Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1912

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1912 were Mary for girls (806 babies) and James for boys (662). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 21,058 babies born in Mississippi in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1912

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

Girls

Kattie: 16 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Myrtis: 28 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Lovie: 18 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Lue: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Rosie: 147 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Callie: 41 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Pearlie: 31 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Magnolia: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Eddie: 23 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Elnora: 41 babies, 6× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 17 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 41 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Cleveland: 23 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Percy: 48 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Will: 36 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Willie: 414 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Eddie: 84 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jessie: 82 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Tommie: 23 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Monroe: 20 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	806	–	1
2	Annie	358	–	27
3	Willie	260	–	61
4	Mattie	196	↑1	70
5	Ruby	190	↓1	23
6	Louise	148	↑18	17
7	Rosie	147	↑2	>100
8	Ethel	141	↓2	18
9	Ruth	136	↑16	5
10	Lillie	133	↓3	67
11	Bessie	128	↓1	43
12	Hattie	128	↑7	90
13	Emma	125	↓5	35
14	Lucille	123	↑6	32
15	Elizabeth	120	↓4	8
16	Gladys	117	↑14	19
17	Clara	111	–	34
18	Jessie	111	↑5	65
19	Beatrice	109	↑2	37
20	Mildred	108	↓4	6
21	Carrie	106	↓8	82
22	Maggie	106	↑4	>100
23	Alice	103	↓9	11
24	Sarah	103	↓9	41
25	Ida	100	↑3	45
26	Marie	99	↑13	10
27	Minnie	99	↓15	60
28	Edna	97	↓10	16
29	Lula	95	↑2	>100
30	Myrtle	92	↑20	50
31	Martha	91	↑2	29
32	Bertha	90	↑3	36
33	Irene	90	↑14	22
34	Fannie	88	↓12	87
35	Frances	88	↑1	9
36	Lillian	84	↓9	14
37	Hazel	83	new	25
38	Margaret	82	–	4
39	Thelma	82	↑4	26
40	Susie	81	↓6	>100
41	Alberta	80	new	>100
42	Georgia	79	new	>100
43	Evelyn	78	new	13
44	Laura	77	new	57
45	Mamie	76	↓13	95
46	Virginia	75	–	20
47	Dorothy	74	↑2	3
48	Helen	74	↓19	2
49	Julia	71	↓4	44
50	Alma	70	new	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	James	662	–	3
2	John	529	–	1
3	Willie	414	–	22
4	William	411	–	2
5	Robert	400	–	4
6	George	220	–	6
7	Henry	207	–	12
8	Charles	159	↑2	7
9	Joe	148	↓1	36
10	Thomas	142	↑1	10
11	Frank	137	↓2	9
12	Walter	133	–	11
13	Albert	118	↑1	17
14	Joseph	109	↑7	5
15	Charlie	93	–	57
16	Jack	93	↑4	28
17	Sam	90	↓4	63
18	Edward	87	↓1	8
19	Eddie	84	↓3	>100
20	Jessie	82	↓1	>100
21	Richard	78	↑14	19
22	Fred	75	↓4	26
23	Ernest	74	↑3	32
24	Clarence	70	↑4	21
25	Earl	67	↓2	34
26	Lee	66	↓1	78
27	David	65	↑4	29
28	Johnnie	63	↓6	>100
29	Leroy	63	↑9	66
30	Roy	63	↑13	31
31	Louis	61	↓7	20
32	Woodrow	60	new	46
33	Arthur	59	↑6	15
34	Samuel	58	↓4	30
35	Jesse	52	↑9	74
36	Oscar	51	↓2	73
37	Andrew	50	↓10	44
38	Howard	48	↑2	25
39	Percy	48	↓10	>100
40	Curtis	47	↑10	>100
41	Tom	46	↓5	>100
42	Roosevelt	41	↓10	>100
43	Earnest	40	new	>100
44	Eugene	40	↓3	41
45	Jimmie	40	↓8	>100
46	Claude	37	new	89
47	Jim	37	↓2	>100
48	Leon	36	↓6	79
49	Luther	36	new	>100
50	Otis	36	new	>100

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