Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1926

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,627 babies) and James for boys (1,842). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,267 babies born in South Carolina in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1926

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: 23 babies, 31.1× the national rate
Albertha: 47 babies, 20.2× the national rate
Azalee: 15 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Elease: 32 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Thomasina: 15 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Jannie: 79 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Emmie: 16 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Estell: 21 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Janie: 114 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 30 babies, 8.9× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 18 babies, 31.2× the national rate
Furman: 17 babies, 26.4× the national rate
Isiah: 23 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Boyce: 17 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Isaiah: 21 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Elijah: 46 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Sammie: 41 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Woodrow: 40 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Talmadge: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Ulysses: 21 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,627	–	1
2	Dorothy	579	↑1	2
3	Annie	564	↓1	34
4	Margaret	491	–	5
5	Elizabeth	399	↑2	11
6	Frances	391	↓1	10
7	Ruth	377	↑1	6
8	Helen	368	↓2	4
9	Mildred	333	↑1	9
10	Sarah	333	↑1	63
11	Louise	298	↓2	27
12	Ruby	277	–	30
13	Martha	276	↑2	24
14	Doris	273	↑2	7
15	Betty	267	↑4	3
16	Willie	265	↑1	73
17	Lillie	261	↓3	99
18	Virginia	255	↓5	8
19	Ethel	235	↑4	41
20	Rosa	220	↓2	>100
21	Evelyn	205	↑1	13
22	Thelma	205	↓2	36
23	Gladys	202	↓2	35
24	Carrie	199	–	>100
25	Alice	190	↑2	17
26	Edna	188	–	38
27	Catherine	170	↑2	31
28	Jessie	166	↑12	93
29	Mattie	163	↓4	>100
30	Sara	160	↑8	>100
31	Bernice	159	↑14	45
32	Emma	154	↓4	59
33	Bessie	151	↓3	89
34	Hattie	148	–	>100
35	Marie	148	↓2	18
36	Lois	143	↑7	19
37	Hazel	142	↓1	48
38	Minnie	139	↓1	>100
39	Lucille	137	↓7	43
40	Lillian	134	↑4	28
41	Julia	131	↓2	75
42	Bertha	126	new	76
43	Edith	126	↓12	42
44	Geneva	125	↑5	>100
45	Anna	124	↓10	15
46	Beatrice	119	↑2	58
47	Maggie	118	new	>100
48	Rebecca	117	new	>100
49	Ella	115	↓8	98
50	Ida	114	–	82

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	1,842	–	3
2	John	1,048	↑1	2
3	William	1,018	↓1	4
4	Robert	703	–	1
5	Willie	564	–	28
6	Charles	445	↑1	5
7	George	425	↓1	6
8	Thomas	379	–	11
9	Joseph	330	↑1	8
10	Henry	309	↓1	19
11	Edward	245	–	10
12	David	235	–	22
13	Frank	227	–	12
14	Walter	219	↑2	17
15	Leroy	192	–	51
16	Richard	183	↑1	7
17	Harold	179	↑1	14
18	Jack	179	↑4	16
19	Joe	175	–	33
20	Samuel	174	↓6	48
21	Fred	171	↑7	31
22	Clarence	170	↓2	29
23	Ernest	162	↑2	37
24	Paul	154	↓1	13
25	Arthur	152	↓1	20
26	Charlie	144	↑1	81
27	Eugene	141	↓6	23
28	Marion	135	↑1	>100
29	Albert	126	↓3	21
30	Harry	121	–	25
31	Roy	121	↑2	34
32	Ralph	104	–	24
33	Johnnie	96	↓2	>100
34	Nathaniel	96	↑10	>100
35	Raymond	95	↑1	15
36	Louis	92	↑4	30
37	Luther	92	new	>100
38	Clyde	87	↑8	67
39	Herbert	87	↓4	44
40	Carl	83	↓1	26
41	Jessie	82	new	>100
42	Lewis	82	↑8	82
43	Benjamin	81	↓9	98
44	Sam	80	↓7	92
45	Earl	75	–	32
46	Eddie	75	↓8	>100
47	Jesse	75	new	87
48	Floyd	71	new	53
49	Marvin	68	new	50
50	Calvin	67	↓7	65

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