Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1919

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1919 were Mary for girls (1,520 babies) and James for boys (1,591). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,475 babies born in Mississippi in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1919

Names given at least 15 times in Mississippi that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Earlean: 16 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Emmer: 17 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Magnolia: 33 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Myrtis: 34 babies, 11× the national rate
Rosie: 266 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Lue: 30 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Evie: 19 babies, 9× the national rate
Ruthie: 30 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Mandy: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Earnestine: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate

Boys

Davie: 16 babies, 17× the national rate
Otha: 23 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Tommie: 84 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Mose: 30 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Hilton: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Roosevelt: 54 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Dewitt: 22 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Ottis: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Percy: 83 babies, 7× the national rate
Booker: 30 babies, 7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	1,520	–	1
2	Annie	631	–	35
3	Willie	459	–	61
4	Ruby	356	–	24
5	Mildred	292	↑1	6
6	Mattie	290	↑2	95
7	Ruth	273	↓2	5
8	Dorothy	272	↑3	3
9	Lillie	272	↑1	81
10	Rosie	266	↑6	>100
11	Helen	241	↑6	2
12	Bessie	226	↑2	59
13	Louise	223	↓4	20
14	Elizabeth	221	↓1	8
15	Sarah	203	↑12	46
16	Frances	196	↓9	9
17	Lucille	196	↑1	27
18	Edna	194	↑8	22
19	Margaret	193	↓4	4
20	Emma	189	↓1	45
21	Minnie	188	↓1	80
22	Martha	186	↑1	25
23	Jessie	185	↓1	75
24	Ethel	184	↓12	28
25	Gladys	177	↓1	21
26	Marie	175	↑9	12
27	Hazel	170	↑3	32
28	Alice	162	↓7	13
29	Thelma	160	↓1	31
30	Lillian	158	↑2	17
31	Ida	153	↓2	57
32	Lula	153	↑1	>100
33	Clara	147	↓8	43
34	Irene	145	↑5	16
35	Hattie	144	↓4	>100
36	Beatrice	142	↓2	41
37	Fannie	142	↑1	>100
38	Ella	139	↑5	87
39	Maggie	139	↑5	>100
40	Evelyn	137	↓3	11
41	Virginia	136	↑1	7
42	Bertha	135	↑7	52
43	Carrie	127	↓7	>100
44	Josephine	127	new	26
45	Bernice	120	new	42
46	Laura	117	–	71
47	Susie	113	new	>100
48	Eva	112	new	55
49	Christine	111	new	>100
50	Doris	111	new	18

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	James	1,591	–	3
2	John	938	–	1
3	William	906	–	2
4	Willie	870	–	23
5	Robert	777	–	4
6	George	486	–	6
7	Henry	376	↑1	16
8	Charles	373	↓1	5
9	Thomas	295	↑1	10
10	Walter	275	↑1	11
11	Joe	262	↓2	35
12	Charlie	238	↑1	66
13	Joseph	236	↓1	7
14	Eddie	221	↑4	99
15	Frank	217	–	9
16	Edward	208	↓2	8
17	Albert	191	↓1	18
18	Jessie	186	↑1	>100
19	Richard	165	↑9	12
20	David	157	↑4	27
21	Fred	155	↓1	30
22	Sam	147	↑8	75
23	Jack	142	↓1	21
24	Johnnie	142	↓3	95
25	Samuel	136	↑7	43
26	Leroy	133	–	55
27	Clarence	130	–	25
28	Ernest	130	↑8	36
29	Andrew	129	↑5	47
30	Lee	127	↓1	82
31	Arthur	123	↓6	19
32	Louis	118	↓9	28
33	Earl	110	↑2	31
34	Eugene	110	↓1	33
35	Woodrow	98	↓18	91
36	Howard	96	↑2	24
37	Jimmie	96	–	>100
38	Roy	96	↓7	32
39	Paul	95	↑2	15
40	Jesse	91	↑7	77
41	Curtis	88	↓2	>100
42	Tom	88	new	>100
43	Tommie	84	new	>100
44	Luther	83	↓2	>100
45	Percy	83	–	>100
46	Harry	81	new	20
47	Cecil	80	new	78
48	Clyde	80	↓5	67
49	Floyd	80	new	59
50	Johnie	80	↓2	>100

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