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Baby names in Alabama, 1910s

1910–1919 · 370,707 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Alabama across the 1910s, with 14,585 births in the decade. The state recorded 370,707 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Alabama in the 1910s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Verbon3321×
Voncile8716×
Alto6213×
Bama4513×
Huey97
Hobson23
Comer50
Ludie138

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary14,585
#2James13,016
#3Willie9,586
#4John9,299
#5William8,827
#6Annie6,560
#7Robert6,164
#8George4,145
#9Ruby3,662
#10Henry3,103
#11Ruth3,048
#12Charles2,906
#13Mattie2,902
#14Thomas2,838
#15Jessie2,804
#16Margaret2,767
#17Louise2,711
#18Mildred2,636
#19Elizabeth2,456
#20Lillie2,378
#21Ethel2,338
#22Joseph2,260
#23Frank2,135
#24Gladys2,088
#25Bessie2,063

Other decades in Alabama

All Alabama names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org