Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1923

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1923 were Mary for girls (1,616 babies) and James for boys (1,547). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,155 babies born in Mississippi in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1923

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: 21 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Lovie: 23 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Myrtis: 29 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Rosia: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Magnolia: 23 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Lue: 28 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Earnestine: 44 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Rosie: 243 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Ruthie: 49 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Rubie: 18 babies, 7.3× the national rate

Boys

Mose: 18 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Booker: 34 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Will: 57 babies, 9× the national rate
Sammie: 37 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 61 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Hardy: 17 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Tommie: 66 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Isaiah: 17 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Percy: 72 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Anderson: 20 babies, 7.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	1,616	–	1
2	Annie	672	–	34
3	Willie	437	–	67
4	Dorothy	423	–	2
5	Ruby	344	↑1	25
6	Mildred	317	↓1	8
7	Helen	290	↑3	3
8	Ruth	279	↑3	6
9	Louise	273	↓2	22
10	Lillie	261	↓2	91
11	Elizabeth	243	↑4	9
12	Rosie	243	↑1	>100
13	Martha	232	↑1	21
14	Frances	227	↓2	10
15	Sarah	219	↑4	54
16	Mattie	213	↓7	>100
17	Margaret	196	↑1	4
18	Ethel	194	↓2	38
19	Jessie	194	↑1	94
20	Minnie	194	↓3	99
21	Bessie	189	↑3	81
22	Emma	182	–	53
23	Marie	177	↓2	14
24	Hazel	175	↑4	40
25	Alice	171	↑2	15
26	Thelma	170	↑7	31
27	Doris	169	↑3	11
28	Gladys	169	↓5	29
29	Clara	165	↑7	49
30	Edna	165	↓5	32
31	Virginia	160	↓5	7
32	Beatrice	156	↑7	46
33	Hattie	156	↑5	>100
34	Lillian	148	↑8	20
35	Lucille	147	↓6	35
36	Evelyn	145	↑5	12
37	Ella	144	↑3	93
38	Lula	142	↓1	>100
39	Ida	132	↓7	68
40	Laura	131	↑4	73
41	Carrie	130	↑5	>100
42	Juanita	129	↑3	51
43	Bertha	124	↑4	64
44	Bernice	123	↓10	43
45	Lois	123	new	27
46	Fannie	121	↓15	>100
47	Pauline	120	↑3	37
48	Eva	115	↑1	66
49	Mae	115	new	>100
50	Irene	112	↓15	17

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	James	1,547	–	4
2	John	969	–	1
3	William	877	–	3
4	Willie	811	–	30
5	Robert	790	–	2
6	George	450	–	6
7	Charles	430	–	5
8	Henry	334	–	18
9	Thomas	276	–	12
10	Walter	251	↑1	16
11	Joe	222	↓1	35
12	Joseph	205	↑2	7
13	Albert	204	–	20
14	Frank	204	↓2	11
15	Edward	202	–	8
16	Charlie	189	–	79
17	Jessie	182	–	>100
18	Johnnie	167	↑1	>100
19	Eddie	166	↓1	>100
20	Fred	164	↑5	33
21	David	160	–	24
22	Jack	151	↑4	17
23	Sam	140	↓1	89
24	Clarence	131	↑12	29
25	Richard	131	↓5	9
26	Samuel	127	↑6	45
27	Lee	123	↓3	85
28	Louis	123	↓5	27
29	Earl	122	↑2	31
30	Arthur	119	↑4	19
31	Howard	119	↓1	26
32	Eugene	114	↓5	25
33	Paul	111	–	14
34	Roy	110	↑3	32
35	Andrew	109	↑3	53
36	Leroy	107	↓8	55
37	Curtis	101	↑8	>100
38	Harold	100	↑1	13
39	Jimmie	96	↓4	>100
40	Ernest	90	↓11	38
41	Herman	90	↑7	66
42	Luther	84	↑5	>100
43	Leon	82	↑3	77
44	Carl	76	new	28
45	Clyde	73	↓5	68
46	Percy	72	↓5	>100
47	Clifton	71	new	>100
48	Ray	71	new	61
49	Oscar	70	new	96
50	Earnest	69	new	>100

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