Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1922

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1922 were Mary for girls (1,635 babies) and James for boys (2,075). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 45,723 babies born in South Carolina in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1922

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

Wilhelmenia: 15 babies, 29× the national rate
Eartha: 19 babies, 28.7× the national rate
Azalee: 16 babies, 25× the national rate
Corrie: 29 babies, 22.6× the national rate
Elease: 35 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Albertha: 50 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Jannie: 74 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 58 babies, 13× the national rate
Janie: 141 babies, 10× the national rate
Emmie: 17 babies, 8× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 24 babies, 36.7× the national rate
Furman: 42 babies, 33.6× the national rate
Hazel: 19 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Boyce: 22 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Prince: 19 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Isaiah: 26 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Isiah: 24 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Elijah: 47 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Moses: 53 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Mose: 18 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	1,635	–	1
2	Annie	644	–	30
3	Margaret	525	–	4
4	Dorothy	513	↑1	2
5	Elizabeth	469	↑4	9
6	Frances	444	↑1	10
7	Ruth	443	↓3	5
8	Louise	435	–	22
9	Helen	415	↓3	3
10	Sarah	356	↑1	51
11	Virginia	300	↑7	7
12	Ruby	294	–	26
13	Lillie	289	↑1	85
14	Mildred	287	↓4	8
15	Martha	278	↓2	21
16	Ethel	267	↓1	32
17	Willie	265	↑2	70
18	Thelma	256	↓2	31
19	Rosa	247	↑6	>100
20	Evelyn	246	↑1	13
21	Edna	241	↑3	29
22	Carrie	232	–	>100
23	Mattie	203	↓6	>100
24	Hattie	201	↑5	>100
25	Alice	200	↓2	15
26	Marie	200	–	14
27	Julia	193	↑5	60
28	Emma	192	–	50
29	Gladys	192	↓9	25
30	Ella	190	↑15	90
31	Jessie	190	↓1	87
32	Minnie	186	↑1	91
33	Doris	183	↑1	11
34	Lucille	183	↓3	33
35	Bessie	180	↑8	81
36	Lillian	177	↑3	19
37	Sara	172	↑1	>100
38	Catherine	171	↓11	24
39	Anna	165	↑5	12
40	Mamie	161	↓3	>100
41	Grace	159	new	38
42	Beatrice	155	↑6	43
43	Bertha	152	↓2	63
44	Maggie	152	↑2	>100
45	Lula	145	↓5	>100
46	Edith	144	↓11	34
47	Janie	141	new	>100
48	Daisy	139	new	>100
49	Rebecca	139	new	>100
50	Bernice	138	–	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	2,075	–	4
2	John	1,180	–	1
3	William	1,136	–	3
4	Robert	711	–	2
5	Willie	669	–	28
6	George	540	–	6
7	Thomas	450	–	11
8	Charles	448	–	5
9	Henry	403	–	17
10	Joseph	360	–	7
11	David	310	–	24
12	Edward	284	–	8
13	Frank	255	–	10
14	Samuel	233	↑1	43
15	Leroy	219	↑2	55
16	Walter	215	↓2	15
17	Joe	208	↓1	35
18	Ernest	206	↑5	37
19	Albert	188	↑7	20
20	Charlie	187	↑2	72
21	Clarence	183	↓1	29
22	Paul	179	↓1	14
23	Richard	178	↑1	9
24	Fred	164	↑1	33
25	Arthur	163	↓7	19
26	Eugene	158	↑2	25
27	Harold	153	↓8	13
28	Jack	144	↑2	18
29	Herbert	137	↑5	40
30	Marion	132	↓1	>100
31	Benjamin	131	↑1	82
32	Harry	127	↓5	22
33	Clyde	121	↑2	67
34	Ralph	116	↑3	23
35	Johnnie	113	↓2	>100
36	Sam	111	↑4	84
37	Roy	109	↑2	32
38	Lewis	103	–	75
39	Carl	102	↓8	30
40	Eddie	101	↑2	>100
41	Luther	100	↑8	>100
42	Raymond	94	↑6	16
43	Earl	93	new	31
44	Louis	90	↓8	27
45	Nathaniel	89	new	>100
46	Jesse	88	–	81
47	Leon	87	↓6	77
48	Daniel	86	↓3	47
49	Melvin	83	new	50
50	Ben	81	new	>100

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