Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1925

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1925 were Mary for girls (1,668 babies) and James for boys (1,836). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 43,267 babies born in South Carolina in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1925

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: 35 babies, 26.1× the national rate
Azalee: 17 babies, 20× the national rate
Albertha: 52 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Jannie: 72 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Janie: 149 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Queen: 47 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Elise: 27 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 39 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Elouise: 39 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Estell: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 23 babies, 39.2× the national rate
Furman: 30 babies, 35.5× the national rate
Hazel: 20 babies, 19.7× the national rate
Elijah: 50 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Isiah: 23 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Elmore: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Boyce: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Gary: 17 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Moses: 46 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Odell: 35 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	1,668	–	1
2	Annie	647	–	32
3	Dorothy	620	–	2
4	Margaret	540	–	5
5	Frances	428	↑3	11
6	Helen	404	↑1	4
7	Elizabeth	396	↓1	10
8	Ruth	395	↓3	6
9	Louise	389	–	27
10	Mildred	368	↑1	9
11	Sarah	318	↓1	58
12	Ruby	314	–	30
13	Virginia	294	↑1	7
14	Lillie	271	↑1	91
15	Martha	270	↓2	23
16	Doris	265	↑4	8
17	Willie	265	↓1	68
18	Rosa	250	↑1	>100
19	Betty	248	↑7	3
20	Thelma	239	↓2	35
21	Gladys	233	↑1	33
22	Evelyn	231	↓5	12
23	Ethel	228	↓2	43
24	Carrie	220	↓1	>100
25	Mattie	211	↓1	100
26	Edna	195	↓1	37
27	Alice	194	↑6	15
28	Emma	185	↑3	57
29	Catherine	181	↓1	29
30	Bessie	178	↑8	87
31	Edith	178	new	42
32	Lucille	177	↓3	41
33	Marie	176	↑2	16
34	Hattie	169	↓2	>100
35	Anna	166	↑2	13
36	Hazel	163	↑14	45
37	Minnie	160	↑4	>100
38	Sara	160	↓8	>100
39	Julia	156	↑1	65
40	Jessie	155	↓13	97
41	Ella	149	↑5	93
42	Janie	149	↑6	>100
43	Lois	145	↓9	18
44	Lillian	137	↓8	25
45	Bernice	136	↓6	46
46	Clara	136	new	55
47	Mamie	131	↑2	>100
48	Beatrice	130	new	50
49	Geneva	128	↓2	>100
50	Ida	125	new	82

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	James	1,836	–	4
2	William	1,129	–	3
3	John	1,031	–	2
4	Robert	752	–	1
5	Willie	653	–	27
6	George	497	–	6
7	Charles	420	–	5
8	Thomas	399	–	11
9	Henry	360	–	18
10	Joseph	332	–	7
11	Edward	259	↑1	9
12	David	255	↓1	22
13	Frank	214	–	12
14	Samuel	211	↑2	46
15	Leroy	198	–	52
16	Walter	190	↓2	16
17	Richard	189	↑7	8
18	Harold	182	↑7	14
19	Joe	180	↑1	34
20	Clarence	167	↓3	30
21	Eugene	167	↑7	24
22	Jack	167	↓3	17
23	Paul	164	↓1	13
24	Arthur	163	↓3	20
25	Ernest	161	↓7	37
26	Albert	160	↑1	21
27	Charlie	160	↓1	78
28	Fred	149	↓5	33
29	Marion	139	–	>100
30	Harry	124	–	23
31	Johnnie	123	↑4	100
32	Ralph	121	↓1	25
33	Roy	117	↑1	32
34	Benjamin	112	↓1	93
35	Herbert	110	↓3	42
36	Raymond	105	↑10	15
37	Sam	102	↓1	91
38	Eddie	101	↑1	>100
39	Carl	94	↑1	28
40	Louis	89	↑2	29
41	Howard	88	new	26
42	Lawrence	88	new	36
43	Calvin	87	–	47
44	Nathaniel	87	–	>100
45	Earl	84	↑5	31
46	Clyde	80	↑2	68
47	Daniel	79	–	44
48	Leon	79	↓3	76
49	Lee	77	new	82
50	Lewis	77	↓9	79

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