Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1915

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1915 were Mary for girls (1,141 babies) and James for boys (1,108). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 31,679 babies born in Mississippi in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1915

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: 17 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Myrtis: 34 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Magnolia: 28 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Rosie: 162 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Earline: 25 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Evie: 15 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Johnie: 17 babies, 8× the national rate
Jimmie: 32 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Callie: 41 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Robbie: 21 babies, 6.4× the national rate

Boys

Bilbo: 17 babies, 56.2× the national rate
Tommie: 62 babies, 11× the national rate
Roosevelt: 51 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Lamar: 23 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Will: 55 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Booker: 39 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Mose: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Anderson: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Johnie: 60 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Cleveland: 32 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	1,141	–	1
2	Annie	475	–	36
3	Willie	309	–	72
4	Ruby	290	↑1	24
5	Ruth	222	↑1	5
6	Louise	210	↑4	18
7	Lillie	207	↑1	84
8	Ethel	205	↓1	23
9	Mattie	198	↓5	91
10	Mildred	195	↑3	6
11	Beatrice	171	↑15	37
12	Bessie	171	↓1	57
13	Emma	171	↑4	40
14	Elizabeth	170	↑2	8
15	Margaret	165	↑21	4
16	Rosie	162	↓7	>100
17	Lucille	160	↓5	29
18	Sarah	157	↑6	51
19	Jessie	153	–	66
20	Alice	152	↓6	13
21	Minnie	149	↓6	68
22	Gladys	147	↑5	21
23	Helen	146	↓3	2
24	Hattie	136	↓6	>100
25	Marie	129	–	11
26	Martha	126	↑4	25
27	Dorothy	125	↑6	3
28	Edna	125	↓7	20
29	Lillian	124	–	15
30	Frances	123	↓7	9
31	Ida	118	↓9	54
32	Evelyn	117	↑9	10
33	Lula	116	↓2	>100
34	Virginia	115	new	12
35	Carrie	114	↓3	>100
36	Irene	113	↑13	17
37	Fannie	111	–	>100
38	Velma	109	new	94
39	Clara	107	↓5	38
40	Thelma	107	↑3	30
41	Anna	103	↑1	7
42	Hazel	100	↓14	26
43	Bertha	97	↓3	46
44	Mamie	95	↓5	>100
45	Nellie	93	new	63
46	Susie	91	↓2	>100
47	Myrtle	90	↓9	58
48	Ella	89	–	75
49	Maggie	89	↓14	>100
50	Julia	87	new	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	James	1,108	–	3
2	John	802	–	1
3	William	700	–	2
4	Robert	632	↑1	4
5	Willie	610	↓1	30
6	George	381	–	6
7	Henry	308	–	14
8	Thomas	252	↑2	10
9	Charles	232	↓1	7
10	Walter	229	↑3	11
11	Joe	216	–	38
12	Joseph	193	↑3	5
13	Frank	190	↓4	9
14	Charlie	178	↓2	75
15	Albert	161	↓1	17
16	Edward	161	↑4	8
17	Fred	154	–	26
18	Jessie	140	↓2	>100
19	Eddie	135	↓1	>100
20	Jack	134	↑9	27
21	Sam	128	↓2	68
22	Richard	115	↑12	15
23	Clarence	113	↓2	24
24	Earl	108	↓1	33
25	David	103	↓3	31
26	Johnnie	103	–	>100
27	Leroy	101	↑3	66
28	Louis	97	↓1	23
29	Lee	96	↓5	84
30	Andrew	93	↑2	46
31	Roy	91	↑12	32
32	Howard	90	new	25
33	Arthur	85	↓2	18
34	Samuel	83	↑1	39
35	Woodrow	78	↓10	83
36	Clyde	75	↑4	63
37	Eugene	75	↓9	41
38	Herman	75	↓1	56
39	Jimmie	74	↑5	>100
40	Ernest	73	↓4	35
41	Luther	70	↑5	>100
42	Jesse	69	↓9	77
43	Harold	67	new	12
44	Leon	63	new	82
45	Paul	62	↓3	13
46	Tommie	62	new	>100
47	Harry	61	↓2	19
48	Lewis	61	new	70
49	Johnie	60	–	>100
50	Percy	60	↓11	>100

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