Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1925

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1925 were Mary for girls (2,443 babies) and James for boys (2,360). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 53,433 babies born in Tennessee in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1925

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, 11.5× the national rate
Dimple: 16 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Linnie: 24 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Robbie: 44 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Sammie: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Reba: 98 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nannie: 57 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Roxie: 28 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Birdie: 22 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Rubye: 19 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Dorris: 16 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Kyle: 16 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Buford: 38 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Hobert: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Clay: 19 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Coy: 26 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Wilburn: 27 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Riley: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Grady: 48 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Will: 31 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	2,443	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,013	–	2
3	Helen	657	↑2	4
4	Margaret	655	↓1	5
5	Mildred	641	↓1	9
6	Ruby	507	↑1	30
7	Betty	493	↑4	3
8	Ruth	455	–	6
9	Martha	449	–	23
10	Virginia	424	–	7
11	Frances	422	↓5	11
12	Annie	385	–	32
13	Elizabeth	317	↑4	10
14	Evelyn	311	↓1	12
15	Anna	299	↑1	13
16	Gladys	285	↓1	33
17	Willie	282	↓3	68
18	Hazel	279	↑2	45
19	Edna	278	–	37
20	Louise	277	↓2	27
21	Thelma	256	↑1	35
22	Juanita	233	↑3	49
23	Sarah	232	↑1	58
24	Doris	226	↑2	8
25	Mattie	221	↑4	100
26	Pauline	221	↓3	38
27	Edith	207	↓6	42
28	Alice	200	↑6	15
29	Bessie	193	↑10	87
30	Emma	193	↑2	57
31	Marie	190	↑2	16
32	Katherine	175	↓1	61
33	Ethel	173	↑3	43
34	Clara	172	↓4	55
35	Lillian	171	↓8	25
36	Lois	171	↓8	18
37	Georgia	167	↓2	>100
38	Geneva	165	↑3	>100
39	Nellie	159	↑3	98
40	Lucille	156	–	41
41	Wilma	154	↓4	62
42	Jean	153	new	14
43	Minnie	152	–	>100
44	Myrtle	146	↑4	95
45	Bertha	145	new	74
46	Nancy	144	new	60
47	Irene	141	↓9	19
48	Marjorie	141	↓3	21
49	Alma	138	↓5	94
50	Jessie	136	new	97

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	James	2,360	–	4
2	William	1,582	–	3
3	John	1,186	–	2
4	Robert	1,168	–	1
5	Charles	910	–	5
6	George	550	–	6
7	Thomas	449	–	11
8	Paul	359	↑5	13
9	Edward	343	↑2	9
10	Willie	334	↓1	27
11	Joe	313	↓3	34
12	Walter	303	–	16
13	Jack	279	↑1	17
14	Henry	256	↓4	18
15	Roy	248	↑1	32
16	Frank	246	↑1	12
17	Howard	235	↑5	26
18	Billy	231	↑15	49
19	Harold	230	↑1	14
20	Fred	226	↓2	33
21	Clarence	223	↑4	30
22	Carl	220	↓3	28
23	Ralph	211	–	25
24	Earl	200	↑2	31
25	Richard	200	↓1	8
26	Joseph	199	↓11	7
27	Raymond	187	↓6	15
28	David	184	↑1	22
29	Ernest	172	↑8	37
30	Eugene	171	↑1	24
31	Charlie	167	↑4	78
32	Albert	166	↓2	21
33	Clyde	164	↓6	68
34	Samuel	157	–	46
35	Harry	155	↑1	23
36	Kenneth	152	↓4	19
37	Arthur	122	↑1	20
38	Ray	118	↑1	64
39	Floyd	117	↑7	58
40	Jesse	116	–	85
41	Calvin	109	↓13	47
42	Clifford	109	new	59
43	Donald	108	new	10
44	Cecil	106	–	87
45	Luther	102	new	>100
46	Herman	101	↑1	69
47	Claude	99	↓5	>100
48	Jessie	96	new	>100
49	Leonard	96	new	38
50	Lawrence	95	↓2	36

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