Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1927

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1927 were Mary for girls (2,330 babies) and James for boys (2,412). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 52,983 babies born in Tennessee in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1927

Names given at least 15 times in Tennessee that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Dimple: 17 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Robbie: 58 babies, 7× the national rate
Bettye: 91 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Reba: 93 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Joe: 30 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Rubye: 20 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Novella: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Dorotha: 21 babies, 5× the national rate
Sue: 66 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Freddie: 24 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Benton: 15 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Kyle: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Buford: 41 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Hobert: 19 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Houston: 19 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Clay: 19 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Odis: 21 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Grady: 48 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Lenard: 18 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Austin: 37 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	2,330	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,059	–	2
3	Betty	681	↑1	3
4	Helen	637	↑2	4
5	Margaret	565	↓2	5
6	Martha	502	↑1	24
7	Mildred	489	↓2	11
8	Virginia	486	↑1	8
9	Frances	430	↑1	12
10	Ruby	426	↓2	30
11	Ruth	425	–	6
12	Annie	346	–	36
13	Evelyn	310	↑1	15
14	Elizabeth	299	↓1	13
15	Willie	277	↑2	71
16	Hazel	276	↑6	53
17	Gladys	269	↑1	37
18	Doris	257	↑5	7
19	Anna	249	–	16
20	Edna	245	–	40
21	Louise	240	↓6	27
22	Thelma	235	↓6	38
23	Lois	214	↑9	19
24	Marie	205	↑3	20
25	Sarah	202	↓4	61
26	Emma	195	↑8	64
27	Juanita	195	↓2	55
28	Mattie	189	↑2	>100
29	Pauline	189	↓3	42
30	Edith	179	↓6	48
31	Katherine	175	↑6	73
32	Jean	173	↓3	14
33	Wilma	166	–	68
34	Lillian	164	↓3	32
35	Geneva	159	↑5	>100
36	Clara	158	↓8	63
37	Bessie	154	↑2	88
38	Georgia	151	new	>100
39	Barbara	148	new	10
40	Bonnie	147	new	100
41	Jessie	145	↓3	95
42	Christine	142	new	>100
43	Nellie	141	↑1	>100
44	Minnie	139	↓2	>100
45	Myrtle	133	↑4	>100
46	Eva	132	↓1	79
47	Lillie	132	↑1	94
48	Ethel	130	↓12	47
49	Lucille	130	↑1	45
50	Alice	129	↓15	17

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	2,412	–	3
2	William	1,478	–	4
3	John	1,248	–	2
4	Robert	1,159	–	1
5	Charles	1,011	–	5
6	George	603	–	7
7	Thomas	479	–	11
8	Joe	370	–	30
9	Billy	354	↑7	31
10	Willie	346	–	27
11	Jack	340	–	16
12	Paul	305	↓3	13
13	Roy	287	↑1	34
14	Edward	281	↓2	10
15	Frank	263	↑5	12
16	Walter	250	↓3	17
17	Fred	247	↑2	35
18	Harold	237	↓3	14
19	Carl	234	↓1	26
20	Joseph	230	↑3	9
21	Henry	225	↓4	19
22	Richard	221	↑3	6
23	Ralph	213	↑1	24
24	Earl	210	↓3	33
25	Raymond	205	↑2	15
26	David	200	↑5	21
27	Clarence	191	↓1	32
28	Eugene	190	↑1	20
29	Kenneth	182	↑1	18
30	Howard	179	↓8	28
31	Albert	171	↓3	23
32	Ernest	161	–	41
33	Samuel	159	–	49
34	Clyde	150	↑1	68
35	Floyd	150	↓1	53
36	Charlie	147	↑1	80
37	Donald	144	↑12	8
38	Arthur	142	–	22
39	Harry	132	↑1	25
40	Ray	128	↓4	60
41	Herbert	124	↓2	42
42	Herman	106	↑1	70
43	Bill	102	new	69
44	Alvin	99	new	66
45	Billie	97	new	>100
46	Claude	96	↓2	>100
47	Louis	96	↓5	29
48	Calvin	94	↓1	73
49	Jesse	90	↓8	89
50	Elmer	89	↓5	61

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