Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1917

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1917 were Mary for girls (1,215 babies) and James for boys (1,230). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 33,608 babies born in Mississippi in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1917

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: 28 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Myrtis: 30 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Pinkie: 15 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Rosie: 172 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Earline: 36 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Magnolia: 16 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Earnestine: 16 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Mittie: 19 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Lovie: 15 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Ruthie: 20 babies, 8.3× the national rate

Boys

Ike: 18 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Tommie: 69 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Booker: 38 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 46 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Will: 51 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Otha: 19 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Percy: 74 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Major: 22 babies, 8× the national rate
Mose: 15 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Sammie: 22 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	1,215	–	1
2	Annie	502	–	35
3	Willie	411	–	72
4	Ruby	277	–	27
5	Ruth	235	↑1	5
6	Mildred	224	↑1	6
7	Mattie	221	↓2	94
8	Louise	211	↑5	19
9	Lillie	202	–	86
10	Ethel	190	–	24
11	Frances	186	↑10	9
12	Sarah	186	↑4	52
13	Dorothy	180	↑6	3
14	Elizabeth	177	↑6	8
15	Rosie	172	–	>100
16	Bessie	167	↓8	61
17	Margaret	166	↓5	4
18	Jessie	163	↑7	70
19	Helen	162	↓2	2
20	Martha	159	↑8	22
21	Emma	156	↓7	46
22	Alice	150	↑11	13
23	Lucille	150	↓12	29
24	Edna	148	↑5	20
25	Beatrice	145	↓7	39
26	Minnie	144	↑5	75
27	Thelma	137	↑3	32
28	Hazel	136	↑8	31
29	Fannie	135	↑10	>100
30	Marie	135	↓4	12
31	Clara	132	↓7	41
32	Gladys	129	↓10	23
33	Carrie	125	↓6	>100
34	Lillian	123	–	15
35	Myrtle	110	↑2	58
36	Ida	108	↑4	56
37	Hattie	107	↓14	>100
38	Maggie	107	↓3	>100
39	Virginia	107	↑2	10
40	Irene	106	↓8	17
41	Laura	106	new	65
42	Lula	105	↓4	>100
43	Mamie	102	new	>100
44	Bertha	100	–	51
45	Ella	100	↓3	83
46	Evelyn	99	↓3	11
47	Eva	92	new	54
48	Bernice	89	new	42
49	Susie	89	new	>100
50	Grace	87	new	30

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	James	1,230	–	3
2	John	758	–	1
3	William	741	–	2
4	Willie	662	–	31
5	Robert	633	–	4
6	George	461	–	6
7	Henry	305	–	15
8	Charles	271	↑1	7
9	Thomas	261	↓1	10
10	Walter	229	↑3	11
11	Joe	215	↓1	35
12	Charlie	206	↑2	67
13	Frank	198	↓2	9
14	Joseph	196	↓2	5
15	Edward	175	–	8
16	Eddie	156	↑3	>100
17	Albert	155	↓1	18
18	Jessie	143	↓1	>100
19	Sam	138	↑1	72
20	David	137	↑4	28
21	Fred	137	↓3	29
22	Clarence	128	–	25
23	Johnnie	126	↑3	>100
24	Richard	122	↓3	14
25	Jack	118	↓2	22
26	Louis	107	↑1	23
27	Arthur	101	↑1	17
28	Lee	100	↑1	85
29	Samuel	100	↑1	42
30	Roy	99	↑9	33
31	Woodrow	98	↓6	73
32	Howard	97	↑5	26
33	Earl	96	↓2	32
34	Paul	90	↓1	13
35	Ernest	88	–	37
36	Eugene	87	↓2	39
37	Leroy	85	↑1	60
38	Curtis	81	↑4	>100
39	Tom	76	↑4	>100
40	Percy	74	↑1	>100
41	Earnest	73	new	>100
42	Andrew	70	↓6	48
43	Jim	70	↑3	>100
44	Jimmie	70	↑4	>100
45	Jesse	69	↓13	79
46	Tommie	69	↑4	>100
47	Herman	68	↓7	58
48	Clyde	65	↓3	64
49	Johnie	64	new	>100
50	Cecil	60	new	83

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