Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1918

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,348 babies) and James for boys (1,379). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 37,090 babies born in Mississippi in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1918

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, 13.6× the national rate
Pinkie: 15 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Lue: 21 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Freddie: 24 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Myrtis: 26 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Magnolia: 24 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Rosie: 190 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Evie: 17 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Mandy: 17 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Eddie: 48 babies, 9.1× the national rate

Boys

Aron: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Lamar: 26 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Shelby: 18 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Roosevelt: 52 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Booker: 37 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Tommie: 65 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Will: 54 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Jeff: 29 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Davis: 19 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Percy: 72 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,348	–	1
2	Annie	555	–	36
3	Willie	422	–	70
4	Ruby	287	–	27
5	Ruth	242	–	5
6	Mildred	237	–	6
7	Frances	224	↑4	8
8	Mattie	219	↓1	100
9	Louise	210	↓1	18
10	Lillie	205	↓1	89
11	Dorothy	204	↑2	3
12	Ethel	204	↓2	28
13	Elizabeth	198	↑1	9
14	Bessie	191	↑2	61
15	Margaret	190	↑2	4
16	Rosie	190	↓1	>100
17	Helen	183	↑2	2
18	Lucille	181	↑5	29
19	Emma	177	↑2	46
20	Minnie	177	↑6	88
21	Alice	176	↑1	13
22	Jessie	170	↓4	75
23	Martha	168	↓3	25
24	Gladys	161	↑8	22
25	Clara	158	↑6	43
26	Edna	158	↓2	23
27	Sarah	154	↓15	52
28	Thelma	152	↓1	32
29	Ida	151	↑7	57
30	Hazel	149	↓2	33
31	Hattie	148	↑6	>100
32	Lillian	147	↑2	15
33	Lula	145	↑9	>100
34	Beatrice	143	↓9	40
35	Marie	143	↓5	12
36	Carrie	133	↓3	>100
37	Evelyn	128	↑9	11
38	Fannie	122	↓9	>100
39	Irene	121	↑1	16
40	Mamie	118	↑3	>100
41	Myrtle	116	↓6	62
42	Virginia	116	↓3	7
43	Ella	114	↑2	84
44	Maggie	113	↓6	>100
45	Katie	111	new	>100
46	Laura	111	↓5	64
47	Grace	101	↑3	31
48	Alma	98	new	73
49	Bertha	95	↓5	51
50	Velma	94	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	1,379	–	3
2	John	914	–	1
3	William	783	–	2
4	Willie	748	–	29
5	Robert	722	–	4
6	George	434	–	6
7	Charles	355	↑1	5
8	Henry	350	↓1	16
9	Joe	274	↑2	34
10	Thomas	274	↓1	10
11	Walter	267	↓1	11
12	Joseph	223	↑2	7
13	Charlie	205	↓1	70
14	Edward	193	↑1	8
15	Frank	178	↓2	9
16	Albert	174	↑1	19
17	Woodrow	170	↑14	58
18	Eddie	159	↓2	>100
19	Jessie	154	↓1	>100
20	Fred	146	↑1	33
21	Johnnie	146	↑2	>100
22	Jack	136	↑3	21
23	Louis	132	↑3	24
24	David	129	↓4	28
25	Arthur	125	↑2	17
26	Leroy	124	↑11	57
27	Clarence	122	↓5	23
28	Richard	120	↓4	12
29	Lee	119	↓1	86
30	Sam	112	↓11	75
31	Roy	111	↓1	32
32	Samuel	108	↓3	43
33	Eugene	105	↑3	35
34	Andrew	103	↑8	46
35	Earl	99	↓2	31
36	Ernest	93	↓1	37
37	Jimmie	92	↑7	>100
38	Howard	91	↓6	26
39	Curtis	87	↓1	>100
40	Herman	85	↑7	65
41	Paul	81	↓7	14
42	Luther	78	new	>100
43	Clyde	75	↑5	67
44	Herbert	73	new	40
45	Percy	72	↓5	>100
46	Claude	70	new	95
47	Jesse	69	↓2	78
48	Johnie	69	↑1	>100
49	Earnest	68	↓8	>100
50	Wilson	68	new	>100

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