Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1928

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1928 were Mary for girls (2,116 babies) and James for boys (2,304). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 51,010 babies born in Tennessee in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1928

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: 21 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Robbie: 48 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Artie: 17 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Reba: 96 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Bettye: 88 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lue: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Callie: 27 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rubye: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Jewell: 67 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Nannie: 41 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Jere: 15 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Kyle: 20 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Buford: 27 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Houston: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Hobert: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Coy: 21 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Wilburn: 21 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Sammie: 26 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Hoover: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Loyd: 41 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	2,116	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,025	–	3
3	Betty	903	–	2
4	Helen	521	–	4
5	Mildred	515	↑2	15
6	Margaret	510	↓1	5
7	Martha	491	↓1	22
8	Frances	443	↑1	13
9	Virginia	430	↓1	9
10	Ruby	426	–	34
11	Ruth	389	–	6
12	Annie	319	–	37
13	Evelyn	303	–	17
14	Elizabeth	294	–	14
15	Doris	273	↑3	7
16	Anna	269	↑3	16
17	Louise	259	↑4	31
18	Willie	256	↓3	74
19	Gladys	231	↓2	41
20	Edna	226	–	45
21	Juanita	223	↑6	58
22	Sarah	216	↑3	64
23	Thelma	215	↓1	40
24	Hazel	196	↓8	59
25	Pauline	188	↑4	48
26	Wilma	185	↑7	69
27	Edith	182	↑3	56
28	Lois	182	↓5	18
29	Marie	181	↓5	21
30	Barbara	177	↑9	8
31	Jean	174	↑1	12
32	Mattie	170	↓4	>100
33	Clara	168	↑3	65
34	Emma	156	↓8	67
35	Katherine	156	↓4	75
36	Billie	151	new	96
37	Lucille	148	↑12	51
38	Alice	145	↑12	19
39	Lillian	145	↓5	35
40	Geneva	140	↓5	>100
41	Alma	132	new	>100
42	Marjorie	132	new	29
43	Nancy	132	new	43
44	Peggy	132	new	76
45	Bonnie	131	↓5	89
46	Ethel	130	↑2	55
47	Georgia	130	↓9	>100
48	Eva	127	↓2	79
49	Irene	125	new	28
50	Bessie	124	↓13	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	James	2,304	–	3
2	William	1,479	–	4
3	John	1,150	–	2
4	Robert	1,103	–	1
5	Charles	1,079	–	5
6	George	507	–	8
7	Thomas	485	–	11
8	Billy	414	↑1	27
9	Joe	373	↓1	30
10	Jack	334	↑1	15
11	Edward	321	↑3	10
12	Paul	308	–	13
13	Herbert	307	↑28	25
14	Willie	300	↓4	29
15	Roy	278	↓2	34
16	Carl	270	↑3	28
17	Richard	242	↑5	6
18	Frank	241	↓3	12
19	Henry	240	↑2	21
20	Kenneth	233	↑9	17
21	Walter	233	↓5	18
22	Harold	228	↓4	14
23	Ralph	217	–	24
24	Joseph	209	↓4	9
25	Clarence	205	↑2	35
26	Raymond	201	↓1	16
27	Earl	196	↓3	37
28	Fred	195	↓11	36
29	Howard	192	↑1	31
30	Donald	182	↑7	7
31	Eugene	179	↓3	20
32	David	172	↓6	19
33	Albert	152	↓2	23
34	Samuel	148	↓1	52
35	Bobby	142	new	65
36	Floyd	142	↓1	54
37	Clyde	136	↓3	74
38	Harry	133	↑1	26
39	Arthur	132	↓1	22
40	Charlie	132	↓4	80
41	Ray	129	↓1	57
42	Ernest	117	↓10	43
43	Jessie	99	new	>100
44	Marvin	92	new	46
45	Cecil	91	new	97
46	Claude	88	–	>100
47	Junior	88	new	>100
48	Alfred	87	new	33
49	Bill	87	↓6	64
50	Herman	87	↓8	78

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