Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1920

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1920 were Mary for girls (1,557 babies) and James for boys (1,574). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,676 babies born in Mississippi in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1920

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

Girls

Savannah: 19 babies, 12× the national rate
Mandy: 16 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Myrtis: 29 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Rosie: 242 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Lue: 22 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Ouida: 20 babies, 9× the national rate
Earnestine: 27 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Magnolia: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Sammie: 16 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Johnie: 20 babies, 7.6× the national rate

Boys

Lonzo: 16 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Mose: 24 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Tommie: 77 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 66 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Dewitt: 27 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Arther: 19 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Will: 61 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Isiah: 18 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Sammie: 39 babies, 8× the national rate
Otha: 20 babies, 7.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	1,557	–	1
2	Annie	656	–	35
3	Willie	432	–	74
4	Dorothy	317	↑4	2
5	Ruby	304	↓1	26
6	Lillie	273	↑3	90
7	Mattie	272	↓1	96
8	Mildred	267	↓3	6
9	Ruth	261	↓2	5
10	Helen	252	↑1	3
11	Rosie	242	↓1	>100
12	Louise	233	↑1	19
13	Frances	226	↑3	9
14	Margaret	211	↑5	4
15	Marie	200	↑11	13
16	Elizabeth	199	↓2	8
17	Minnie	195	↑4	87
18	Emma	191	↑2	46
19	Bessie	190	↓7	71
20	Martha	187	↑2	23
21	Edna	186	↓3	27
22	Ethel	183	↑2	30
23	Thelma	180	↑6	31
24	Hazel	175	↑3	34
25	Sarah	175	↓10	50
26	Alice	171	↑2	15
27	Jessie	170	↓4	84
28	Beatrice	169	↑8	41
29	Lucille	169	↓12	29
30	Gladys	168	↓5	22
31	Hattie	158	↑4	>100
32	Ida	158	↓1	66
33	Lula	148	↓1	>100
34	Doris	147	↑16	14
35	Lillian	139	↓5	18
36	Clara	137	↓3	44
37	Eva	135	↑11	58
38	Virginia	133	↑3	7
39	Ella	131	↓1	88
40	Laura	131	↑6	63
41	Evelyn	130	↓1	12
42	Carrie	129	↑1	>100
43	Fannie	128	↓6	>100
44	Irene	124	↓10	17
45	Myrtle	116	new	68
46	Bertha	113	↓4	57
47	Grace	112	new	37
48	Juanita	111	new	61
49	Georgia	107	new	>100
50	Maggie	106	↓11	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	James	1,574	–	4
2	John	981	–	1
3	William	879	–	2
4	Willie	829	–	29
5	Robert	799	–	3
6	George	481	–	6
7	Charles	399	↑1	5
8	Henry	328	↓1	17
9	Thomas	314	–	11
10	Joe	265	↑1	35
11	Walter	252	↓1	13
12	Frank	225	↑3	9
13	Albert	204	↑4	19
14	Charlie	204	↓2	70
15	Eddie	202	↓1	>100
16	Joseph	195	↓3	7
17	Edward	193	↓1	8
18	Jessie	176	–	>100
19	Jack	161	↑4	20
20	Johnnie	159	↑4	99
21	Clarence	140	↑6	26
22	David	140	↓2	25
23	Arthur	137	↑8	18
24	Fred	132	↓3	33
25	Samuel	129	–	44
26	Earl	128	↑7	31
27	Richard	127	↓8	10
28	Lee	126	↑2	82
29	Sam	122	↓7	84
30	Roy	118	↑8	32
31	Louis	116	↑1	28
32	Paul	116	↑7	14
33	Leroy	114	↓7	56
34	Eugene	113	–	30
35	Howard	107	↑1	24
36	Harold	96	new	12
37	Jimmie	96	–	>100
38	Herman	95	new	66
39	Jesse	93	↑1	79
40	Curtis	89	↑1	>100
41	Ernest	89	↓13	37
42	Johnie	85	↑8	>100
43	Cecil	81	↑4	77
44	Earnest	79	new	>100
45	Andrew	78	↓16	49
46	Tommie	77	↓3	>100
47	Clifton	76	new	>100
48	Clyde	76	–	68
49	Leon	74	new	75
50	Oscar	72	new	90

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