Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1925

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1925 were Mary for girls (1,777 babies) and James for boys (1,659). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 42,241 babies born in Mississippi in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1925

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: 36 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Pinkie: 18 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Kattie: 22 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Myrtis: 38 babies, 11× the national rate
Lue: 30 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Johnie: 34 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Claudie: 20 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Rosie: 248 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Mandy: 16 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Earnestine: 47 babies, 8.2× the national rate

Boys

Prentiss: 15 babies, 38.1× the national rate
Ezell: 15 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Tommie: 89 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Mose: 18 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Roosevelt: 77 babies, 10× the national rate
Otha: 19 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Booker: 26 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Sammie: 44 babies, 9× the national rate
Johnie: 84 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Will: 54 babies, 8.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	1,777	–	1
2	Annie	636	–	32
3	Dorothy	482	–	2
4	Willie	440	–	68
5	Ruby	348	–	30
6	Mildred	306	↑1	9
7	Mattie	304	↑9	100
8	Helen	300	↓2	4
9	Lillie	276	↑4	91
10	Ruth	266	↓1	6
11	Louise	261	↓3	27
12	Rosie	248	↑2	>100
13	Sarah	234	↑5	58
14	Martha	233	↑3	23
15	Frances	221	↓5	11
16	Elizabeth	215	↓5	10
17	Margaret	211	↓2	5
18	Ethel	203	↑1	43
19	Bessie	202	↑5	87
20	Jessie	199	↑5	97
21	Emma	193	↓1	57
22	Hazel	193	↑9	45
23	Doris	190	↓11	8
24	Marie	187	↑6	16
25	Virginia	183	↑2	7
26	Edna	179	↓5	37
27	Clara	173	↑15	55
28	Gladys	173	↓5	33
29	Alice	171	↓1	15
30	Minnie	170	↓8	>100
31	Thelma	169	↓5	35
32	Evelyn	161	↓3	12
33	Hattie	154	↑4	>100
34	Lucille	151	↑1	41
35	Lula	150	↓3	>100
36	Ella	142	new	93
37	Bernice	140	↓3	46
38	Ida	136	–	82
39	Juanita	134	↑5	49
40	Irene	131	new	19
41	Pauline	130	new	38
42	Beatrice	129	↓9	50
43	Fannie	128	↓7	>100
44	Carrie	127	↓3	>100
45	Betty	126	↑2	3
46	Laura	126	new	75
47	Maggie	125	↓7	>100
48	Catherine	121	↓5	29
49	Lillian	119	↓4	25
50	Eva	118	new	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	James	1,659	–	4
2	John	976	–	2
3	William	877	–	3
4	Willie	855	↑1	27
5	Robert	843	↓1	1
6	Charles	513	–	5
7	George	458	–	6
8	Henry	371	–	18
9	Thomas	309	–	11
10	Walter	251	–	16
11	Joe	223	–	34
12	Joseph	221	↑3	7
13	Charlie	213	↓1	78
14	Edward	196	–	9
15	Albert	189	↑2	21
16	Eddie	185	↑5	>100
17	Frank	182	↓4	12
18	Jessie	177	↑1	>100
19	Johnnie	166	↓3	100
20	Jack	165	↑4	17
21	David	163	↓1	22
22	Clarence	159	–	30
23	Richard	155	↑2	8
24	Arthur	138	↑10	20
25	Fred	136	↓7	33
26	Leroy	132	↑3	52
27	Eugene	131	–	24
28	Jimmie	124	↑4	>100
29	Lee	124	↓3	82
30	Samuel	113	–	46
31	Earl	111	↑2	31
32	Paul	109	↑4	13
33	Louis	108	↓10	29
34	Roy	107	↓6	32
35	Harold	104	–	14
36	Andrew	103	↑3	56
37	Howard	102	↓6	26
38	Sam	101	–	91
39	Ernest	95	↑6	37
40	Billy	93	↑1	49
41	Tommie	89	new	>100
42	Floyd	87	new	58
43	Jesse	87	new	85
44	Carl	85	new	28
45	Herman	84	↑5	69
46	Johnie	84	new	>100
47	Calvin	83	↓10	47
48	Earnest	80	↓8	>100
49	Harry	79	new	23
50	Ralph	78	↓1	25

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