Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1920

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1920 were Mary for girls (1,615 babies) and James for boys (2,118). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 45,949 babies born in South Carolina in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1920

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: 22 babies, 33.3× the national rate
Elease: 26 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Corrie: 17 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Albertha: 41 babies, 16× the national rate
Jannie: 64 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Janie: 161 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Rosalee: 38 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Mozell: 15 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Vernell: 18 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Corine: 56 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 19 babies, 34× the national rate
Furman: 29 babies, 30.9× the national rate
Hazel: 21 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Isaiah: 20 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Sammie: 39 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Moses: 55 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Odell: 47 babies, 7× the national rate
Cleveland: 45 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Nathaniel: 104 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Elijah: 34 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	1,615	–	1
2	Annie	686	–	35
3	Margaret	510	–	4
4	Ruth	503	–	5
5	Louise	458	–	19
6	Helen	435	↑5	3
7	Dorothy	431	↑1	2
8	Frances	416	↓1	9
9	Elizabeth	409	↓3	8
10	Sarah	344	–	50
11	Ruby	322	↓2	26
12	Mildred	297	↑2	6
13	Ethel	283	↑4	30
14	Virginia	271	↑7	7
15	Lillie	268	↓2	90
16	Mattie	259	↑7	96
17	Willie	255	↓1	74
18	Thelma	247	↑8	31
19	Rosa	246	↓7	>100
20	Carrie	239	↓1	>100
21	Evelyn	227	↓1	12
22	Martha	227	↓7	23
23	Alice	207	↑6	15
24	Edna	207	↑1	27
25	Gladys	207	↑6	22
26	Marie	202	↓4	13
27	Hattie	190	↓3	>100
28	Julia	188	↑8	55
29	Sara	187	↑19	>100
30	Lillian	182	↑8	18
31	Emma	180	↓4	46
32	Lucille	180	↓14	29
33	Edith	178	↑7	32
34	Minnie	177	–	87
35	Bertha	176	↓2	57
36	Ida	173	↑8	66
37	Jessie	171	↓7	84
38	Mamie	171	↓3	>100
39	Bessie	169	↓11	71
40	Maggie	169	↑2	>100
41	Janie	161	↑4	>100
42	Anna	154	↓3	10
43	Hazel	154	new	34
44	Beatrice	149	↓12	41
45	Catherine	143	↓2	21
46	Ella	142	↓5	88
47	Lula	141	↓1	>100
48	Grace	140	new	37
49	Viola	140	–	59
50	Geneva	139	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	James	2,118	–	4
2	John	1,291	–	1
3	William	1,213	–	2
4	Robert	750	↑1	3
5	Willie	683	↓1	29
6	George	539	–	6
7	Thomas	442	↑1	11
8	Henry	426	↓1	17
9	Charles	418	↑1	5
10	Joseph	369	↓1	7
11	David	298	–	25
12	Edward	288	–	8
13	Frank	254	–	9
14	Walter	238	–	13
15	Samuel	233	–	44
16	Joe	208	↑6	35
17	Leroy	200	↓1	56
18	Harold	191	↑12	12
19	Arthur	185	↓1	18
20	Charlie	184	↓3	70
21	Albert	181	–	19
22	Clarence	175	↓3	26
23	Richard	175	↓3	10
24	Paul	173	–	14
25	Fred	164	↓2	33
26	Eugene	154	↑3	30
27	Jack	149	↑7	20
28	Johnnie	148	↓2	99
29	Harry	143	↓2	21
30	Ernest	136	↓2	37
31	Jessie	127	↑9	>100
32	Herbert	125	↓1	41
33	Ralph	125	↑8	22
34	Sam	123	↓2	84
35	Marion	119	↑1	>100
36	Carl	109	↑8	27
37	Roy	109	–	32
38	Benjamin	108	↑5	83
39	Eddie	106	↓6	>100
40	Lewis	106	↓2	72
41	Nathaniel	104	new	>100
42	Howard	93	new	24
43	Lee	93	↑7	82
44	Andrew	91	↓5	49
45	Raymond	91	–	15
46	Luther	88	↓4	>100
47	Lawrence	87	new	36
48	Woodrow	87	↓23	>100
49	Clyde	82	new	68
50	Louis	82	↓2	28

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