Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1936

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1936 were Mary for girls (1,437 babies) and James for boys (1,562). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 38,490 babies born in South Carolina in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1936

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: 31 babies, 26.1× the national rate
Albertha: 35 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Jannie: 56 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Elease: 18 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Queen: 34 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Eliza: 22 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Janie: 105 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Elouise: 24 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Lizzie: 41 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lucile: 29 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 16 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Olin: 86 babies, 29.2× the national rate
Furman: 26 babies, 27.5× the national rate
Isaiah: 23 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Boyce: 16 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Isiah: 15 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Major: 15 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Sammie: 45 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Woodrow: 40 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Elijah: 30 babies, 7.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	1,437	–	1
2	Betty	846	–	4
3	Shirley	597	–	2
4	Dorothy	482	–	6
5	Barbara	454	–	3
6	Annie	382	–	45
7	Margaret	353	–	9
8	Elizabeth	275	↑1	18
9	Frances	260	↓1	19
10	Helen	254	–	11
11	Martha	252	↑1	24
12	Sarah	248	↓1	63
13	Doris	235	–	15
14	Patricia	203	↑6	5
15	Lillie	202	↑7	>100
16	Ruby	191	–	51
17	Mildred	190	↑1	40
18	Evelyn	189	↑6	34
19	Louise	188	–	46
20	Willie	184	↓3	>100
21	Virginia	182	↓7	14
22	Rosa	178	↓1	>100
23	Carolyn	177	↑3	23
24	Ruth	173	↓9	16
25	Nancy	168	–	8
26	Joyce	166	↑5	12
27	Peggy	163	↓4	35
28	Carrie	140	↓1	>100
29	Alice	139	↓1	27
30	Thelma	138	↓1	74
31	Catherine	137	↑8	44
32	Emma	124	↑4	85
33	Jessie	121	↑10	>100
34	Julia	119	↑14	>100
35	Edna	118	↓1	71
36	Sylvia	114	new	53
37	Hattie	113	↑9	>100
38	Ethel	108	↓6	90
39	Ella	105	↑3	>100
40	Janie	105	↑10	>100
41	Sara	105	↓8	>100
42	Gladys	103	↓12	84
43	Mattie	102	↓6	>100
44	Margie	99	new	>100
45	Eva	98	new	>100
46	Bobbie	97	↓8	>100
47	Patsy	96	new	52
48	Ann	95	new	28
49	Minnie	94	↓14	>100
50	Clara	93	↓10	91

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	James	1,562	–	2
2	John	863	–	3
3	William	849	–	4
4	Robert	807	–	1
5	Willie	592	–	32
6	Charles	505	–	6
7	Thomas	390	–	8
8	George	374	–	9
9	Joe	364	↑3	23
10	Bobby	331	↓1	24
11	Joseph	292	↑2	11
12	David	288	↓2	10
13	Henry	268	↓2	28
14	Billy	239	↑2	22
15	Edward	221	↓1	13
16	Richard	207	↓1	5
17	Frank	185	↑2	16
18	Harold	180	–	21
19	Donald	166	↑5	7
20	Walter	161	↑2	26
21	Leroy	158	↓4	57
22	Samuel	156	↓2	67
23	Paul	144	↓2	15
24	Jack	136	↓1	20
25	Jimmy	134	↑3	46
26	Johnny	129	↑16	72
27	Fred	124	↑7	36
28	Albert	122	↑4	34
29	Eugene	121	↑1	29
30	Jerry	118	↑1	18
31	Arthur	116	↓6	30
32	Harry	116	↑3	39
33	Franklin	113	↑5	64
34	Marion	112	↓8	>100
35	Clarence	109	↓6	52
36	Herbert	108	↑3	62
37	Jimmie	104	↑6	71
38	Charlie	103	↓5	>100
39	Kenneth	103	↑1	14
40	Johnnie	100	↑7	>100
41	Carl	99	↓4	27
42	Roosevelt	98	↑7	>100
43	Ernest	91	↓16	55
44	Eddie	89	↑4	79
45	Raymond	87	↓4	17
46	Roy	87	↓10	42
47	Melvin	86	new	53
48	Nathaniel	86	↓4	>100
49	Olin	86	↓4	>100
50	Benjamin	82	–	>100

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