Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1919

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1919 were Mary for girls (1,616 babies) and James for boys (1,872). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 43,933 babies born in South Carolina in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1919

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: 40 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Eartha: 18 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Azalee: 22 babies, 21.4× the national rate
Corrie: 20 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Jannie: 80 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Albertha: 40 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Queenie: 16 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Emmie: 15 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Elouise: 38 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Janie: 145 babies, 9.2× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 26 babies, 40.5× the national rate
Furman: 38 babies, 34× the national rate
Hazel: 24 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Prince: 21 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Rosevelt: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Isiah: 31 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Gary: 16 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Haskell: 18 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Odell: 49 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Lucius: 23 babies, 7.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	1,616	–	1
2	Annie	692	–	35
3	Margaret	479	↑1	4
4	Ruth	465	↑1	5
5	Louise	448	↑1	20
6	Elizabeth	419	↓3	8
7	Frances	354	↑1	9
8	Dorothy	326	↑3	3
9	Ruby	310	↑1	24
10	Sarah	308	↓3	46
11	Helen	305	↓2	2
12	Rosa	298	↑2	>100
13	Lillie	286	–	81
14	Mildred	282	↑8	6
15	Martha	273	↑6	25
16	Willie	262	↓4	61
17	Ethel	257	↓2	28
18	Lucille	231	↑12	27
19	Carrie	224	↓1	>100
20	Evelyn	220	↓3	11
21	Virginia	216	↑6	7
22	Marie	213	↓6	12
23	Mattie	213	↓4	95
24	Hattie	212	–	>100
25	Edna	209	↓5	22
26	Thelma	209	↑3	31
27	Emma	204	↓1	45
28	Bessie	203	–	59
29	Alice	199	↓6	13
30	Jessie	192	↑4	75
31	Gladys	186	↓6	21
32	Beatrice	177	↑14	41
33	Bertha	175	↑7	52
34	Minnie	172	↑8	80
35	Mamie	170	↑13	>100
36	Julia	166	↑2	48
37	Eva	165	↓2	55
38	Lillian	162	↓5	17
39	Anna	160	↓2	10
40	Edith	159	↓1	29
41	Ella	158	↓5	87
42	Maggie	155	↓11	>100
43	Catherine	154	new	23
44	Ida	150	↓3	57
45	Janie	145	new	>100
46	Lula	144	new	>100
47	Clara	143	↓2	43
48	Sara	140	↑2	>100
49	Viola	137	↓17	58
50	Daisy	136	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	James	1,872	–	3
2	John	1,196	–	1
3	William	1,157	–	2
4	Willie	731	–	23
5	Robert	681	–	4
6	George	485	–	6
7	Henry	461	–	16
8	Thomas	399	–	10
9	Joseph	351	↑1	7
10	Charles	304	↓1	5
11	David	287	↑2	27
12	Edward	273	–	8
13	Frank	270	↓2	9
14	Walter	251	–	11
15	Samuel	218	↑1	43
16	Leroy	207	↑1	55
17	Charlie	186	↑3	66
18	Arthur	184	↑7	19
19	Clarence	184	↑2	25
20	Richard	184	↑2	12
21	Albert	182	↑2	18
22	Joe	180	↓7	35
23	Fred	170	↓4	30
24	Paul	161	↑5	15
25	Woodrow	159	↓7	91
26	Johnnie	158	↑4	95
27	Harry	154	↓1	20
28	Ernest	142	↓4	36
29	Eugene	137	↓2	33
30	Harold	136	↓2	13
31	Herbert	131	–	40
32	Sam	126	–	75
33	Eddie	117	↑3	99
34	Jack	113	↑4	21
35	Jesse	112	↑12	77
36	Marion	112	↓1	>100
37	Roy	112	↓3	32
38	Lewis	103	↑6	74
39	Andrew	101	↑2	47
40	Jessie	100	↑2	>100
41	Ralph	98	↓4	22
42	Luther	94	↓9	>100
43	Benjamin	92	↓4	79
44	Carl	86	↑4	29
45	Raymond	86	↓5	14
46	Daniel	85	↓1	51
47	Isaac	85	new	>100
48	Louis	85	new	28
49	Claude	82	new	92
50	Lee	81	new	82

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