Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1922

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1922 were Mary for girls (1,720 babies) and James for boys (1,598). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,859 babies born in Mississippi in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1922

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

Girls

Magnolia: 41 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Birtha: 15 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Lonnie: 18 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Luvenia: 17 babies, 10× the national rate
Rosie: 241 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Myrtis: 25 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Kattie: 15 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Eddie: 64 babies, 9× the national rate
Lue: 25 babies, 9× the national rate
Ruthie: 42 babies, 8.9× the national rate

Boys

Hardy: 28 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Booker: 35 babies, 10× the national rate
Roosevelt: 59 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Will: 56 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Anderson: 22 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Tommie: 64 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Sammie: 37 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Percy: 84 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Mose: 20 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Otha: 15 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	1,720	–	1
2	Annie	653	–	30
3	Willie	452	↑1	70
4	Dorothy	398	↓1	2
5	Mildred	301	↑1	8
6	Ruby	300	↓1	26
7	Louise	275	↑2	22
8	Lillie	274	↑2	85
9	Mattie	267	↑2	>100
10	Helen	263	↓3	3
11	Ruth	257	↓3	5
12	Frances	248	–	10
13	Rosie	241	↑3	>100
14	Martha	220	↑6	21
15	Elizabeth	211	↑2	9
16	Ethel	205	↓2	32
17	Minnie	204	↑6	91
18	Margaret	195	↓3	4
19	Sarah	195	↑10	51
20	Jessie	194	↑12	87
21	Marie	191	↓2	14
22	Emma	190	↑4	50
23	Gladys	188	↓2	25
24	Bessie	186	↓11	81
25	Edna	183	–	29
26	Virginia	178	↑1	7
27	Alice	177	↓9	15
28	Hazel	174	↓4	37
29	Lucille	171	↑2	33
30	Doris	161	↑4	11
31	Fannie	157	↑12	>100
32	Ida	155	↓2	65
33	Thelma	155	↓11	31
34	Bernice	148	↑6	41
35	Irene	148	↑9	17
36	Clara	146	↑1	47
37	Lula	145	↑1	>100
38	Hattie	141	↑1	>100
39	Beatrice	140	↓11	43
40	Ella	140	↑2	90
41	Evelyn	138	↓5	13
42	Lillian	138	↓9	19
43	Maggie	136	↑3	>100
44	Laura	132	↑6	68
45	Juanita	128	↑2	57
46	Carrie	127	↓11	>100
47	Bertha	125	↓6	63
48	Mamie	120	new	>100
49	Eva	119	new	64
50	Pauline	116	↓5	36

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	James	1,598	–	4
2	John	931	–	1
3	William	885	–	3
4	Willie	841	↑1	28
5	Robert	810	↓1	2
6	George	513	↑1	6
7	Charles	449	↓1	5
8	Henry	393	–	17
9	Thomas	303	–	11
10	Joe	275	–	35
11	Walter	266	–	15
12	Frank	243	↑1	10
13	Albert	215	↑5	20
14	Joseph	215	↓2	7
15	Edward	201	↓1	8
16	Charlie	200	–	72
17	Jessie	181	↓2	>100
18	Eddie	171	↓1	>100
19	Johnnie	169	↑11	>100
20	Richard	163	↑4	9
21	David	159	–	24
22	Sam	144	↑3	84
23	Louis	142	↑9	27
24	Lee	135	↑2	83
25	Fred	131	↓6	33
26	Jack	129	↓6	18
27	Eugene	126	↑4	25
28	Leroy	125	↑7	55
29	Ernest	122	↑9	37
30	Howard	120	↑4	26
31	Earl	118	↓8	31
32	Samuel	115	↓4	43
33	Paul	114	↓6	14
34	Arthur	108	↓5	19
35	Jimmie	106	↑9	>100
36	Clarence	99	↓14	29
37	Roy	96	↓4	32
38	Andrew	93	↓2	53
39	Harold	89	–	13
40	Clyde	87	↑1	67
41	Percy	84	new	>100
42	Cecil	82	↑5	85
43	Jesse	81	–	81
44	Hubert	80	new	>100
45	Curtis	79	↓5	>100
46	Leon	75	↑4	77
47	Luther	75	↓1	>100
48	Herman	73	↓11	66
49	Raymond	73	new	16
50	Johnie	69	new	>100

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