Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1944

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1944 were Mary for girls (1,809 babies) and James for boys (2,770). Social Security records list 62,978 babies born in Tennessee in 1944 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1944

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

Girls

Jewell: 48 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Robbie: 44 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Reba: 58 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Wilma: 203 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Dorthy: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Shelby: 35 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Wanda: 416 babies, 4× the national rate
Dollie: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Peggie: 18 babies, 4× the national rate
Patsy: 318 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Kyle: 18 babies, 8× the national rate
Buford: 30 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Shirley: 18 babies, 6× the national rate
Coy: 21 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Dewey: 61 babies, 4× the national rate
Doyle: 50 babies, 4× the national rate
Billy: 568 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Bobby: 473 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Donnie: 85 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Jackie: 140 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	1,809	–	1
2	Linda	1,445	–	3
3	Barbara	992	–	2
4	Betty	913	–	10
5	Carolyn	820	–	11
6	Patricia	797	–	4
7	Brenda	720	↑1	30
8	Shirley	668	↓1	15
9	Judy	612	↑2	12
10	Sandra	567	↑3	6
11	Nancy	537	↓1	7
12	Joyce	524	–	18
13	Martha	444	↑1	29
14	Dorothy	436	↓5	19
15	Wanda	416	↑1	58
16	Peggy	407	↑1	45
17	Margaret	386	↓2	14
18	Elizabeth	328	↑1	23
19	Patsy	318	↑1	72
20	Carol	303	↑3	5
21	Helen	285	↓3	31
22	Virginia	277	↓1	26
23	Judith	259	↑2	9
24	Doris	254	↓2	42
25	Janice	249	↓1	28
26	Alice	226	↑5	38
27	Frances	220	↓1	33
28	Glenda	218	–	79
29	Phyllis	216	–	40
30	Charlotte	215	↓3	50
31	Donna	203	↑4	17
32	Wilma	203	↓2	>100
33	Ruby	198	↓1	87
34	Sarah	194	–	67
35	Gloria	191	↓2	25
36	Jo	189	–	61
37	Anna	181	–	74
38	Sharon	176	↑4	8
39	Ruth	168	↑2	32
40	Mildred	164	↓1	81
41	Bonnie	159	↑8	34
42	Annie	158	↓2	71
43	Evelyn	154	↑1	57
44	Ann	149	↓6	39
45	Rebecca	149	new	84
46	Norma	145	↓3	66
47	Lois	140	↑3	47
48	Joan	139	↓2	22
49	Beverly	136	↓4	35
50	Bobbie	133	↓2	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	James	2,770	–	1
2	William	1,542	–	4
3	Robert	1,386	–	2
4	Charles	1,228	–	7
5	John	1,189	–	3
6	Jerry	906	–	19
7	David	777	–	6
8	Larry	713	↑1	12
9	Thomas	663	↓1	8
10	Billy	568	–	38
11	Richard	528	↑3	5
12	Jimmy	505	↑1	41
13	George	490	↓1	14
14	Bobby	473	↓3	50
15	Donald	468	–	11
16	Kenneth	417	–	16
17	Ronald	415	–	10
18	Paul	394	–	17
19	Johnny	347	↑3	45
20	Joe	339	↓1	33
21	Roy	300	↓1	39
22	Edward	299	↓1	18
23	Willie	299	↑1	31
24	Harold	297	↓1	27
25	Gary	295	↑15	15
26	Tommy	244	↑2	70
27	Michael	225	↑12	9
28	Carl	217	↓3	36
29	Raymond	215	↑1	22
30	Walter	212	↓4	26
31	Roger	209	↑11	23
32	Joseph	203	↓5	13
33	Frank	201	↓2	21
34	Ronnie	188	↓5	69
35	Ralph	187	↑3	42
36	Jack	177	↓4	30
37	Henry	176	↓4	35
38	Eddie	169	↓4	79
39	Fred	169	↓4	47
40	Howard	169	↑7	53
41	Terry	168	new	43
42	Wayne	156	↓5	37
43	Danny	148	new	76
44	Douglas	142	↓8	34
45	Clarence	141	↓2	74
46	Gerald	141	↓2	24
47	Ernest	140	↑1	59
48	Jackie	140	↓7	>100
49	Samuel	140	↓4	62
50	Don	134	new	72

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