Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1924

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1924 were Mary for girls (1,736 babies) and James for boys (1,646). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,281 babies born in Mississippi in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1924

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: 33 babies, 19× the national rate
Earlean: 19 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Birtha: 17 babies, 15× the national rate
Mandy: 19 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Myrtis: 38 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Magnolia: 25 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Idella: 25 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Johnie: 31 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Claudie: 17 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Rosie: 225 babies, 8.3× the national rate

Boys

Roosevelt: 81 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Booker: 36 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Rayford: 15 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Hilton: 23 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Mose: 17 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Will: 51 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Tommie: 57 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Isiah: 19 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Percy: 74 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Sammie: 33 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	1,736	–	1
2	Annie	684	–	32
3	Dorothy	469	↑1	2
4	Willie	446	↓1	68
5	Ruby	359	–	26
6	Helen	319	↑1	3
7	Mildred	292	↓1	8
8	Louise	268	↑1	24
9	Ruth	257	↓1	6
10	Frances	234	↑4	10
11	Elizabeth	230	–	11
12	Doris	225	↑15	9
13	Lillie	225	↓3	97
14	Rosie	225	↓2	>100
15	Margaret	222	↑2	5
16	Mattie	217	–	>100
17	Martha	215	↓4	21
18	Sarah	209	↓3	54
19	Ethel	202	↓1	39
20	Emma	196	↑2	57
21	Edna	193	↑9	31
22	Minnie	192	↓2	100
23	Gladys	190	↑5	30
24	Bessie	188	↓3	86
25	Jessie	177	↓6	91
26	Thelma	170	–	33
27	Virginia	170	↑4	7
28	Alice	167	↓3	15
29	Evelyn	167	↑7	12
30	Marie	161	↓7	14
31	Hazel	160	↓7	42
32	Lula	155	↑6	>100
33	Beatrice	151	↓1	50
34	Bernice	148	↑10	47
35	Lucille	147	–	37
36	Fannie	145	↑10	>100
37	Hattie	144	↓4	>100
38	Ida	140	↑1	70
39	Bertha	136	↑4	65
40	Maggie	134	new	>100
41	Carrie	132	–	>100
42	Clara	132	↓13	56
43	Catherine	128	new	27
44	Juanita	127	↓2	48
45	Lillian	124	↓11	23
46	Mamie	117	new	>100
47	Betty	113	new	4
48	Katie	113	new	>100
49	Katherine	111	new	59
50	Johnnie	110	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	James	1,646	–	4
2	John	941	–	2
3	William	872	–	3
4	Robert	820	↑1	1
5	Willie	762	↓1	30
6	Charles	447	↑1	5
7	George	425	↓1	6
8	Henry	356	–	18
9	Thomas	277	–	11
10	Walter	249	–	16
11	Joe	234	–	35
12	Charlie	204	↑4	80
13	Frank	203	↑1	12
14	Edward	199	↑1	9
15	Joseph	197	↓3	7
16	Johnnie	195	↑2	>100
17	Albert	181	↓4	21
18	Fred	166	↑2	32
19	Jessie	165	↓2	>100
20	David	159	↑1	24
21	Eddie	158	↓2	>100
22	Clarence	152	↑2	29
23	Louis	134	↑5	28
24	Jack	131	↓2	17
25	Richard	129	–	8
26	Lee	126	↑1	83
27	Eugene	120	↑5	25
28	Roy	120	↑6	31
29	Leroy	117	↑7	53
30	Samuel	116	↓4	45
31	Howard	112	–	26
32	Jimmie	112	↑7	>100
33	Earl	110	↓4	33
34	Arthur	107	↓4	20
35	Harold	106	↑3	13
36	Paul	101	↓3	14
37	Calvin	98	new	44
38	Sam	95	↓15	91
39	Andrew	92	↓4	56
40	Earnest	83	↑10	>100
41	Billy	81	new	63
42	Roosevelt	81	new	>100
43	Clyde	79	↑2	69
44	Curtis	79	↓7	>100
45	Ernest	79	↓5	37
46	Leon	79	↓3	76
47	Luther	76	↓5	>100
48	Percy	74	↓2	>100
49	Ralph	71	new	23
50	Herman	69	↓9	70

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