Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1922

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1922 were Mary for girls (2,245 babies) and James for boys (2,453). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 52,796 babies born in Tennessee in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1922

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, 15.7× the national rate
Rubye: 40 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Nelle: 16 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Linnie: 22 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Robbie: 34 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Georgie: 32 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Era: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Joe: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Nell: 72 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Freddie: 20 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Carson: 22 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Edd: 19 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Hobert: 25 babies, 6× the national rate
Houston: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Buford: 36 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Will: 39 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Arlie: 16 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Grady: 57 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Hoyt: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Odell: 34 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	2,245	–	1
2	Dorothy	887	–	2
3	Margaret	657	–	4
4	Mildred	564	–	8
5	Helen	543	–	3
6	Ruth	489	↑1	5
7	Ruby	482	↓1	26
8	Frances	459	–	10
9	Virginia	455	–	7
10	Martha	421	–	21
11	Annie	393	–	30
12	Elizabeth	371	–	9
13	Louise	321	↑3	22
14	Willie	317	↑3	70
15	Evelyn	312	↓1	13
16	Edna	311	↓1	29
17	Gladys	310	↓4	25
18	Pauline	267	↑5	36
19	Anna	263	–	12
20	Hazel	263	↓2	37
21	Thelma	254	↓1	31
22	Edith	248	–	34
23	Sarah	236	↓2	51
24	Lillian	227	↑1	19
25	Marie	210	↓1	14
26	Mattie	210	–	>100
27	Juanita	189	–	57
28	Irene	188	↑3	17
29	Betty	185	↑10	6
30	Clara	185	↑7	47
31	Alice	184	↓2	15
32	Emma	183	↓2	50
33	Lucille	177	–	33
34	Ethel	176	↓2	32
35	Katherine	172	↓7	54
36	Bessie	163	↑5	81
37	Jessie	156	↑1	87
38	Georgia	155	↓3	>100
39	Marjorie	146	new	16
40	Geneva	144	↓4	>100
41	Myrtle	144	↑1	75
42	Nellie	144	↓2	83
43	Eva	142	–	64
44	Lillie	142	↓10	85
45	Ida	141	new	65
46	Laura	141	new	68
47	Opal	141	↓2	>100
48	Doris	140	↑2	11
49	Alma	137	↓2	84
50	Lois	134	new	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	2,453	–	4
2	William	1,685	–	3
3	John	1,274	–	1
4	Robert	1,022	–	2
5	Charles	895	–	5
6	George	560	–	6
7	Thomas	504	–	11
8	Paul	322	↑3	14
9	Edward	312	↓1	8
10	Joe	305	↓1	35
11	Henry	304	↑3	17
12	Willie	291	–	28
13	Roy	271	–	32
14	Walter	262	↑2	15
15	Carl	255	–	30
16	Fred	250	↑1	33
17	Jack	242	↑3	18
18	Frank	237	↓8	10
19	Joseph	237	↓1	7
20	Howard	234	↓1	26
21	Clarence	226	↑1	29
22	Raymond	194	↑2	16
23	Albert	189	↑4	20
24	Eugene	186	↑10	25
25	Ralph	184	↓2	23
26	Samuel	180	↑12	43
27	Ernest	179	↑3	37
28	Harold	176	–	13
29	Earl	175	↓4	31
30	Richard	175	↓4	9
31	Charlie	165	↑4	72
32	Clyde	163	–	67
33	David	163	↓4	24
34	Kenneth	155	↑5	21
35	Harry	148	↓4	22
36	Arthur	136	↓3	19
37	Claude	130	–	97
38	Ray	123	↑3	65
39	Jesse	119	↑1	81
40	Elmer	117	↑6	54
41	Cecil	116	↑3	85
42	Herman	109	↓6	66
43	Warren	108	↓22	45
44	Jessie	107	new	>100
45	Andrew	103	new	53
46	Floyd	100	↓3	61
47	Clifford	99	new	63
48	Marvin	99	↑1	56
49	Luther	98	↓2	>100
50	Billy	96	new	90

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