Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1935

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1935 were Mary for girls (1,462 babies) and James for boys (1,668). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 39,430 babies born in South Carolina in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1935

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: 16 babies, 37.2× the national rate
Azalee: 15 babies, 34.9× the national rate
Elease: 25 babies, 25.6× the national rate
Eartha: 24 babies, 25.6× the national rate
Albertha: 39 babies, 22.7× the national rate
Jannie: 61 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Lizzie: 74 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Elouise: 32 babies, 8× the national rate
Queen: 33 babies, 7.6× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 23 babies, 45.2× the national rate
Olin: 89 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Furman: 16 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Hazel: 17 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Isiah: 17 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Isaiah: 17 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Boyce: 15 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Wilton: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Isaac: 67 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Alphonso: 19 babies, 7.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	1,462	–	1
2	Betty	848	–	4
3	Shirley	651	↑15	2
4	Dorothy	570	↓1	6
5	Barbara	422	–	3
6	Annie	418	↓2	38
7	Margaret	392	↓1	8
8	Frances	292	↓1	19
9	Elizabeth	287	↓1	17
10	Helen	270	↓1	10
11	Sarah	270	↑1	61
12	Martha	267	↓2	24
13	Doris	232	↓2	13
14	Virginia	218	↑6	16
15	Ruth	213	↓2	15
16	Ruby	208	↓1	41
17	Willie	206	↓1	99
18	Mildred	204	↓4	35
19	Louise	198	↓2	45
20	Patricia	193	↑13	5
21	Rosa	183	↑2	>100
22	Lillie	174	↓1	>100
23	Peggy	167	↑1	36
24	Evelyn	166	↓5	31
25	Nancy	164	↑1	9
26	Carolyn	159	↓4	28
27	Carrie	150	–	>100
28	Alice	146	↑2	25
29	Thelma	141	↓4	76
30	Gladys	140	↑1	78
31	Joyce	136	↑5	12
32	Ethel	134	↓3	82
33	Sara	129	↑4	>100
34	Edna	125	↓6	67
35	Minnie	125	↑3	>100
36	Emma	123	↓1	89
37	Mattie	123	↓5	>100
38	Bobbie	122	↑6	>100
39	Catherine	120	↑1	42
40	Clara	118	↑5	81
41	Bernice	117	↓2	90
42	Ella	115	new	>100
43	Jessie	107	↓1	>100
44	Bertha	106	↑5	>100
45	Juanita	106	↑1	72
46	Hattie	102	↓12	>100
47	Daisy	101	new	>100
48	Julia	100	new	>100
49	Bessie	99	↓6	>100
50	Janie	97	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	James	1,668	–	2
2	John	973	–	3
3	William	884	–	4
4	Robert	763	–	1
5	Willie	613	–	30
6	Charles	598	–	6
7	Thomas	404	↑1	9
8	George	360	↓1	8
9	Bobby	345	–	24
10	David	288	–	11
11	Henry	285	↑1	27
12	Joe	278	↑1	25
13	Joseph	258	↓2	10
14	Edward	255	↑3	13
15	Richard	239	↑4	5
16	Billy	208	↓2	19
17	Leroy	200	↑3	50
18	Harold	191	↓3	20
19	Frank	187	↓3	16
20	Samuel	176	↑5	62
21	Paul	172	↑2	14
22	Walter	170	↑2	23
23	Jack	168	↓2	18
24	Donald	145	↓6	7
25	Arthur	136	↑4	29
26	Marion	135	↑5	>100
27	Ernest	132	↑1	55
28	Jimmy	130	↑8	47
29	Clarence	126	↑1	48
30	Eugene	121	↑2	26
31	Jerry	116	↑18	22
32	Albert	115	↑1	31
33	Charlie	114	↓6	100
34	Fred	113	↑1	34
35	Harry	109	↓1	37
36	Roy	107	↑7	40
37	Carl	103	↑1	28
38	Franklin	103	↓16	71
39	Herbert	99	↓2	58
40	Kenneth	99	↑1	15
41	Raymond	97	↑3	17
42	Johnny	96	↓2	74
43	Jimmie	94	↓4	69
44	Nathaniel	92	↑2	>100
45	Olin	89	↑5	>100
46	Earl	88	new	46
47	Johnnie	86	↓2	>100
48	Eddie	85	–	87
49	Roosevelt	82	↓23	>100
50	Benjamin	78	↓3	>100

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