Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1932

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1932 were Mary for girls (2,022 babies) and James for boys (2,214). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 52,707 babies born in Tennessee in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1932

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: 22 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Bettye: 128 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Rubye: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Robbie: 68 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Reba: 92 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Imogene: 119 babies, 5× the national rate
Nannie: 38 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Dorris: 22 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Emogene: 22 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Peggie: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Dorris: 18 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Kyle: 21 babies, 11× the national rate
Jere: 18 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Carson: 19 babies, 7× the national rate
Clay: 19 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Buford: 30 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Billie: 142 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Freeman: 18 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Wilburn: 25 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Coy: 19 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	2,022	–	1
2	Betty	1,546	–	2
3	Dorothy	991	–	4
4	Barbara	581	↑2	3
5	Helen	476	↓1	8
6	Margaret	470	↓1	7
7	Martha	465	–	27
8	Virginia	379	↑3	14
9	Mildred	361	↓1	26
10	Ruby	358	↓1	38
11	Frances	345	↓1	19
12	Peggy	314	–	40
13	Doris	311	↑4	10
14	Ruth	286	↓1	11
15	Joyce	280	↑7	12
16	Evelyn	279	↓2	23
17	Anna	268	↑2	24
18	Annie	267	↓2	41
19	Elizabeth	250	↓1	17
20	Wilma	246	↓5	65
21	Bobbie	227	↑3	>100
22	Edna	222	↓2	50
23	Nancy	220	↑3	13
24	Billie	206	↓3	93
25	Lois	202	↑12	20
26	Thelma	202	↓3	51
27	Willie	198	↑5	91
28	Jean	194	↑1	15
29	Louise	183	↑1	36
30	Norma	181	↓3	22
31	Juanita	179	↑3	58
32	Hazel	173	↓7	75
33	Sarah	172	↓2	67
34	Shirley	167	new	9
35	Wanda	165	↓2	52
36	Emma	163	↓1	76
37	Alice	155	↑2	21
38	Joan	155	↑2	5
39	Bonnie	151	↑5	64
40	Gladys	143	↓4	54
41	Carolyn	141	↑8	46
42	Patricia	140	new	6
43	Alma	139	↑5	>100
44	Clara	138	↓16	70
45	Mattie	136	↓4	>100
46	Edith	134	↓3	69
47	Bessie	133	↓1	>100
48	Ann	131	↓6	34
49	Bettye	128	new	>100
50	Georgia	128	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	James	2,214	–	2
2	William	1,380	–	4
3	Robert	1,259	–	1
4	Charles	1,235	–	6
5	John	1,038	–	3
6	Billy	824	–	20
7	Bobby	569	↑1	30
8	George	476	↑1	8
9	Thomas	471	↓2	10
10	Joe	454	–	29
11	Jack	323	–	17
12	Paul	308	–	13
13	Harold	301	↑5	18
14	Donald	293	↑6	7
15	Willie	272	↑2	31
16	Kenneth	271	–	14
17	Roy	267	↓2	38
18	Edward	261	↓5	11
19	Richard	254	↓5	5
20	David	235	↑2	12
21	Carl	231	↓2	28
22	Frank	229	↑7	15
23	Ralph	218	↑3	27
24	Walter	217	↓3	21
25	Fred	210	↓2	33
26	Raymond	189	↑1	19
27	Henry	188	↓2	23
28	Eugene	187	↑4	22
29	Clarence	181	↑1	40
30	Howard	181	↑1	36
31	Joseph	176	↓7	9
32	Earl	174	↓4	41
33	Jimmy	165	↑3	76
34	Ray	160	↑7	59
35	Albert	144	–	26
36	Billie	142	↑1	>100
37	Ernest	132	↓4	47
38	Jerry	131	↑6	34
39	Jimmie	126	↑8	75
40	Herbert	123	–	44
41	Charlie	122	↑1	90
42	Bill	121	↑3	58
43	Clyde	120	↓9	82
44	Samuel	117	↓5	56
45	Harry	116	↓7	32
46	Arthur	109	–	25
47	Floyd	102	↓4	68
48	Franklin	102	new	66
49	Gene	102	new	64
50	Johnny	101	new	96

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