Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1924

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1924 were Mary for girls (2,474 babies) and James for boys (2,494). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 55,029 babies born in Tennessee in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1924

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: 16 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Dimple: 23 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Willene: 15 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Robbie: 53 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Rubye: 32 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Lona: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Freddie: 24 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Cecil: 20 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Novella: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Maudie: 33 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Conley: 15 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Kyle: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Buford: 49 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Houston: 22 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Will: 44 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Carson: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Hobert: 19 babies, 5× the national rate
Hershel: 22 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Mack: 51 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Odis: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	2,474	–	1
2	Dorothy	967	–	2
3	Margaret	707	–	5
4	Mildred	641	–	8
5	Helen	606	–	3
6	Frances	541	–	10
7	Ruby	541	–	26
8	Ruth	523	↑2	6
9	Martha	507	–	21
10	Virginia	424	↓2	7
11	Betty	405	↑4	4
12	Annie	393	↓1	32
13	Evelyn	346	↑1	12
14	Willie	335	↓1	68
15	Gladys	328	↑2	30
16	Anna	325	↑5	13
17	Elizabeth	317	↓5	11
18	Louise	317	↓2	24
19	Edna	288	↑1	31
20	Hazel	275	↓1	42
21	Edith	263	↑5	36
22	Thelma	260	↓4	33
23	Pauline	256	↓1	38
24	Sarah	237	↓1	54
25	Juanita	221	↓1	48
26	Doris	209	↑5	9
27	Lillian	205	↑1	23
28	Lois	202	↑10	22
29	Mattie	200	↓4	>100
30	Clara	199	↓3	56
31	Katherine	195	↑3	59
32	Emma	193	↑3	57
33	Marie	189	↓3	14
34	Alice	183	↓5	15
35	Georgia	178	↓3	>100
36	Ethel	177	↑3	39
37	Wilma	176	new	67
38	Irene	167	↓2	18
39	Bessie	155	↓2	86
40	Lucille	154	↓7	37
41	Geneva	153	↑2	>100
42	Nellie	153	new	92
43	Minnie	151	↑7	100
44	Alma	147	↑5	87
45	Marjorie	147	new	17
46	Christine	139	↓2	>100
47	Lillie	139	↓5	97
48	Myrtle	139	↓8	89
49	Beatrice	138	new	50
50	Opal	136	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	James	2,494	–	4
2	William	1,748	–	3
3	John	1,304	–	2
4	Robert	1,206	–	1
5	Charles	943	–	5
6	George	574	–	6
7	Thomas	496	–	11
8	Joe	345	–	35
9	Willie	329	↑2	30
10	Henry	322	↑3	18
11	Edward	309	↓2	9
12	Walter	301	↑3	16
13	Paul	294	↓3	14
14	Jack	290	↑2	17
15	Joseph	289	↑2	7
16	Roy	271	↓4	31
17	Frank	248	↓3	12
18	Fred	239	–	32
19	Carl	233	–	27
20	Harold	226	↑3	13
21	Raymond	218	–	15
22	Howard	204	↑3	26
23	Ralph	203	↑1	23
24	Richard	203	↑4	8
25	Clarence	202	↓5	29
26	Earl	194	↓4	33
27	Clyde	182	↑6	69
28	Calvin	179	new	44
29	David	175	↑5	24
30	Albert	170	↓4	21
31	Eugene	163	↑4	25
32	Kenneth	163	↓1	19
33	Billy	155	↑4	63
34	Samuel	151	↓4	45
35	Charlie	148	↓6	80
36	Harry	143	–	22
37	Ernest	141	↓10	37
38	Arthur	131	↓6	20
39	Ray	129	↓1	60
40	Jesse	123	↓1	86
41	Herbert	120	↑2	41
42	Claude	117	↑2	>100
43	Louis	112	new	28
44	Cecil	107	↑1	85
45	Elmer	106	↓3	57
46	Floyd	105	↓6	66
47	Herman	100	↓6	70
48	Lawrence	96	new	36
49	Marvin	94	new	50
50	Lee	93	↓4	83

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