Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1921

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1921 were Mary for girls (1,688 babies) and James for boys (2,004). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 44,588 babies born in South Carolina in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1921

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: 36 babies, 26.9× the national rate
Eartha: 19 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Corrie: 18 babies, 19.9× the national rate
Jannie: 71 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Albertha: 33 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Emmie: 21 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Estell: 24 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Janie: 132 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 39 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Rosalee: 26 babies, 8.5× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 22 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Furman: 32 babies, 26.3× the national rate
Hazel: 29 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Gary: 22 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Boyce: 19 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Lucius: 27 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Moses: 57 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Dock: 17 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Odell: 43 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Sammie: 36 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	1,688	–	1
2	Annie	627	–	36
3	Margaret	562	–	4
4	Ruth	471	–	5
5	Dorothy	450	↑2	2
6	Helen	447	–	3
7	Frances	442	↑1	9
8	Louise	419	↓3	22
9	Elizabeth	416	–	10
10	Mildred	338	↑2	7
11	Sarah	323	↓1	54
12	Ruby	297	↓1	26
13	Martha	279	↑9	21
14	Lillie	278	↑1	94
15	Ethel	263	↓2	32
16	Thelma	257	↑2	30
17	Mattie	255	↓1	>100
18	Virginia	254	↓4	6
19	Willie	250	↓2	74
20	Gladys	240	↑5	24
21	Evelyn	239	–	12
22	Carrie	226	↓2	>100
23	Alice	212	–	15
24	Edna	209	–	27
25	Rosa	198	↓6	>100
26	Marie	190	–	14
27	Catherine	189	↑18	23
28	Emma	183	↑3	52
29	Hattie	182	↓2	>100
30	Jessie	180	↑7	91
31	Lucille	180	↑1	31
32	Julia	172	↓4	58
33	Minnie	166	↑1	96
34	Doris	165	new	13
35	Edith	163	↓2	33
36	Clara	160	new	45
37	Mamie	160	↑1	>100
38	Sara	158	↓9	>100
39	Lillian	156	↓9	19
40	Lula	155	↑7	>100
41	Bertha	152	↓6	59
42	Hazel	151	↑1	34
43	Bessie	146	↓4	75
44	Anna	145	↓2	11
45	Ella	143	↑1	89
46	Maggie	140	↓6	>100
47	Eva	139	new	63
48	Beatrice	138	↓4	41
49	Myrtle	135	new	73
50	Bernice	133	new	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	James	2,004	–	4
2	John	1,245	–	1
3	William	1,097	–	3
4	Robert	727	–	2
5	Willie	599	–	34
6	George	482	–	6
7	Thomas	455	–	11
8	Charles	418	↑1	5
9	Henry	405	↓1	17
10	Joseph	351	–	7
11	David	303	–	25
12	Edward	299	–	8
13	Frank	264	–	9
14	Walter	242	–	15
15	Samuel	217	–	44
16	Joe	191	–	36
17	Leroy	190	–	55
18	Arthur	188	↑1	19
19	Harold	188	↓1	12
20	Clarence	186	↑2	28
21	Paul	183	↑3	14
22	Charlie	170	↓2	76
23	Ernest	170	↑7	38
24	Richard	164	↓1	10
25	Fred	161	–	33
26	Albert	159	↓5	20
27	Harry	152	↑2	21
28	Eugene	147	↓2	26
29	Marion	138	↑6	>100
30	Jack	133	↓3	18
31	Carl	120	↑5	30
32	Benjamin	116	↑6	82
33	Johnnie	116	↓5	>100
34	Herbert	114	↓2	42
35	Clyde	106	↑14	69
36	Louis	106	↑14	29
37	Ralph	106	↓4	23
38	Lewis	100	↑2	71
39	Roy	99	↓2	32
40	Sam	96	↓6	85
41	Leon	94	new	74
42	Eddie	93	↓3	>100
43	Jessie	93	↓12	>100
44	Andrew	90	–	51
45	Daniel	86	new	49
46	Jesse	86	new	77
47	Herman	83	new	64
48	Raymond	83	↓3	16
49	Luther	82	↓3	>100
50	Claude	81	new	96

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