Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1921

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1921 were Mary for girls (1,525 babies) and James for boys (1,537). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,145 babies born in Mississippi in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1921

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

Girls

Ether: 16 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Myrtis: 56 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Mandy: 19 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Lovie: 17 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Rosie: 206 babies, 9× the national rate
Magnolia: 22 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Johnie: 24 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Earnestine: 25 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Ouida: 18 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Jimmie: 52 babies, 7.1× the national rate

Boys

Lonzo: 17 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Isiah: 24 babies, 12× the national rate
Roosevelt: 67 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Booker: 31 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Will: 60 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Mose: 23 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Tommie: 61 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Jessie: 196 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Lamar: 23 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Otha: 17 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	1,525	–	1
2	Annie	599	–	36
3	Dorothy	377	↑1	2
4	Willie	364	↓1	74
5	Ruby	324	–	26
6	Mildred	287	↑2	7
7	Helen	281	↑3	3
8	Ruth	246	↑1	5
9	Louise	245	↑3	22
10	Lillie	241	↓4	94
11	Mattie	218	↓4	>100
12	Frances	217	↑1	9
13	Bessie	214	↑6	75
14	Ethel	214	↑8	32
15	Margaret	209	↓1	4
16	Rosie	206	↓5	>100
17	Elizabeth	200	↓1	10
18	Alice	191	↑8	15
19	Marie	191	↓4	14
20	Martha	191	–	21
21	Gladys	187	↑9	24
22	Thelma	185	↑1	30
23	Minnie	183	↓6	96
24	Hazel	180	–	34
25	Edna	179	↓4	27
26	Emma	178	↓8	52
27	Virginia	177	↑11	6
28	Beatrice	171	–	41
29	Sarah	166	↓4	54
30	Ida	162	↑2	67
31	Lucille	162	↓2	31
32	Jessie	160	↓5	91
33	Lillian	147	↑2	19
34	Doris	142	–	13
35	Carrie	141	↑7	>100
36	Evelyn	139	↑5	12
37	Clara	136	↓1	45
38	Lula	136	↓5	>100
39	Hattie	133	↓8	>100
40	Bernice	129	new	39
41	Bertha	129	↑5	59
42	Ella	128	↓3	89
43	Fannie	124	–	>100
44	Irene	123	–	18
45	Pauline	123	new	37
46	Maggie	116	↑4	>100
47	Juanita	114	↑1	57
48	Edith	113	new	33
49	Anna	110	new	11
50	Laura	108	↓10	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	James	1,537	–	4
2	John	956	–	1
3	William	895	–	3
4	Robert	761	↑1	2
5	Willie	747	↓1	34
6	Charles	442	↑1	5
7	George	431	↓1	6
8	Henry	343	–	17
9	Thomas	275	–	11
10	Joe	252	–	36
11	Walter	249	–	15
12	Joseph	238	↑4	7
13	Frank	221	↓1	9
14	Edward	216	↑3	8
15	Jessie	196	↑3	>100
16	Charlie	178	↓2	76
17	Eddie	176	↓2	>100
18	Albert	172	↓5	20
19	Fred	168	↑5	33
20	Jack	167	↓1	18
21	David	166	↑1	25
22	Clarence	145	↓1	28
23	Earl	129	↑3	31
24	Richard	129	↑3	10
25	Sam	124	↑4	85
26	Lee	121	↑2	86
27	Paul	121	↑5	14
28	Samuel	121	↓3	44
29	Arthur	119	↓6	19
30	Johnnie	117	↓10	>100
31	Eugene	115	↑3	26
32	Louis	114	↓1	29
33	Roy	106	↓3	32
34	Howard	105	↑1	27
35	Leroy	103	↓2	55
36	Andrew	102	↑9	51
37	Herman	94	↑1	64
38	Ernest	87	↑3	38
39	Harold	86	↓3	12
40	Curtis	82	–	>100
41	Clyde	77	↑7	69
42	Harry	77	new	21
43	Jesse	75	↓4	77
44	Jimmie	75	↓7	>100
45	Carl	73	new	30
46	Luther	73	new	>100
47	Cecil	70	↓4	79
48	Otis	69	new	>100
49	Marvin	68	new	59
50	Leon	67	↓1	74

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