Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1921

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1921 were Mary for girls (2,256 babies) and James for boys (2,486). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 53,148 babies born in Tennessee in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1921

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: 17 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Nelle: 26 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Robbie: 45 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Evie: 17 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Rubye: 35 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Georgie: 34 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Novella: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Reba: 95 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Dovie: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Freddie: 18 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Edd: 20 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Haskell: 15 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Buford: 49 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Hobert: 21 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Will: 43 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Arlie: 19 babies, 5× the national rate
Clay: 18 babies, 5× the national rate
Houston: 18 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Wilburn: 29 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Wiley: 29 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	2,256	–	1
2	Dorothy	812	–	2
3	Margaret	661	–	4
4	Mildred	619	–	7
5	Helen	532	↑2	3
6	Ruby	506	↓1	26
7	Ruth	496	↓1	5
8	Frances	481	–	9
9	Virginia	443	–	6
10	Martha	420	–	21
11	Annie	394	–	36
12	Elizabeth	348	↑2	10
13	Gladys	326	–	24
14	Evelyn	307	↑3	12
15	Edna	303	↑4	27
16	Louise	298	↓1	22
17	Willie	295	↓5	74
18	Hazel	292	–	34
19	Anna	281	↑3	11
20	Thelma	274	↓4	30
21	Sarah	250	↑3	54
22	Edith	239	↓2	33
23	Pauline	236	↓2	37
24	Marie	233	↑1	14
25	Lillian	225	↓2	19
26	Mattie	202	↑2	>100
27	Juanita	196	↑11	57
28	Katherine	194	↑3	49
29	Alice	187	↓3	15
30	Emma	186	↑2	52
31	Irene	182	↓2	18
32	Ethel	174	↑1	32
33	Lucille	169	↓6	31
34	Lillie	168	↓4	94
35	Georgia	161	↑10	>100
36	Geneva	160	↑6	>100
37	Clara	159	↓2	45
38	Jessie	157	↑2	91
39	Betty	153	↑5	8
40	Nellie	152	↓6	80
41	Bessie	150	↓4	75
42	Myrtle	150	↓3	73
43	Eva	146	↓2	63
44	Minnie	145	↓8	96
45	Opal	145	new	>100
46	Grace	140	↑3	35
47	Alma	138	↑3	78
48	Ella	138	new	89
49	Beatrice	133	↓3	41
50	Doris	133	new	13

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	James	2,486	–	4
2	William	1,693	–	3
3	John	1,222	–	1
4	Robert	1,021	–	2
5	Charles	808	–	5
6	George	523	–	6
7	Thomas	518	–	11
8	Edward	337	↑2	8
9	Joe	330	↑3	36
10	Frank	317	↑5	9
11	Paul	310	↑2	14
12	Willie	301	↓3	34
13	Roy	283	↑1	32
14	Henry	276	↓6	17
15	Carl	263	↑4	30
16	Walter	249	↓5	15
17	Fred	246	↓1	33
18	Joseph	240	↓1	7
19	Howard	222	↑6	27
20	Jack	219	↑3	18
21	Warren	215	↑5	24
22	Clarence	213	↓4	28
23	Ralph	198	↑8	23
24	Raymond	198	↓4	16
25	Earl	196	↓4	31
26	Richard	195	↓4	10
27	Albert	188	↓3	20
28	Harold	188	↑1	12
29	David	182	↓2	25
30	Ernest	170	↑3	38
31	Harry	167	↑3	21
32	Clyde	162	–	69
33	Arthur	150	↑2	19
34	Eugene	147	↓6	26
35	Charlie	143	↓5	76
36	Herman	143	↑9	64
37	Claude	134	↑3	96
38	Samuel	131	↓1	44
39	Kenneth	126	↑11	22
40	Jesse	120	↓1	77
41	Ray	119	↓5	67
42	Herbert	117	↑1	42
43	Floyd	114	↓1	63
44	Cecil	110	↓6	79
45	Leonard	108	↓4	39
46	Elmer	107	↑2	48
47	Luther	104	new	>100
48	Sam	103	↓4	85
49	Marvin	100	new	59
50	Lawrence	99	↓4	37

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