Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1915

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1915 were Mary for girls (1,515 babies) and James for boys (1,604). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 39,024 babies born in Tennessee in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1915

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

Girls

Hassie: 16 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Robbie: 34 babies, 8× the national rate
Rubye: 34 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Nelle: 19 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Nannie: 77 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Georgie: 25 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Lennie: 15 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Bobbie: 23 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Roxie: 33 babies, 5× the national rate
Gracie: 44 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Boys

Buford: 34 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Otha: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Hershel: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Houston: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Will: 36 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Noah: 18 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Odell: 22 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Billie: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Thurman: 27 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Hollis: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	1,515	–	1
2	Ruby	419	–	24
3	Margaret	413	↑1	4
4	Ruth	399	↓1	5
5	Mildred	355	–	6
6	Frances	328	↑3	9
7	Elizabeth	325	↓1	8
8	Dorothy	324	–	3
9	Martha	301	↑3	25
10	Annie	292	↓3	36
11	Helen	284	↑4	2
12	Louise	276	↓2	18
13	Willie	254	↓2	72
14	Virginia	246	↑5	12
15	Gladys	245	↑2	21
16	Edna	233	↓3	20
17	Anna	231	↑1	7
18	Pauline	220	↑5	32
19	Hazel	214	↓5	26
20	Edith	209	↑5	31
21	Thelma	209	↓1	30
22	Ethel	195	↓1	23
23	Evelyn	185	↑4	10
24	Lucille	185	↓2	29
25	Bessie	181	↑3	57
26	Mattie	178	↓10	91
27	Sarah	175	↓3	51
28	Lillian	172	↓2	15
29	Grace	158	↑2	27
30	Myrtle	155	↑12	58
31	Marie	154	↑4	11
32	Katherine	153	↑8	49
33	Alice	152	↑3	13
34	Clara	149	↓4	38
35	Irene	148	↑9	17
36	Jessie	147	↓7	66
37	Lillie	147	↓5	84
38	Emma	140	–	40
39	Minnie	138	↓6	68
40	Beatrice	129	new	37
41	Maggie	125	↑5	>100
42	Bertha	124	↓5	46
43	Lois	124	new	47
44	Elsie	123	new	41
45	Nellie	121	↓11	63
46	Alma	120	↑1	70
47	Laura	117	↓8	61
48	Georgia	115	–	>100
49	Eva	112	↓4	55
50	Beulah	108	new	95

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	James	1,604	–	3
2	William	1,235	–	2
3	John	990	–	1
4	Robert	731	–	4
5	Charles	479	–	7
6	George	452	–	6
7	Thomas	370	–	10
8	Willie	292	–	30
9	Paul	235	↑3	13
10	Joe	219	↓1	38
11	Edward	215	–	8
12	Fred	213	↑1	26
13	Frank	209	↑1	9
14	Joseph	208	↑2	5
15	Roy	208	↑2	32
16	Henry	199	↓6	14
17	Walter	188	↓2	11
18	Carl	178	–	22
19	Clarence	161	↑3	24
20	Albert	152	↑11	17
21	David	149	↑7	31
22	Howard	145	↓2	25
23	Raymond	140	↓2	16
24	Earl	137	↑1	33
25	Charlie	132	↓6	75
26	Clyde	130	↑3	63
27	Ernest	126	↓4	35
28	Richard	125	↓4	15
29	Ralph	117	↓2	21
30	Jack	116	↓4	27
31	Samuel	115	↓1	39
32	Arthur	108	↑1	18
33	Harold	107	↑7	12
34	Claude	100	↑12	96
35	Jesse	99	↑10	77
36	Woodrow	94	↓4	83
37	Harry	92	–	19
38	Herman	92	↓4	56
39	Cecil	91	↓1	76
40	Eugene	90	↑4	41
41	Willard	89	new	58
42	Ray	87	new	67
43	Elmer	85	↑4	45
44	Herbert	84	↓8	40
45	Floyd	82	↓2	59
46	Hubert	81	new	>100
47	Jessie	79	↓8	>100
48	Homer	77	new	98
49	Sam	76	↓14	68
50	Lee	73	↓2	84

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