Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1912

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1912 were Mary for girls (869 babies) and James for boys (792). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,234 babies born in Tennessee in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1912

Names given at least 15 times in Tennessee that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Nelle: 19 babies, 8× the national rate
Rubye: 25 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Robbie: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Nannie: 54 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Cecil: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Georgie: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Bonnie: 63 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Gertie: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Dovie: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Nell: 44 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Buford: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Mack: 28 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Johnie: 29 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Grady: 23 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Luther: 59 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Wade: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Tommie: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Bill: 25 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Ed: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Dave: 15 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	869	–	1
2	Ruby	275	–	23
3	Ruth	234	–	5
4	Annie	232	–	27
5	Margaret	214	↑1	4
6	Mildred	194	↓1	6
7	Edna	175	↑6	16
8	Louise	174	–	17
9	Willie	168	–	61
10	Elizabeth	167	↓3	8
11	Gladys	164	↓1	19
12	Dorothy	163	↑11	3
13	Bessie	153	↓1	43
14	Mattie	153	–	70
15	Thelma	146	↑1	26
16	Martha	143	↓5	29
17	Virginia	143	↑7	20
18	Anna	142	↑3	7
19	Frances	136	↑3	9
20	Hazel	136	↓1	25
21	Ethel	133	↓6	18
22	Edith	124	↑10	31
23	Helen	124	↑2	2
24	Sarah	124	↓7	41
25	Lillian	119	↑6	14
26	Pauline	117	↑4	38
27	Jessie	115	↑10	65
28	Clara	114	↑10	34
29	Lillie	112	↓3	67
30	Pearl	111	↑10	54
31	Bertha	108	↑11	36
32	Grace	107	↓4	24
33	Alice	103	new	11
34	Evelyn	98	↑9	13
35	Myrtle	98	↓6	50
36	Marie	97	↓3	10
37	Irene	96	↑7	22
38	Lucille	96	↓20	32
39	Nellie	95	↑2	59
40	Emma	94	↓20	35
41	Georgia	92	↓5	>100
42	Minnie	89	↓15	60
43	Beulah	88	↑6	80
44	Carrie	85	↑6	82
45	Elsie	84	↑1	42
46	Katherine	82	new	53
47	Maggie	80	↓8	>100
48	Ella	78	new	69
49	Alma	75	new	62
50	Fannie	75	new	87

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	792	–	3
2	William	575	–	2
3	John	550	–	1
4	Robert	382	–	4
5	George	256	–	6
6	Charles	224	–	7
7	Thomas	180	↑2	10
8	Frank	163	↑5	9
9	Willie	155	↓2	22
10	Edward	129	↑5	8
11	Joe	126	–	36
12	Joseph	124	↑6	5
13	Walter	123	↓1	11
14	Henry	117	↓6	12
15	Paul	99	↑4	14
16	Roy	99	↓6	31
17	Albert	98	↑3	17
18	Clarence	97	↓2	21
19	Fred	96	↓2	26
20	Carl	88	↑1	24
21	Howard	85	↑8	25
22	Charlie	83	↓8	57
23	Jack	83	↑2	28
24	Raymond	83	↑6	18
25	Ernest	79	↓1	32
26	Clyde	78	↑2	65
27	Woodrow	70	new	46
28	Richard	67	↓5	19
29	Arthur	65	↑2	15
30	David	64	↑2	29
31	Harry	64	↓5	16
32	Samuel	64	↓5	30
33	Earl	63	↓11	34
34	Luther	59	new	>100
35	Jesse	57	↑1	74
36	Louis	54	new	20
37	Ralph	53	↓4	23
38	Claude	52	↑2	89
39	Eugene	47	↑2	41
40	Harold	46	new	13
41	Leonard	46	↑7	45
42	Sam	46	↓4	63
43	Cecil	45	↑1	76
44	Herman	45	↓9	50
45	Ben	44	↓2	>100
46	Lee	44	↑1	78
47	Elmer	43	↓13	47
48	Floyd	43	new	59
49	Lawrence	42	new	38
50	Oscar	41	new	73

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