Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1910

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1910 were Mary for girls (762 babies) and James for boys (465). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 16,902 babies born in Mississippi in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1910

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

Girls

Myrtis: 18 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Pinkie: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Johnie: 16 babies, 9× the national rate
Lovie: 16 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Rosie: 158 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lue: 15 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Mandy: 15 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Magnolia: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Earline: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Eddie: 21 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Boys

Tommie: 33 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Percy: 40 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 45 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Cleveland: 19 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Ed: 37 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Charley: 29 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Booker: 24 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Grady: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Jimmie: 38 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Mack: 31 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	762	1
2	Annie	354	19
3	Willie	208	56
4	Mattie	178	60
5	Lillie	158	54
6	Rosie	158	>100
7	Ruby	152	27
8	Ethel	127	13
9	Emma	124	34
10	Minnie	121	50
11	Bessie	116	37
12	Lucille	112	31
13	Carrie	111	70
14	Elizabeth	109	7
15	Hattie	109	73
16	Alice	105	10
17	Clara	103	32
18	Sarah	101	40
19	Beatrice	99	36
20	Lillian	99	14
21	Louise	99	20
22	Gladys	94	15
23	Ruth	93	5
24	Maggie	92	95
25	Ida	90	47
26	Jessie	86	63
27	Edna	85	18
28	Susie	84	>100
29	Fannie	82	78
30	Laura	81	53
31	Bertha	77	33
32	Lula	76	93
33	Marie	75	9
34	Martha	75	28
35	Mildred	74	8
36	Ella	72	62
37	Frances	70	11
38	Viola	69	48
39	Irene	68	21
40	Katie	67	>100
41	Thelma	67	25
42	Mamie	66	86
43	Myrtle	64	43
44	Anna	62	6
45	Virginia	62	29
46	Josephine	61	30
47	Alberta	60	>100
48	Eva	59	45
49	Gertrude	59	26
50	Helen	57	2

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	James	465	2
2	John	385	1
3	Willie	377	11
4	William	259	3
5	Robert	254	4
6	George	201	5
7	Henry	158	10
8	Frank	105	8
9	Charlie	103	34
10	Sam	103	40
11	Walter	102	13
12	Joe	91	25
13	Charles	86	7
14	Albert	85	14
15	Thomas	82	12
16	Fred	72	22
17	Jessie	72	72
18	Eddie	71	59
19	Johnnie	66	74
20	Jack	59	23
21	Joseph	59	6
22	Edward	55	9
23	Leroy	55	50
24	Andrew	49	42
25	Lee	49	49
26	Eugene	48	39
27	Ernest	47	31
28	Jim	47	100
29	Tom	46	82
30	Louis	45	24
31	Roosevelt	45	>100
32	Arthur	43	17
33	David	43	30
34	Richard	41	21
35	Percy	40	>100
36	Will	39	>100
37	Jimmie	38	>100
38	Clarence	37	20
39	Ed	37	>100
40	Howard	37	27
41	Jesse	35	60
42	Curtis	34	>100
43	Ben	33	79
44	Earl	33	33
45	Tommie	33	>100
46	Mack	31	>100
47	Leon	30	81
48	Luther	30	87
49	Roy	30	29
50	Charley	29	>100

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