Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1926

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,714 babies) and James for boys (1,854). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 43,987 babies born in Mississippi in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1926

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: 30 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Birtha: 22 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Magnolia: 28 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Rosia: 18 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Myrtis: 35 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Lue: 22 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Rosie: 258 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Freddie: 33 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Idella: 25 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Johnie: 29 babies, 7.9× the national rate

Boys

Tommie: 84 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Isiah: 22 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Otha: 21 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Sammie: 46 babies, 9× the national rate
Dock: 16 babies, 9× the national rate
Booker: 26 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Jessie: 219 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Dewitt: 18 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Ollie: 46 babies, 8× the national rate
Johnie: 83 babies, 7.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,714	–	1
2	Annie	729	–	34
3	Dorothy	562	–	2
4	Willie	489	–	73
5	Ruby	359	–	30
6	Helen	343	↑2	4
7	Mildred	289	↓1	9
8	Louise	277	↑3	27
9	Lillie	267	–	99
10	Ruth	266	–	6
11	Rosie	258	↑1	>100
12	Mattie	245	↓5	>100
13	Emma	239	↑8	59
14	Bessie	238	↑5	89
15	Margaret	237	↑2	5
16	Martha	236	↓2	24
17	Frances	234	↓2	10
18	Elizabeth	218	↓2	11
19	Sarah	218	↓6	63
20	Doris	215	↑3	7
21	Jessie	210	↓1	93
22	Minnie	194	↑8	>100
23	Virginia	191	↑2	8
24	Ethel	190	↓6	41
25	Gladys	187	↑3	35
26	Alice	183	↑3	17
27	Edna	183	↓1	38
28	Betty	180	↑17	3
29	Marie	179	↓5	18
30	Thelma	166	↑1	36
31	Lula	162	↑4	>100
32	Lucille	153	↑2	43
33	Bernice	152	↑4	45
34	Ida	151	↑4	82
35	Clara	149	↓8	61
36	Hazel	146	↓14	48
37	Evelyn	145	↓5	13
38	Bertha	144	new	76
39	Hattie	138	↓6	>100
40	Ella	134	↓4	98
41	Mae	134	new	>100
42	Christine	130	new	>100
43	Carrie	128	↑1	>100
44	Lillian	127	↑5	28
45	Beatrice	125	↓3	58
46	Fannie	123	↓3	>100
47	Catherine	122	↑1	31
48	Maggie	121	↓1	>100
49	Lois	120	new	19
50	Irene	117	↓10	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	James	1,854	–	3
2	John	1,083	–	2
3	William	942	–	4
4	Robert	886	↑1	1
5	Willie	868	↓1	28
6	Charles	498	–	5
7	George	425	–	6
8	Henry	337	–	19
9	Thomas	309	–	11
10	Walter	285	–	17
11	Joe	259	–	33
12	Edward	238	↑2	10
13	Frank	228	↑4	12
14	Joseph	228	↓2	8
15	Jessie	219	↑3	>100
16	Charlie	198	↓3	81
17	David	195	↑4	22
18	Eddie	193	↓2	>100
19	Johnnie	178	–	>100
20	Richard	165	↑3	7
21	Albert	162	↓6	21
22	Fred	160	↑3	31
23	Clarence	153	↓1	29
24	Jack	152	↓4	16
25	Paul	140	↑7	13
26	Roy	140	↑8	34
27	Billy	131	↑13	40
28	Eugene	126	↓1	23
29	Leroy	122	↓3	51
30	Ernest	118	↑9	37
31	Sam	118	↑7	92
32	Samuel	117	↓2	48
33	Louis	116	–	30
34	Earl	115	↓3	32
35	Jimmie	115	↓7	>100
36	Lee	110	↓7	85
37	Harold	107	↓2	14
38	Howard	105	↓1	27
39	Arthur	94	↓15	20
40	Curtis	92	new	>100
41	Earnest	91	↑7	>100
42	Herman	91	↑3	69
43	Andrew	85	↓7	59
44	Tommie	84	↓3	>100
45	Johnie	83	↑1	>100
46	Floyd	82	↓4	53
47	Jesse	82	↓4	87
48	Calvin	81	↓1	65
49	Leon	81	new	73
50	Cecil	78	new	86

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