Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1911

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1911 were Mary for girls (606 babies) and James for boys (401). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 14,831 babies born in Mississippi in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1911

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

Girls

Lue: 18 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Eddie: 24 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Rosie: 114 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Bettie: 26 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Jimmie: 20 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Pearlie: 22 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Willie: 206 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Callie: 27 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Elnora: 22 babies, 5× the national rate
Josie: 21 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Booker: 25 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Percy: 41 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Roosevelt: 40 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Tommie: 28 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Will: 40 babies, 7× the national rate
Buster: 17 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Johnie: 28 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Jimmie: 36 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Ed: 24 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jessie: 62 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	606	–	1
2	Annie	296	–	24
3	Willie	206	–	61
4	Ruby	158	↑3	22
5	Mattie	138	↓1	65
6	Ethel	130	↑2	15
7	Lillie	127	↓2	60
8	Emma	119	↑1	35
9	Rosie	114	↓3	>100
10	Bessie	109	↑1	40
11	Elizabeth	109	↑3	7
12	Minnie	106	↓2	52
13	Carrie	105	–	78
14	Alice	95	↑2	11
15	Sarah	94	↑3	42
16	Mildred	90	↑19	8
17	Clara	85	–	33
18	Edna	85	↑9	17
19	Hattie	85	↓4	86
20	Lucille	84	↓8	32
21	Beatrice	83	↓2	37
22	Fannie	83	↑7	88
23	Jessie	80	↑3	66
24	Louise	80	↓3	19
25	Ruth	80	↓2	5
26	Maggie	76	↓2	>100
27	Lillian	75	↓7	13
28	Ida	74	↓3	45
29	Helen	70	↑21	2
30	Gladys	68	↓8	18
31	Lula	68	↑1	94
32	Mamie	68	↑10	89
33	Martha	68	↑1	28
34	Susie	68	↓6	>100
35	Bertha	66	↓4	36
36	Frances	65	↑1	10
37	Velma	63	new	90
38	Margaret	60	new	3
39	Marie	60	↓6	9
40	Ella	58	↓4	63
41	Katie	58	↓1	>100
42	Viola	58	↓4	47
43	Thelma	57	↓2	27
44	Anna	56	–	6
45	Julia	56	new	44
46	Virginia	56	↓1	26
47	Irene	55	↓8	21
48	Nellie	55	new	54
49	Dorothy	54	new	4
50	Myrtle	54	↓7	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	401	–	3
2	John	364	–	1
3	Willie	303	–	14
4	William	238	–	2
5	Robert	210	–	5
6	George	193	–	4
7	Henry	138	–	11
8	Joe	101	↑4	29
9	Frank	100	↓1	8
10	Charles	83	↑3	7
11	Thomas	83	↑4	10
12	Walter	81	↓1	12
13	Sam	79	↓3	47
14	Albert	77	–	15
15	Charlie	75	↓6	45
16	Eddie	64	↑2	78
17	Edward	64	↑5	9
18	Fred	62	↓2	22
19	Jessie	62	↓2	79
20	Jack	55	–	25
21	Joseph	50	–	6
22	Johnnie	48	↓3	90
23	Earl	47	↑21	34
24	Louis	44	↑6	21
25	Lee	43	–	67
26	Ernest	42	↑1	32
27	Andrew	41	↓3	42
28	Clarence	41	↑10	23
29	Percy	41	↑6	>100
30	Samuel	41	new	30
31	David	40	↑2	27
32	Roosevelt	40	↓1	>100
33	Will	40	↑3	>100
34	Oscar	38	new	68
35	Richard	38	↓1	20
36	Tom	38	↓7	>100
37	Jimmie	36	–	>100
38	Leroy	36	↓15	59
39	Arthur	35	↓7	18
40	Howard	33	–	28
41	Eugene	31	↓15	43
42	Leon	31	↑5	77
43	Roy	31	↑6	31
44	Jesse	30	↓3	72
45	Jim	29	↓17	>100
46	Bill	28	new	>100
47	Herman	28	new	49
48	Johnie	28	new	>100
49	Tommie	28	↓4	>100
50	Curtis	27	↓8	>100

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