Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1926

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1926 were Mary for girls (2,150 babies) and James for boys (2,467). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 51,124 babies born in Tennessee in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1926

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: 15 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Dimple: 15 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Robbie: 51 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Novella: 17 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Reba: 95 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roxie: 28 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Rubye: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Mayme: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Georgie: 30 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Bettye: 66 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Buford: 50 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Kyle: 16 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Edd: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Carson: 16 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Odis: 22 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Hershel: 24 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Thurman: 33 babies, 5× the national rate
Houston: 16 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Will: 34 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Hoyt: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	2,150	–	1
2	Dorothy	963	–	2
3	Margaret	605	↑1	5
4	Betty	582	↑3	3
5	Mildred	539	–	9
6	Helen	521	↓3	4
7	Martha	505	↑2	24
8	Ruby	460	↓2	30
9	Virginia	431	↑1	8
10	Frances	417	↑1	10
11	Ruth	389	↓3	6
12	Annie	369	–	34
13	Elizabeth	317	–	11
14	Evelyn	314	–	13
15	Louise	273	↑5	27
16	Thelma	256	↑5	36
17	Willie	256	–	73
18	Gladys	254	↓2	35
19	Anna	253	↓4	15
20	Edna	240	↓1	38
21	Sarah	240	↑2	63
22	Hazel	238	↓4	48
23	Doris	216	↑1	7
24	Edith	216	↑3	42
25	Juanita	209	↓3	52
26	Pauline	200	–	39
27	Marie	191	↑4	18
28	Clara	189	↑6	61
29	Jean	187	↑13	12
30	Mattie	173	↓5	>100
31	Lillian	171	↑4	28
32	Lois	171	↑4	19
33	Wilma	169	↑8	67
34	Emma	165	↓4	59
35	Alice	163	↓7	17
36	Ethel	154	↓3	41
37	Katherine	152	↓5	72
38	Jessie	150	↑12	93
39	Bessie	144	↓10	89
40	Geneva	143	↓2	>100
41	Nancy	143	↑5	57
42	Minnie	139	↑1	>100
43	Irene	137	↑4	21
44	Nellie	137	↓5	>100
45	Eva	133	new	79
46	Marjorie	131	↑2	22
47	Alma	129	↑2	91
48	Lillie	129	new	99
49	Myrtle	125	↓5	>100
50	Lucille	122	↓10	43

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	2,467	–	3
2	William	1,552	–	4
3	John	1,168	–	2
4	Robert	1,135	–	1
5	Charles	914	–	5
6	George	582	–	6
7	Thomas	481	–	11
8	Joe	342	↑3	33
9	Paul	320	↓1	13
10	Willie	313	–	28
11	Jack	305	↑2	16
12	Edward	301	↓3	10
13	Walter	268	↓1	17
14	Roy	266	↑1	34
15	Harold	262	↑4	14
16	Billy	245	↑2	40
17	Henry	224	↓3	19
18	Carl	218	↑4	26
19	Fred	213	↑1	31
20	Frank	212	↓4	12
21	Earl	211	↑3	32
22	Howard	204	↓5	27
23	Joseph	204	↑3	8
24	Ralph	193	↓1	24
25	Richard	191	–	7
26	Clarence	187	↓5	29
27	Raymond	185	–	15
28	Albert	181	↑4	21
29	Eugene	174	↑1	23
30	Kenneth	172	↑6	18
31	David	170	↓3	22
32	Ernest	159	↓3	37
33	Samuel	151	↑1	48
34	Floyd	141	↑5	53
35	Clyde	138	↓2	67
36	Ray	137	↑2	57
37	Charlie	132	↓6	81
38	Arthur	129	↓1	20
39	Herbert	120	new	44
40	Harry	107	↓5	25
41	Jesse	103	↓1	87
42	Louis	101	new	30
43	Herman	100	↑3	69
44	Claude	98	↑3	>100
45	Elmer	98	new	61
46	Lawrence	96	↑4	36
47	Calvin	93	↓6	65
48	Cecil	93	↓4	86
49	Donald	91	↓6	9
50	Hugh	90	new	>100

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