Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1937

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1937 were Mary for girls (1,548 babies) and James for boys (1,659). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 39,829 babies born in South Carolina in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1937

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: 18 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Albertha: 30 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Elease: 17 babies, 16× the national rate
Jannie: 60 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Elouise: 35 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Queen: 38 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Carrie: 175 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Vernell: 21 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Rosa: 196 babies, 7× the national rate
Lucile: 31 babies, 6.9× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 25 babies, 33.9× the national rate
Furman: 20 babies, 28.5× the national rate
Olin: 46 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Oneal: 15 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Rosevelt: 18 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Solomon: 27 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Elijah: 39 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Ulysses: 18 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Sammie: 43 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Roosevelt: 94 babies, 7.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	1,548	–	1
2	Betty	788	–	5
3	Shirley	515	–	4
4	Barbara	510	↑1	2
5	Dorothy	503	↓1	8
6	Annie	400	–	46
7	Margaret	390	–	10
8	Frances	280	↑1	19
9	Sarah	279	↑3	65
10	Martha	276	↑1	24
11	Elizabeth	273	↓3	17
12	Doris	225	↑1	22
13	Helen	223	↓3	12
14	Patricia	210	–	3
15	Carolyn	209	↑8	20
16	Willie	202	↑4	>100
17	Ruth	201	↑7	15
18	Nancy	196	↑7	7
19	Rosa	196	↑3	>100
20	Ruby	196	↓4	52
21	Lillie	183	↓6	>100
22	Mildred	183	↓5	43
23	Evelyn	180	↓5	36
24	Carrie	175	↑4	>100
25	Louise	172	↓6	48
26	Virginia	172	↓5	16
27	Peggy	169	–	31
28	Joyce	146	↓2	11
29	Emma	141	↑3	89
30	Ethel	139	↑8	88
31	Mattie	136	↑12	>100
32	Thelma	136	↓2	78
33	Julia	132	↑1	>100
34	Catherine	130	↓3	47
35	Shelby	126	new	>100
36	Sylvia	125	–	50
37	Alice	124	↓8	28
38	Bobbie	119	↑8	>100
39	Jessie	119	↓6	>100
40	Edna	118	↓5	74
41	Bertha	108	new	>100
42	Bernice	107	new	>100
43	Ida	107	new	>100
44	Gladys	105	↓2	86
45	Marie	103	new	35
46	Minnie	103	↑3	>100
47	Sara	102	↓6	>100
48	Hattie	101	↓11	>100
49	Edith	100	new	96
50	Rebecca	98	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	James	1,659	–	2
2	John	944	–	3
3	William	919	–	4
4	Robert	787	–	1
5	Willie	613	–	32
6	Charles	600	–	6
7	Thomas	397	–	9
8	Joe	360	↑1	25
9	George	345	↓1	10
10	Bobby	338	–	24
11	David	330	↑1	8
12	Henry	291	↑1	30
13	Joseph	279	↓2	12
14	Richard	249	↑2	5
15	Billy	229	↓1	22
16	Harold	222	↑2	21
17	Edward	214	↓2	13
18	Leroy	201	↑3	56
19	Donald	192	–	7
20	Frank	184	↓3	18
21	Samuel	182	↑1	66
22	Walter	162	↓2	26
23	Jerry	148	↑7	17
24	Arthur	142	↑7	31
25	Jimmy	142	–	45
26	Paul	140	↓3	15
27	Jack	136	↓3	23
28	Eugene	131	↑1	33
29	Kenneth	130	↑10	14
30	Marion	125	↑4	>100
31	Harry	118	↑1	41
32	Johnny	118	↓6	69
33	Albert	114	↓5	37
34	Fred	112	↓7	35
35	Charlie	111	↑3	>100
36	Ernest	111	↑7	53
37	Carl	110	↑4	28
38	Franklin	104	↓5	77
39	Herbert	104	↓3	65
40	Ralph	103	new	34
41	Larry	102	new	16
42	Clarence	98	↓7	54
43	Raymond	96	↑2	19
44	Roosevelt	94	↓2	>100
45	Benjamin	93	↑5	>100
46	Jimmie	91	↓9	72
47	Johnnie	90	↓7	>100
48	Nathaniel	83	–	>100
49	Eddie	79	↓5	83
50	Melvin	78	↓3	50

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