Popular baby names in South Carolina, 1945

The most popular baby names in South Carolina in 1945 were Mary for girls (1,548 babies) and James for boys (1,931). Social Security records list 46,464 babies born in South Carolina in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Carolina in 1945

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: 37 babies, 31.9× the national rate
Elease: 21 babies, 31× the national rate
Blondell: 16 babies, 30.9× the national rate
Thomasina: 21 babies, 21.8× the national rate
Albertha: 23 babies, 20.8× the national rate
Jannie: 72 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Eliza: 32 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Elouise: 29 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Pearline: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Queen: 30 babies, 8.6× the national rate

Boys

Heyward: 23 babies, 41.8× the national rate
Isiah: 18 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Abraham: 36 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Elijah: 35 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Isaac: 67 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Moses: 31 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Marion: 109 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Alphonso: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Nathaniel: 106 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Sammie: 51 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Carolina, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Mary	1,548	–	1
2	Betty	717	–	11
3	Linda	653	–	2
4	Barbara	629	–	3
5	Patricia	507	–	4
6	Dorothy	439	↑1	21
7	Shirley	423	↓1	14
8	Margaret	380	↑2	15
9	Carolyn	364	↓1	12
10	Brenda	362	↓1	29
11	Martha	332	↑2	30
12	Annie	330	–	69
13	Sandra	327	↓2	6
14	Elizabeth	288	↑1	26
15	Judy	286	↑3	13
16	Frances	284	↑1	34
17	Nancy	266	↓3	7
18	Gloria	247	↑7	23
19	Sarah	235	–	76
20	Joyce	226	↓4	18
21	Helen	222	↓1	31
22	Rosa	205	↑2	>100
23	Doris	189	↓1	46
24	Virginia	183	↓3	28
25	Carol	180	↓2	5
26	Mildred	157	↑2	93
27	Peggy	150	–	45
28	Willie	150	↓2	>100
29	Evelyn	144	↑4	57
30	Ruby	140	↑1	95
31	Alice	135	↓2	41
32	Louise	132	↑3	78
33	Lillie	131	↓3	>100
34	Janice	129	new	24
35	Sylvia	127	↑13	83
36	Ruth	126	↓4	33
37	Ethel	125	↑2	>100
38	Rebecca	125	↓4	85
39	Catherine	124	↑2	50
40	Judith	122	↓3	9
41	Emma	121	new	>100
42	Julia	110	↓6	>100
43	Hattie	109	↓1	>100
44	Patsy	109	↑6	84
45	Minnie	108	–	>100
46	Ann	105	↓6	39
47	Susan	105	new	10
48	Carrie	103	↓10	>100
49	Donna	103	new	17
50	Rose	102	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	James	1,931	–	1
2	John	1,106	–	3
3	Robert	1,012	↑1	2
4	William	1,003	↓1	4
5	Charles	672	–	7
6	Willie	626	–	31
7	Thomas	491	–	8
8	David	483	–	6
9	George	461	–	15
10	Richard	404	–	5
11	Joseph	363	–	14
12	Larry	339	–	11
13	Henry	293	–	37
14	Johnny	289	↑1	45
15	Jerry	275	↑2	20
16	Jimmy	246	↑4	41
17	Edward	228	↓3	18
18	Leroy	228	↑1	83
19	Bobby	226	↓3	53
20	Donald	221	↓2	12
21	Michael	220	↑10	9
22	Kenneth	208	↑3	16
23	Harry	205	↑11	47
24	Joe	203	↓3	36
25	Frank	189	↓2	21
26	Harold	185	↓4	28
27	Billy	181	↓3	42
28	Walter	180	–	27
29	Paul	175	↓2	17
30	Ronald	173	↓1	10
31	Samuel	169	↓5	62
32	Ernest	139	↓2	60
33	Eugene	139	↑7	50
34	Eddie	137	↑7	81
35	Arthur	136	↓3	34
36	Albert	134	↓1	49
37	Carl	123	↑5	39
38	Tommy	122	↓2	75
39	Raymond	121	↓6	23
40	Charlie	117	↑4	>100
41	Roger	117	↑8	22
42	Herbert	116	new	94
43	Clarence	114	↓6	82
44	Roy	114	↓6	40
45	Douglas	109	↑3	29
46	Marion	109	↓1	>100
47	Benjamin	108	–	>100
48	Daniel	106	new	24
49	Nathaniel	106	↓3	>100
50	Jack	104	↓11	32

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