Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1914

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1914 were Mary for girls (970 babies) and James for boys (960). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 27,021 babies born in Mississippi in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1914

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: 27 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Magnolia: 22 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Mittie: 20 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Mandy: 17 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Ruthie: 20 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Rosie: 166 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Eddie: 32 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Rubye: 21 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Pearlie: 27 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Queen: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Boys

Major: 21 babies, 10× the national rate
Booker: 40 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Roosevelt: 45 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Tommie: 49 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Sammie: 21 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Jessie: 140 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Houston: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Percy: 60 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Jeff: 22 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Mose: 15 babies, 6.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	970	–	1
2	Annie	417	–	33
3	Willie	301	–	66
4	Mattie	210	↑1	78
5	Ruby	203	↓1	24
6	Ruth	187	↑2	5
7	Ethel	175	–	21
8	Lillie	171	↓2	74
9	Rosie	166	↑2	>100
10	Louise	164	↑5	17
11	Bessie	163	↑1	55
12	Lucille	157	↑6	30
13	Mildred	153	↓4	7
14	Alice	151	↑8	12
15	Minnie	147	↓1	67
16	Elizabeth	145	↓3	8
17	Emma	144	↑3	39
18	Hattie	139	↑5	97
19	Jessie	137	–	64
20	Helen	132	↑9	2
21	Edna	126	↓4	19
22	Ida	126	↑11	49
23	Frances	124	↑4	9
24	Sarah	124	↓8	47
25	Marie	122	↑1	10
26	Beatrice	121	↓16	38
27	Gladys	121	↓6	20
28	Hazel	115	↑18	29
29	Lillian	114	↑7	16
30	Martha	112	↑11	27
31	Lula	108	↑9	>100
32	Carrie	106	↓2	91
33	Dorothy	105	↑5	3
34	Clara	104	↓10	37
35	Maggie	104	↓3	>100
36	Margaret	103	↓11	4
37	Fannie	102	↓6	99
38	Myrtle	95	new	60
39	Mamie	93	↓2	>100
40	Bertha	92	↑4	41
41	Evelyn	88	new	11
42	Anna	87	new	6
43	Thelma	86	↑7	26
44	Susie	85	new	>100
45	Gertrude	84	new	32
46	Laura	83	↓12	59
47	Josephine	82	new	23
48	Ella	81	↓20	72
49	Irene	80	↓7	22
50	Christine	76	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	James	960	–	3
2	John	665	–	1
3	William	589	↑1	2
4	Willie	550	↓1	25
5	Robert	539	–	4
6	George	311	–	6
7	Henry	276	–	12
8	Charles	209	–	7
9	Frank	189	↑2	9
10	Thomas	184	–	11
11	Joe	175	↑1	34
12	Charlie	161	↑2	65
13	Walter	161	↓4	10
14	Albert	146	↑1	15
15	Joseph	144	↓2	5
16	Jessie	140	–	>100
17	Fred	123	↑4	28
18	Eddie	122	–	>100
19	Sam	122	↓2	67
20	Edward	119	–	8
21	Clarence	102	↑12	22
22	David	100	↑4	29
23	Earl	93	–	33
24	Lee	93	↑4	84
25	Woodrow	91	↓1	71
26	Johnnie	89	↑1	>100
27	Louis	89	↑4	20
28	Eugene	88	↑6	43
29	Jack	88	↓10	27
30	Leroy	88	↓1	60
31	Arthur	78	↓6	18
32	Andrew	77	↓2	44
33	Jesse	72	↑7	82
34	Richard	71	↓12	17
35	Samuel	70	↑3	36
36	Ernest	67	↓4	38
37	Herman	67	new	51
38	Oscar	62	↑9	77
39	Percy	60	↑2	>100
40	Clyde	59	↑2	63
41	Jim	59	new	>100
42	Paul	59	↓5	13
43	Roy	58	↓8	32
44	Jimmie	57	↑2	>100
45	Harry	55	new	19
46	Luther	55	new	>100
47	Curtis	54	new	>100
48	Ben	53	new	>100
49	Johnie	52	new	>100
50	Floyd	50	new	58

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