓5	51
41	Ida	145	new	57
42	Minnie	143	↓12	88
43	Pearl	140	↑2	56
44	Grace	138	↑3	31
45	Clara	132	new	43
46	Beatrice	127	–	40
47	Geneva	127	new	>100
48	Mamie	127	↓10	>100
49	Rebecca	126	↓10	>100
50	Sara	126	↓14	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	1,814	–	3
2	John	1,194	–	1
3	William	1,013	–	2
4	Willie	696	↑1	29
5	Robert	621	↓1	4
6	George	534	–	6
7	Henry	449	–	16
8	Thomas	398	–	10
9	Charles	350	↑1	5
10	Joseph	305	↓1	7
11	Frank	286	–	9
12	Edward	252	↑2	8
13	David	243	–	28
14	Walter	230	↓2	11
15	Joe	219	–	34
16	Samuel	193	–	43
17	Leroy	184	↑1	57
18	Woodrow	178	↑10	58
19	Fred	172	↑3	33
20	Charlie	164	↓3	70
21	Clarence	162	↓2	23
22	Richard	160	↓1	12
23	Albert	156	↑4	19
24	Ernest	156	↓1	37
25	Arthur	155	↓5	17
26	Harry	149	↑5	20
27	Eugene	142	↓3	35
28	Harold	140	↑2	13
29	Paul	140	↓3	14
30	Johnnie	126	↓1	>100
31	Herbert	123	↑2	40
32	Sam	118	↓7	75
33	Luther	117	↑2	>100
34	Roy	116	↑2	32
35	Marion	109	↓1	>100
36	Eddie	107	↑3	>100
37	Ralph	107	–	22
38	Jack	101	↓6	21
39	Benjamin	99	↑9	79
40	Raymond	92	new	15
41	Andrew	90	↑4	46
42	Jessie	89	↓4	>100
43	Lawrence	88	↑4	38
44	Lewis	88	↓1	74
45	Daniel	83	↓4	52
46	Earl	82	new	31
47	Jesse	82	↓5	78
48	Carl	81	↓8	25
49	Julius	79	–	>100
50	Ben	78	–	>100

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