Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1914

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1914 were Mary for girls (1,158 babies) and James for boys (1,196). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 30,041 babies born in Tennessee in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1914

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

Girls

Robbie: 33 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Nelle: 20 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Rubye: 26 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lou: 32 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Vergie: 15 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Artie: 17 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Tommie: 20 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Georgie: 22 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Nannie: 45 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Frankie: 28 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Buford: 26 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Thurman: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Johnie: 31 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jessie: 72 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Grady: 30 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Charlie: 129 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Guy: 38 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Will: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Grover: 26 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jimmie: 32 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	1,158	–	1
2	Ruby	320	–	24
3	Ruth	308	–	5
4	Margaret	304	↑1	4
5	Mildred	254	↓1	7
6	Elizabeth	253	↑1	8
7	Annie	241	↓1	33
8	Dorothy	230	↑2	3
9	Frances	226	↑3	9
10	Louise	225	↓1	17
11	Willie	224	↑4	66
12	Martha	223	↑4	27
13	Edna	222	–	19
14	Hazel	214	–	29
15	Helen	212	↓4	2
16	Mattie	184	↑7	78
17	Gladys	181	↓9	20
18	Anna	177	↑9	6
19	Virginia	169	↑1	14
20	Thelma	162	↓3	26
21	Ethel	158	–	21
22	Lucille	156	↑3	30
23	Pauline	155	↓4	34
24	Sarah	150	↑4	47
25	Edith	144	↓3	31
26	Lillian	140	↑3	16
27	Evelyn	136	↑8	11
28	Bessie	131	↓10	55
29	Jessie	125	↑1	64
30	Clara	124	↑4	37
31	Grace	120	↓7	25
32	Lillie	120	↑5	74
33	Minnie	119	↑6	67
34	Nellie	119	↑4	61
35	Marie	117	↓2	10
36	Alice	111	↑5	12
37	Bertha	111	new	41
38	Emma	109	↑2	39
39	Laura	108	new	59
40	Katherine	106	↓8	48
41	Pearl	106	↓10	56
42	Myrtle	102	↓16	60
43	Hattie	101	↑6	97
44	Irene	95	↓2	22
45	Eva	93	↑5	52
46	Maggie	93	new	>100
47	Alma	92	new	69
48	Georgia	91	↓12	>100
49	Ida	89	↓3	49
50	Fannie	87	↓5	99

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	James	1,196	–	3
2	William	930	–	2
3	John	782	–	1
4	Robert	559	–	4
5	Charles	388	–	7
6	George	365	–	6
7	Thomas	293	–	11
8	Willie	231	–	25
9	Joe	193	↑3	34
10	Henry	174	↓1	12
11	Edward	163	–	8
12	Paul	162	↑4	13
13	Fred	157	↑5	28
14	Frank	156	↓4	9
15	Walter	155	↓2	10
16	Joseph	153	↓2	5
17	Roy	149	↓2	32
18	Carl	132	↑6	24
19	Charlie	129	↓2	65
20	Howard	118	↓1	26
21	Raymond	114	↑2	16
22	Clarence	113	–	22
23	Ernest	112	↑2	38
24	Richard	111	↑10	17
25	Earl	104	↑3	33
26	Jack	104	↑1	27
27	Ralph	103	↑13	21
28	David	98	↑3	29
29	Clyde	95	↑8	63
30	Samuel	90	↓1	36
31	Albert	87	↓10	15
32	Woodrow	87	↓12	71
33	Arthur	82	–	18
34	Herman	81	↑4	51
35	Sam	81	↑7	67
36	Herbert	79	↑7	42
37	Harry	76	↓11	19
38	Cecil	72	new	79
39	Jessie	72	↑8	>100
40	Harold	69	↑10	14
41	Leonard	69	new	45
42	Andrew	67	new	44
43	Floyd	67	↓13	58
44	Eugene	64	↑4	43
45	Jesse	63	↓6	82
46	Claude	62	↓10	93
47	Elmer	60	↓15	46
48	Lee	59	↓4	84
49	Lawrence	57	–	35
50	Oscar	57	new	77

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