Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1916

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,263 babies) and James for boys (1,155). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 34,213 babies born in Mississippi in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1916

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: 34 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Magnolia: 24 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Mandy: 17 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Rosie: 178 babies, 10× the national rate
Lue: 18 babies, 10× the national rate
Rubie: 20 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Mittie: 20 babies, 9× the national rate
Earline: 29 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Pearlie: 33 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Robbie: 25 babies, 6.8× the national rate

Boys

Bilbo: 22 babies, 54.9× the national rate
Aron: 17 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Mckinley: 17 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Mose: 24 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 57 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Will: 59 babies, 9× the national rate
Tommie: 60 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Percy: 75 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Booker: 41 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Houston: 22 babies, 7.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,263	–	1
2	Annie	496	–	36
3	Willie	347	–	73
4	Ruby	299	–	23
5	Mattie	238	↑4	93
6	Ruth	228	↓1	5
7	Mildred	219	↑3	6
8	Bessie	213	↑4	56
9	Lillie	210	↓2	88
10	Ethel	202	↓2	25
11	Lucille	191	↑6	30
12	Margaret	189	↑3	4
13	Louise	185	↓7	18
14	Emma	178	↓1	41
15	Rosie	178	↑1	>100
16	Sarah	177	↑2	52
17	Helen	172	↑6	2
18	Beatrice	170	↓7	38
19	Dorothy	168	↑8	3
20	Elizabeth	168	↓6	8
21	Frances	166	↑9	9
22	Gladys	155	–	22
23	Hattie	153	↑1	>100
24	Clara	152	↑15	39
25	Jessie	145	↓6	68
26	Marie	141	↓1	12
27	Carrie	139	↑8	>100
28	Martha	137	↓2	24
29	Edna	136	↓1	19
30	Thelma	136	↑10	29
31	Minnie	134	↓10	71
32	Irene	133	↑4	17
33	Alice	131	↓13	13
34	Lillian	131	↓5	16
35	Maggie	131	↑14	>100
36	Hazel	129	↑6	31
37	Myrtle	124	↑10	58
38	Lula	123	↓5	>100
39	Fannie	120	↓2	>100
40	Ida	119	↓9	54
41	Virginia	119	↓7	10
42	Ella	117	↑6	81
43	Evelyn	114	↓11	11
44	Bertha	102	↓1	49
45	Josephine	102	new	21
46	Velma	100	↓8	99
47	Christine	98	new	>100
48	Alma	92	new	70
49	Pauline	92	new	33
50	Mable	89	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	James	1,155	–	3
2	John	843	–	1
3	William	812	–	2
4	Willie	675	↑1	30
5	Robert	663	↓1	4
6	George	410	–	7
7	Henry	317	–	14
8	Thomas	263	–	10
9	Charles	243	–	6
10	Joe	220	↑1	35
11	Frank	210	↑2	9
12	Joseph	205	–	5
13	Walter	204	↓3	11
14	Charlie	183	–	68
15	Edward	174	↑1	8
16	Albert	168	↓1	17
17	Jessie	156	↑1	>100
18	Fred	137	↓1	29
19	Eddie	135	–	>100
20	Sam	132	↑1	74
21	Richard	129	↑1	15
22	Clarence	126	↑1	24
23	Jack	121	↓3	26
24	David	120	↑1	28
25	Woodrow	118	↑10	64
26	Johnnie	117	–	>100
27	Louis	117	↑1	22
28	Arthur	116	↑5	18
29	Lee	110	–	83
30	Samuel	109	↑4	41
31	Earl	102	↓7	32
32	Jesse	98	↑10	77
33	Paul	93	↑12	12
34	Eugene	92	↑3	39
35	Ernest	87	↑5	36
36	Andrew	85	↓6	46
37	Howard	83	↓5	25
38	Leroy	83	↓11	63
39	Roy	83	↓8	33
40	Herman	79	↓2	56
41	Percy	75	↑9	>100
42	Curtis	74	new	>100
43	Tom	74	new	>100
44	Leon	69	–	85
45	Clyde	67	↓9	62
46	Jim	67	new	>100
47	Hubert	61	new	>100
48	Jimmie	60	↓9	>100
49	Oscar	60	new	86
50	Tommie	60	↓4	>100

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