Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1944

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1944 were Mary for girls (1,606 babies) and James for boys (2,043). Social Security records list 47,720 babies born in South Carolina in 1944 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1944

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

Albertha: 44 babies, 29.9× the national rate
Eartha: 20 babies, 25.9× the national rate
Blondell: 15 babies, 22× the national rate
Jannie: 84 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Elouise: 27 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Mamie: 91 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Vernell: 18 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lizzie: 38 babies, 8× the national rate
Eliza: 19 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Hattie: 106 babies, 7.8× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 23 babies, 46.9× the national rate
Hazel: 16 babies, 30.4× the national rate
Furman: 19 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Olin: 19 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Isaiah: 20 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Elijah: 46 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Isiah: 19 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Abraham: 30 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Sammie: 64 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Moses: 39 babies, 8.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	1,606	–	1
2	Betty	757	–	10
3	Linda	632	–	3
4	Barbara	621	–	2
5	Patricia	516	–	4
6	Shirley	463	↑2	15
7	Dorothy	455	↓1	19
8	Carolyn	437	↑3	11
9	Brenda	421	↓2	30
10	Margaret	391	↑2	14
11	Sandra	362	↑5	6
12	Annie	319	↓2	71
13	Martha	318	↓4	29
14	Nancy	315	↓1	7
15	Elizabeth	293	↓1	23
16	Joyce	288	↑2	18
17	Frances	277	↓2	33
18	Judy	277	↑2	12
19	Sarah	268	–	67
20	Helen	236	↓3	31
21	Virginia	205	↑3	26
22	Doris	199	↑1	42
23	Carol	198	↑9	5
24	Rosa	197	↓2	>100
25	Gloria	194	↑2	25
26	Willie	181	↓1	>100
27	Peggy	174	↓6	45
28	Mildred	171	↑1	81
29	Alice	161	↓3	38
30	Lillie	160	–	>100
31	Ruby	153	–	87
32	Ruth	148	↓4	32
33	Evelyn	139	↑1	57
34	Rebecca	134	↑5	84
35	Louise	133	↓2	69
36	Julia	129	↑1	>100
37	Judith	126	↓1	9
38	Carrie	124	↑7	>100
39	Ethel	113	↑2	>100
40	Ann	111	–	39
41	Catherine	107	↑2	49
42	Hattie	106	new	>100
43	Mattie	105	new	>100
44	Joan	103	new	22
45	Minnie	103	↑2	>100
46	Thelma	103	–	>100
47	Sara	102	↓3	>100
48	Sylvia	102	↓6	83
49	Ella	99	new	>100
50	Patsy	99	↓15	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	James	2,043	–	1
2	John	1,096	–	3
3	William	1,055	–	4
4	Robert	976	–	2
5	Charles	748	–	7
6	Willie	640	–	31
7	Thomas	508	–	8
8	David	498	–	6
9	George	484	–	14
10	Richard	395	↑1	5
11	Joseph	346	↓1	13
12	Larry	337	↑1	12
13	Henry	297	↓1	35
14	Edward	284	↑1	18
15	Johnny	277	↑2	45
16	Bobby	258	–	50
17	Jerry	250	↓3	19
18	Donald	243	–	11
19	Leroy	234	↑2	78
20	Jimmy	233	↓1	41
21	Joe	225	↓1	33
22	Harold	218	↑4	27
23	Frank	209	↑5	21
24	Billy	197	↓1	38
25	Kenneth	196	↑4	16
26	Samuel	195	↓1	62
27	Paul	192	–	17
28	Walter	189	↓4	26
29	Ronald	185	↓7	10
30	Ernest	175	↑4	59
31	Michael	150	↑16	9
32	Arthur	149	↓2	29
33	Raymond	140	↑7	22
34	Harry	138	↓3	49
35	Albert	137	↓2	44
36	Tommy	132	↑5	70
37	Clarence	130	↓2	74
38	Roy	130	↓6	39
39	Jack	124	↑4	30
40	Eugene	122	↓4	48
41	Eddie	121	↓3	79
42	Carl	120	new	36
43	Fred	120	↑2	47
44	Charlie	119	↑4	>100
45	Marion	116	↓6	>100
46	Nathaniel	116	↑4	>100
47	Benjamin	113	new	>100
48	Douglas	112	↓6	34
49	Roger	111	↓3	23
50	Ralph	107	↓1	42

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