Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1933

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1933 were Mary for girls (1,467 babies) and James for boys (1,653). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 38,112 babies born in South Carolina in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1933

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

Azalee: 16 babies, 32.1× the national rate
Eartha: 33 babies, 28× the national rate
Elease: 24 babies, 21.5× the national rate
Albertha: 32 babies, 20× the national rate
Jannie: 66 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Queen: 36 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Lue: 15 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Eliza: 28 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 18 babies, 7× the national rate
Janie: 98 babies, 6.9× the national rate

Boys

Furman: 39 babies, 37.7× the national rate
Maxie: 17 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Olin: 23 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Isaiah: 18 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Elijah: 33 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Isiah: 16 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Moses: 41 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Rosevelt: 17 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Hoyt: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Roosevelt: 153 babies, 7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	1,467	–	1
2	Betty	899	–	2
3	Dorothy	593	–	4
4	Annie	467	–	37
5	Barbara	376	↑4	3
6	Margaret	356	↓1	7
7	Frances	320	↓1	18
8	Elizabeth	281	–	17
9	Doris	278	↑1	10
10	Sarah	274	↑1	58
11	Martha	253	↑3	27
12	Louise	247	↑1	39
13	Helen	245	↓6	8
14	Mildred	237	↑1	32
15	Ruth	236	↓3	13
16	Ruby	222	–	43
17	Virginia	205	↑5	15
18	Rosa	201	↑3	>100
19	Evelyn	199	↓1	30
20	Willie	192	↓3	93
21	Lillie	188	↓2	>100
22	Thelma	169	↓2	57
23	Peggy	156	↑6	36
24	Carrie	154	↓1	>100
25	Mattie	149	↑2	>100
26	Emma	145	↑9	75
27	Nancy	145	↑13	11
28	Sara	144	↑3	>100
29	Ethel	143	↓4	71
30	Alice	138	–	22
31	Carolyn	137	↑3	40
32	Joyce	137	↑11	12
33	Catherine	136	↓5	44
34	Gladys	133	↓10	60
35	Hattie	130	↑3	>100
36	Patricia	129	new	6
37	Julia	127	↑2	97
38	Bernice	123	↓5	83
39	Bobbie	119	↑5	>100
40	Ella	119	↓14	>100
41	Jessie	117	↓4	>100
42	Bertha	112	new	>100
43	Edna	109	↓11	55
44	Joan	105	new	5
45	Minnie	105	↓9	>100
46	Mamie	102	new	>100
47	Bessie	100	↓1	>100
48	Clara	100	new	67
49	Janie	98	↓2	>100
50	Shirley	97	new	9

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	James	1,653	–	2
2	William	897	–	4
3	John	874	–	3
4	Robert	730	–	1
5	Willie	595	↑1	32
6	Charles	551	↓1	6
7	George	340	–	8
8	Thomas	338	–	10
9	Henry	283	–	24
10	Bobby	278	↑2	26
11	David	262	↓1	13
12	Joseph	235	↓1	9
13	Franklin	204	↑24	33
14	Joe	203	↑8	27
15	Edward	202	↓2	11
16	Harold	201	↑4	18
17	Richard	201	↓3	5
18	Billy	200	↓3	20
19	Frank	197	↓2	16
20	Leroy	184	↓4	56
21	Samuel	175	↓3	61
22	Walter	166	↓3	21
23	Roosevelt	153	↑18	>100
24	Jack	146	↓3	17
25	Fred	144	↑7	34
26	Paul	139	↓3	14
27	Arthur	135	↓2	25
28	Charlie	135	↓2	95
29	Marion	127	↑2	>100
30	Donald	126	↓6	7
31	Albert	122	↓2	30
32	Ernest	121	↑1	50
33	Clarence	111	↓5	43
34	Harry	107	–	35
35	Herbert	107	↓5	49
36	Johnnie	107	↑3	>100
37	Kenneth	106	↑13	15
38	Eugene	104	↓11	23
39	Benjamin	97	↑5	>100
40	Roy	97	↓4	39
41	Jimmie	95	new	72
42	Lewis	92	↑1	92
43	Clyde	86	↑2	87
44	Nathaniel	86	↑4	>100
45	Howard	85	↑4	36
46	Ralph	85	↓8	29
47	Carl	82	↓12	28
48	Jerry	82	new	31
49	Raymond	82	↓9	19
50	Earl	77	new	41

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