Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1934

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1934 were Mary for girls (1,526 babies) and James for boys (1,645). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,119 babies born in South Carolina in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1934

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, 31.4× the national rate
Albertha: 43 babies, 24.8× the national rate
Eartha: 23 babies, 22.2× the national rate
Elease: 29 babies, 22.1× the national rate
Jannie: 67 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Queen: 45 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Elouise: 39 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 21 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Pearline: 21 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Janie: 105 babies, 6.8× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 26 babies, 42.1× the national rate
Furman: 21 babies, 27.4× the national rate
Olin: 84 babies, 24.1× the national rate
Rosevelt: 21 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Isiah: 15 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Hoyt: 20 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Isaiah: 16 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Sammie: 52 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 148 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Boyce: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	1,526	–	1
2	Betty	961	–	2
3	Dorothy	559	–	5
4	Annie	460	–	38
5	Barbara	383	–	3
6	Margaret	380	–	8
7	Frances	338	–	19
8	Elizabeth	297	–	18
9	Helen	285	↑4	9
10	Martha	268	↑1	27
11	Doris	262	↓2	11
12	Sarah	260	↓2	67
13	Ruth	250	↑2	13
14	Mildred	249	–	35
15	Ruby	244	↑1	39
16	Willie	217	↑4	>100
17	Louise	205	↓5	40
18	Shirley	201	↑32	4
19	Evelyn	193	–	29
20	Virginia	193	↓3	15
21	Lillie	191	–	>100
22	Carolyn	179	↑9	33
23	Rosa	176	↓5	>100
24	Peggy	170	↓1	36
25	Thelma	162	↓3	65
26	Nancy	160	↑1	10
27	Carrie	157	↓3	>100
28	Edna	153	↑15	55
29	Ethel	145	–	78
30	Alice	142	–	25
31	Gladys	141	↑3	66
32	Mattie	141	↓7	>100
33	Patricia	140	↑3	6
34	Hattie	139	↑1	>100
35	Emma	138	↓9	85
36	Joyce	134	↓4	12
37	Sara	133	↓9	>100
38	Minnie	131	↑7	>100
39	Bernice	124	↓1	82
40	Catherine	124	↓7	42
41	Joan	122	↑3	7
42	Jessie	119	↓1	>100
43	Bessie	113	↑4	>100
44	Bobbie	112	↓5	>100
45	Clara	112	↑3	76
46	Juanita	112	new	64
47	Mamie	111	↓1	>100
48	Ida	110	new	>100
49	Bertha	109	↓7	>100
50	Marie	109	new	34

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	James	1,645	–	2
2	John	924	↑1	3
3	William	903	↓1	4
4	Robert	737	–	1
5	Willie	607	–	30
6	Charles	604	–	7
7	George	427	–	8
8	Thomas	390	–	9
9	Bobby	344	↑1	23
10	David	314	↑1	12
11	Joseph	281	↑1	10
12	Henry	269	↓3	27
13	Joe	258	↑1	26
14	Billy	237	↑4	20
15	Harold	207	↑1	18
16	Frank	202	↑3	16
17	Edward	199	↓2	13
18	Donald	190	↑12	6
19	Richard	190	↓2	5
20	Leroy	189	–	54
21	Jack	186	↑3	17
22	Franklin	183	↓9	46
23	Paul	183	↑3	14
24	Walter	168	↓2	21
25	Samuel	165	↓4	66
26	Roosevelt	148	↓3	>100
27	Charlie	138	↑1	100
28	Ernest	136	↑4	51
29	Arthur	131	↓2	29
30	Clarence	130	↑3	45
31	Marion	125	↓2	>100
32	Eugene	123	↑6	24
33	Albert	113	↓2	32
34	Harry	110	–	36
35	Fred	109	↓10	33
36	Jimmy	108	new	56
37	Herbert	107	↓2	57
38	Carl	106	↑9	28
39	Jimmie	100	↑2	68
40	Johnny	100	new	83
41	Kenneth	100	↓4	15
42	Ralph	99	↑4	31
43	Roy	99	↓3	35
44	Raymond	98	↑5	19
45	Johnnie	97	↓9	>100
46	Nathaniel	94	↓2	>100
47	Benjamin	92	↓8	>100
48	Eddie	84	new	92
49	Jerry	84	↓1	25
50	Olin	84	new	>100

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