Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1918

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,909 babies) and James for boys (2,028). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 47,603 babies born in Tennessee in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1918

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

Girls

Trula: 18 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Tennie: 17 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Rubye: 44 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Robbie: 51 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Nelle: 23 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Sammie: 17 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Nannie: 71 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Bobbie: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Magnolia: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Birdie: 28 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Hobert: 23 babies, 7× the national rate
Buford: 30 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Odell: 28 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Coy: 26 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Clay: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Jeff: 20 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Hoyt: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Will: 34 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Everette: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Grady: 52 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,909	–	1
2	Margaret	600	–	4
3	Ruby	520	↑3	27
4	Mildred	506	↑1	6
5	Dorothy	475	↓2	3
6	Ruth	457	↓2	5
7	Helen	403	–	2
8	Frances	374	–	8
9	Virginia	368	↑2	7
10	Martha	365	–	25
11	Willie	334	↑3	70
12	Annie	329	↓3	36
13	Louise	327	↓1	18
14	Elizabeth	318	↓1	9
15	Gladys	308	–	22
16	Hazel	296	↑1	33
17	Edith	278	↓1	30
18	Anna	274	↑2	10
19	Edna	273	↓1	23
20	Pauline	266	↑1	35
21	Evelyn	252	↑2	11
22	Sarah	246	↑2	52
23	Thelma	236	↓4	32
24	Mattie	201	↓2	100
25	Lucille	196	–	29
26	Marie	195	↑14	12
27	Ethel	181	↑1	28
28	Jessie	177	↑17	75
29	Nellie	176	↑5	65
30	Lillian	175	↓4	15
31	Clara	174	–	43
32	Lillie	174	↑9	89
33	Bessie	171	↑4	61
34	Emma	169	↓7	46
35	Grace	167	–	31
36	Myrtle	162	↓4	62
37	Irene	160	↓8	16
38	Alice	159	↓5	13
39	Katherine	158	↓9	50
40	Minnie	155	↓4	88
41	Eva	148	↑9	55
42	Georgia	146	↓4	>100
43	Beatrice	145	↑1	40
44	Alma	137	new	73
45	Ida	137	↓2	57
46	Bertha	131	↑1	51
47	Ella	130	new	84
48	Lula	129	new	>100
49	Laura	126	new	64
50	Pearl	123	↓11	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	2,028	–	3
2	William	1,431	–	2
3	John	1,180	–	1
4	Robert	962	–	4
5	Charles	764	–	5
6	George	523	–	6
7	Thomas	465	–	10
8	Willie	320	–	29
9	Joe	311	–	34
10	Walter	273	–	11
11	Edward	258	↑2	8
12	Frank	258	↑2	9
13	Roy	256	↑4	32
14	Henry	255	↓2	16
15	Paul	254	↓4	14
16	Joseph	243	–	7
17	Fred	213	↓2	33
18	Clarence	204	–	23
19	Charlie	195	↑1	70
20	Raymond	195	↑4	15
21	Carl	192	↓2	25
22	Earl	179	↓1	31
23	Howard	176	↓1	26
24	Albert	172	↑2	19
25	Clyde	170	–	67
26	Jack	169	↑1	21
27	Ralph	168	↑2	22
28	Ernest	154	↓5	37
29	Eugene	145	↑5	35
30	Richard	145	↓2	12
31	Samuel	139	–	43
32	David	138	↑1	28
33	Harry	138	↑2	20
34	Jesse	134	↓4	78
35	Woodrow	125	↑3	58
36	Cecil	116	↑3	82
37	Arthur	112	↓5	17
38	Claude	111	↑2	95
39	Herman	109	↑2	65
40	Elmer	108	new	44
41	Floyd	108	↑3	61
42	Harold	108	↓6	13
43	Luther	105	new	>100
44	Herbert	102	↓7	40
45	Lawrence	101	↑2	38
46	Sam	100	–	75
47	Jessie	96	↓5	>100
48	Lee	90	↑1	86
49	Louis	87	new	24
50	Hubert	85	↓5	>100

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