Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1927

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1927 were Mary for girls (1,841 babies) and James for boys (1,793). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 44,299 babies born in Mississippi in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1927

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

Girls

Ether: 19 babies, 23.4× the national rate
Birtha: 16 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Rutha: 23 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Earlean: 16 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Myrtis: 36 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Kattie: 20 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Bobbye: 21 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Lue: 25 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Magnolia: 20 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Tressie: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate

Boys

Rosevelt: 25 babies, 19× the national rate
Williams: 17 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Mose: 29 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Ivory: 20 babies, 12× the national rate
Booker: 34 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Isiah: 20 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Tommie: 88 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Percy: 89 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Will: 50 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Roosevelt: 78 babies, 8.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	1,841	–	1
2	Annie	662	–	36
3	Dorothy	605	–	2
4	Willie	454	–	71
5	Ruby	365	–	30
6	Mildred	323	↑1	11
7	Helen	295	↓1	4
8	Louise	290	–	27
9	Lillie	282	–	94
10	Ruth	263	–	6
11	Martha	248	↑5	24
12	Frances	243	↑5	12
13	Rosie	238	↓2	>100
14	Mattie	232	↓2	>100
15	Betty	225	↑13	3
16	Bessie	221	↓2	88
17	Doris	220	↑3	7
18	Ethel	219	↑6	47
19	Margaret	215	↓4	5
20	Jessie	214	↑1	95
21	Emma	206	↓8	64
22	Elizabeth	199	↓4	13
23	Edna	195	↑4	40
24	Sarah	192	↓5	61
25	Minnie	190	↓3	>100
26	Alice	188	–	17
27	Virginia	184	↓4	8
28	Marie	177	↑1	20
29	Gladys	172	↓4	37
30	Clara	167	↑5	63
31	Evelyn	164	↑6	15
32	Hazel	164	↑4	53
33	Lucille	153	↓1	45
34	Lula	153	↓3	>100
35	Christine	152	↑7	>100
36	Bernice	150	↓3	49
37	Thelma	149	↓7	38
38	Carrie	140	↑5	>100
39	Juanita	139	new	55
40	Ida	134	↓6	84
41	Ella	131	↓1	98
42	Hattie	131	↓3	>100
43	Beatrice	129	↑2	67
44	Fannie	126	↑2	>100
45	Bertha	125	↓7	80
46	Lillian	125	↓2	32
47	Maggie	123	↑1	>100
48	Catherine	121	↓1	31
49	Laura	119	new	82
50	Johnnie	114	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	1,793	–	3
2	John	970	–	2
3	Robert	932	↑1	1
4	William	889	↓1	4
5	Willie	835	–	27
6	Charles	545	–	5
7	George	469	–	7
8	Henry	345	–	19
9	Thomas	316	–	11
10	Joe	279	↑1	30
11	Walter	269	↓1	17
12	Frank	247	↑1	12
13	Joseph	232	↑1	9
14	Edward	228	↓2	10
15	Eddie	221	↑3	>100
16	Jessie	179	↓1	>100
17	Jack	177	↑7	16
18	Charlie	176	↓2	80
19	Albert	174	↑2	23
20	Billy	167	↑7	31
21	David	167	↓4	21
22	Fred	166	–	35
23	Richard	165	↓3	6
24	Johnnie	159	↓5	>100
25	Samuel	143	↑7	49
26	Clarence	141	↓3	32
27	Howard	140	↑11	28
28	Louis	132	↑5	29
29	Jimmie	128	↑6	>100
30	Eugene	127	↓2	20
31	Earl	121	↑3	33
32	Roy	121	↓6	34
33	Curtis	118	↑7	>100
34	Leroy	115	↓5	51
35	Sam	115	↓4	>100
36	Paul	113	↓11	13
37	Harold	111	–	14
38	Lee	111	↓2	86
39	Andrew	108	↑4	56
40	Floyd	103	↑6	53
41	Arthur	101	↓2	22
42	Carl	97	new	26
43	Jesse	93	↑4	89
44	Ernest	91	↓14	41
45	Leon	89	↑4	78
46	Percy	89	new	>100
47	Tommie	88	↓3	>100
48	Clyde	87	new	68
49	Earnest	83	↓8	>100
50	Roosevelt	78	new	>100

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