Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1927

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1927 were Mary for girls (1,639 babies) and James for boys (1,693). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,266 babies born in South Carolina in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1927

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: 24 babies, 26.2× the national rate
Elease: 42 babies, 26× the national rate
Azalee: 16 babies, 24.9× the national rate
Florrie: 15 babies, 24.1× the national rate
Albertha: 37 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Jannie: 77 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Queenie: 15 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Janie: 117 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Queen: 42 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 30 babies, 8.6× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 27 babies, 45.9× the national rate
Furman: 23 babies, 31.3× the national rate
Isiah: 20 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Elijah: 42 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Moses: 46 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Lucius: 16 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Gary: 15 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Isaac: 71 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Woodrow: 34 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Odell: 30 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	1,639	–	1
2	Dorothy	668	–	2
3	Annie	532	–	36
4	Margaret	462	–	5
5	Betty	393	↑10	3
6	Helen	381	↑2	4
7	Ruth	378	–	6
8	Elizabeth	374	↓3	13
9	Frances	368	↓3	12
10	Sarah	348	–	61
11	Mildred	331	↓2	11
12	Louise	309	↓1	27
13	Ruby	268	↓1	30
14	Willie	263	↑2	71
15	Martha	262	↓2	24
16	Virginia	250	↑2	8
17	Thelma	234	↑5	38
18	Doris	232	↓4	7
19	Ethel	231	–	47
20	Rosa	224	–	>100
21	Evelyn	221	–	15
22	Lillie	208	↓5	94
23	Carrie	186	↑1	>100
24	Mattie	181	↑5	>100
25	Gladys	179	↓2	37
26	Bessie	165	↑7	88
27	Edna	165	↓1	40
28	Sara	164	↑2	>100
29	Alice	160	↓4	17
30	Ella	150	↑19	98
31	Jessie	149	↓3	95
32	Catherine	148	↓5	31
33	Bernice	146	↓2	49
34	Minnie	145	↑4	>100
35	Mamie	143	new	>100
36	Emma	142	↓4	64
37	Hattie	141	↓3	>100
38	Julia	141	↑3	76
39	Edith	133	↑4	48
40	Rebecca	133	↑8	>100
41	Lucille	131	↓2	45
42	Geneva	129	↑2	>100
43	Lillian	125	↓3	32
44	Marie	123	↓9	20
45	Beatrice	120	↑1	67
46	Lula	120	new	>100
47	Maggie	120	–	>100
48	Hazel	117	↓11	53
49	Janie	117	new	>100
50	Anna	116	↓5	16

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	1,693	–	3
2	John	1,053	–	2
3	William	982	–	4
4	Robert	654	–	1
5	Willie	615	–	27
6	Charles	489	–	5
7	George	450	–	7
8	Thomas	416	–	11
9	Henry	356	↑1	19
10	Joseph	274	↓1	9
11	Edward	266	–	10
12	David	258	–	21
13	Samuel	206	↑7	49
14	Jack	204	↑4	16
15	Frank	199	↓2	12
16	Richard	188	–	6
17	Leroy	182	↓2	51
18	Harold	179	↓1	14
19	Walter	169	↓5	17
20	Fred	166	↑1	35
21	Joe	161	↓2	30
22	Clarence	159	–	32
23	Ernest	151	–	41
24	Arthur	140	↑1	22
25	Charlie	138	↑1	80
26	Eugene	136	↑1	20
27	Marion	136	↑1	>100
28	Paul	134	↓4	13
29	Albert	128	–	23
30	Johnnie	116	↑3	>100
31	Ralph	113	↑1	24
32	Harry	111	↓2	25
33	Roy	108	↓2	34
34	Carl	106	↑6	26
35	Benjamin	103	↑8	>100
36	Raymond	99	↓1	15
37	Leon	98	new	78
38	Herbert	94	↑1	42
39	Sam	93	↑5	>100
40	Clyde	91	↓2	68
41	Eddie	91	↑5	>100
42	Billy	89	new	31
43	Daniel	84	new	46
44	Louis	83	↓8	29
45	Howard	80	new	28
46	Marvin	79	↑3	47
47	Luther	78	↓10	>100
48	Earl	77	↓3	33
49	Andrew	76	new	56
50	Jessie	75	↓9	>100

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