Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1942

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1942 were Mary for girls (1,634 babies) and James for boys (2,001). Social Security records list 47,583 babies born in South Carolina in 1942 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1942

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, 26.7× the national rate
Albertha: 35 babies, 26.5× the national rate
Elease: 23 babies, 22.1× the national rate
Eartha: 24 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Jannie: 69 babies, 15× the national rate
Vernell: 22 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Queen: 31 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Hattie: 104 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Sadie: 60 babies, 7.5× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 16 babies, 38.7× the national rate
Furman: 16 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Maxie: 24 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Isiah: 23 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Olin: 22 babies, 13× the national rate
Isaiah: 19 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Boyce: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Moses: 45 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Abraham: 38 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Elijah: 39 babies, 9.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1942

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Mary	1,634	–	1
2	Betty	716	–	9
3	Barbara	668	–	2
4	Linda	543	↑2	4
5	Dorothy	510	–	17
6	Patricia	491	↓2	3
7	Shirley	430	–	12
8	Margaret	387	↑1	14
9	Carolyn	381	↑1	10
10	Annie	380	↓2	62
11	Brenda	375	↑6	40
12	Martha	362	↓1	29
13	Nancy	304	↑2	8
14	Elizabeth	300	↓1	22
15	Frances	299	↓3	30
16	Sarah	267	–	67
17	Sandra	260	↑14	6
18	Helen	253	↓4	26
19	Joyce	238	–	13
20	Doris	222	↑4	41
21	Judy	217	↑7	15
22	Virginia	208	↓4	23
23	Rosa	192	↓2	>100
24	Louise	180	↑6	61
25	Willie	180	↑7	>100
26	Peggy	175	↓3	42
27	Mildred	165	↓1	71
28	Lillie	159	↓3	>100
29	Ruby	159	↓7	77
30	Emma	157	↑12	>100
31	Alice	150	↑2	39
32	Gloria	146	↓3	31
33	Ruth	146	↓13	33
34	Evelyn	144	↓7	53
35	Mattie	141	↑4	>100
36	Rebecca	140	–	85
37	Judith	136	↑9	7
38	Carol	134	↑11	5
39	Sara	129	↑2	>100
40	Patsy	126	↓2	57
41	Carrie	125	↑2	>100
42	Minnie	125	↑3	>100
43	Sylvia	122	↓3	72
44	Julia	120	↓9	95
45	Ann	116	↑5	38
46	Marie	113	new	43
47	Catherine	111	new	49
48	Ethel	110	↓14	>100
49	Thelma	109	↓5	>100
50	Hattie	104	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	James	2,001	–	1
2	William	1,129	↑1	4
3	John	1,107	↓1	3
4	Robert	964	–	2
5	Charles	734	–	7
6	Willie	658	–	37
7	Thomas	538	–	8
8	George	476	–	14
9	David	412	–	6
10	Joseph	355	↑1	11
11	Henry	335	↓1	31
12	Richard	325	↑5	5
13	Joe	297	↓1	33
14	Bobby	293	↓1	43
15	Jerry	291	↑1	16
16	Jimmy	270	↑6	47
17	Edward	265	↓2	17
18	Larry	258	↓4	12
19	Douglas	257	new	23
20	Johnny	239	↓1	55
21	Leroy	217	↓1	69
22	Harold	216	↑1	27
23	Samuel	211	↑1	59
24	Billy	210	↓6	35
25	Donald	208	↓4	10
26	Walter	205	–	26
27	Frank	183	↓2	21
28	Harry	163	↑1	48
29	Ronald	160	↑1	9
30	Kenneth	156	↓3	15
31	Paul	155	↓3	19
32	Ernest	145	↑6	61
33	Arthur	143	–	29
34	Carl	130	↑13	36
35	Marion	129	↓1	>100
36	Albert	128	–	40
37	Eugene	128	↓5	45
38	Raymond	128	new	24
39	Herbert	121	↓2	83
40	Charlie	117	↑3	>100
41	Melvin	116	↑8	60
42	Clarence	115	new	67
43	Fred	115	↓4	46
44	Roy	115	↓13	42
45	Tommy	114	–	73
46	Franklin	112	↑2	>100
47	Jack	111	↓7	34
48	Eddie	110	↓13	86
49	Johnnie	110	↓5	>100
50	Wayne	110	↓9	41

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