Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1941

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1941 were Mary for girls (1,626 babies) and James for boys (1,881). Social Security records list 44,227 babies born in South Carolina in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1941

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: 33 babies, 35.4× the national rate
Blondell: 18 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Albertha: 35 babies, 26.5× the national rate
Wilhelmenia: 17 babies, 26.1× the national rate
Elease: 19 babies, 22.2× the national rate
Jannie: 68 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Queen: 31 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Lucile: 31 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Pearline: 17 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Vernell: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 15 babies, 33.9× the national rate
Hazel: 15 babies, 28.3× the national rate
Furman: 18 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Levern: 15 babies, 24.2× the national rate
Maxie: 19 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Isaiah: 22 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Abraham: 34 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Elijah: 41 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Isiah: 17 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Moses: 45 babies, 9.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Mary	1,626	–	1
2	Betty	734	–	7
3	Barbara	580	–	2
4	Patricia	461	↑4	3
5	Dorothy	442	↓1	14
6	Linda	431	↑4	5
7	Shirley	409	↓2	10
8	Annie	403	↓2	59
9	Margaret	343	↓2	12
10	Carolyn	342	↑3	11
11	Martha	338	↓2	25
12	Frances	279	↓1	31
13	Elizabeth	277	↓1	21
14	Helen	266	–	24
15	Nancy	263	↑1	8
16	Sarah	253	↓1	60
17	Brenda	241	↑11	41
18	Virginia	216	–	23
19	Joyce	210	↑2	13
20	Ruth	196	–	28
21	Rosa	195	↓2	>100
22	Ruby	183	–	69
23	Peggy	181	↑4	39
24	Doris	177	↓7	38
25	Lillie	172	↑1	>100
26	Mildred	165	↓1	64
27	Evelyn	164	↑2	50
28	Judy	158	↑12	16
29	Gloria	157	↑4	26
30	Louise	154	↑4	62
31	Sandra	153	↓1	9
32	Willie	151	↓9	>100
33	Alice	142	↓9	34
34	Ethel	136	↑15	>100
35	Julia	133	↑13	88
36	Rebecca	132	↓1	86
37	Edna	126	↑9	89
38	Patsy	124	↓1	52
39	Mattie	122	↑2	>100
40	Sylvia	122	↓1	65
41	Sara	120	↓5	>100
42	Emma	119	↓10	99
43	Carrie	112	↓12	>100
44	Thelma	112	↓1	>100
45	Minnie	111	↓7	>100
46	Judith	109	new	6
47	Jessie	107	new	>100
48	Ella	105	↑2	>100
49	Carol	101	new	4
50	Ann	99	new	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	James	1,881	–	1
2	John	1,058	–	3
3	William	1,024	–	4
4	Robert	917	–	2
5	Charles	681	↑1	6
6	Willie	589	↓1	36
7	Thomas	462	–	8
8	George	433	–	13
9	David	415	–	7
10	Henry	364	↑1	28
11	Joseph	328	↓1	12
12	Joe	293	↑2	30
13	Bobby	270	↓1	35
14	Larry	259	↑4	11
15	Edward	254	↑2	17
16	Jerry	248	↓1	14
17	Richard	248	↓4	5
18	Billy	223	↑1	27
19	Johnny	221	↑1	55
20	Leroy	220	↑5	67
21	Donald	214	↓5	10
22	Jimmy	192	↑4	45
23	Harold	190	↓2	24
24	Samuel	187	↓2	65
25	Frank	183	↓2	21
26	Walter	183	↓2	26
27	Kenneth	168	–	15
28	Paul	167	–	18
29	Harry	135	↑3	48
30	Ronald	133	↑16	9
31	Roy	128	↑13	39
32	Eugene	127	↓3	42
33	Arthur	126	↓2	33
34	Marion	126	↑7	>100
35	Eddie	124	↑12	78
36	Albert	123	↓2	40
37	Herbert	123	↑8	76
38	Ernest	121	↓1	61
39	Fred	121	↓4	43
40	Jack	120	↓2	32
41	Wayne	115	new	37
42	Ralph	110	new	38
43	Charlie	109	↓4	>100
44	Johnnie	109	↓4	>100
45	Tommy	109	new	71
46	Nathaniel	107	↓3	>100
47	Carl	106	↓11	29
48	Franklin	105	–	98
49	Melvin	97	↓7	56
50	Benjamin	96	new	>100

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