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The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the 1940s. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name.
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29 sty 2024 · Along with Abraham and Prince, other early African American names currently in the US Top 1000 include Alonzo, Athena, Daphne, Elijah, Isaiah, Israel, King, Phoebe, and Titus. Place names that were disproportionately popular among Black Americans in history include Boston, Jamaica, York, and Africa.
17 sty 2023 · I looked up each name in the 1940 U.S. Census. I first scanned the geographic distribution of results to make sure they looked realistic for a primarily Black name of the period. Then I spot-checked the races listed in individual records.
These are the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1940s.
Abstract. We document the existence of a distinctive national naming pattern for African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We use census records to identify a set of high-frequency names among African Americans that were unlikely to be held by whites.
The decade saw life in the United States continuing to evolve with Jackie Robinson becoming the first black baseball player in the Major League and Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Life in the United States continued to change as did the most popular baby names of the 40's.
23 sty 2020 · These names are quite different from black names today such as Tyrone, Darnell and Kareem, which grew in popularity during the civil rights movement. Once we knew black names were used...