Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1929

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1929 were Mary for girls (1,623 babies) and James for boys (1,594). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,349 babies born in Mississippi in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1929

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

Girls

Earlean: 21 babies, 20.2× the national rate
Magnolia: 23 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Kattie: 18 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Myrtis: 29 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Rubie: 18 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Earnestine: 58 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Eddie: 58 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Sammie: 17 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Lue: 23 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Lovie: 15 babies, 8.7× the national rate

Boys

Booker: 33 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Otha: 23 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 92 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Percy: 82 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Will: 44 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Dewitt: 17 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Johnie: 73 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Sammie: 43 babies, 8× the national rate
Isiah: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Willie: 830 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	1,623	–	1
2	Annie	628	↑1	37
3	Dorothy	564	↓1	3
4	Willie	400	–	76
5	Betty	323	↑4	2
6	Ruby	293	↓1	36
7	Helen	280	–	4
8	Lillie	267	↑7	>100
9	Mildred	260	↓3	18
10	Louise	255	↑9	31
11	Mattie	245	↑2	>100
12	Doris	237	–	6
13	Ruth	234	↓3	8
14	Martha	225	↓3	27
15	Rosie	211	↓7	>100
16	Frances	208	↑1	16
17	Margaret	201	↓3	5
18	Jessie	183	↑9	>100
19	Elizabeth	182	↓1	15
20	Sarah	176	↓4	68
21	Emma	171	↑4	69
22	Bernice	167	↑4	55
23	Virginia	164	↓1	11
24	Bessie	161	↓1	>100
25	Clara	161	↑7	65
26	Ethel	156	↑2	56
27	Minnie	154	↓3	>100
28	Bertha	150	↑11	93
29	Evelyn	150	↓8	19
30	Hattie	144	↑16	>100
31	Alice	143	↓1	21
32	Lula	143	↑10	>100
33	Hazel	142	–	64
34	Marie	141	↓3	22
35	Ida	139	↓1	96
36	Bobbie	136	↑9	>100
37	Thelma	136	–	41
38	Ella	132	↓3	>100
39	Lucille	132	↓10	57
40	Edna	129	↓20	51
41	Gladys	127	↓3	44
42	Catherine	121	↓2	34
43	Juanita	118	–	60
44	Carrie	114	↑4	>100
45	Mae	114	new	>100
46	Beatrice	108	↓2	72
47	Joyce	105	new	23
48	Fannie	104	↓7	>100
49	Johnnie	104	new	>100
50	Georgia	100	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	James	1,594	–	2
2	John	914	–	3
3	Willie	830	↑1	29
4	William	820	↓1	4
5	Robert	771	–	1
6	Charles	571	–	5
7	George	424	–	8
8	Henry	328	–	21
9	Thomas	321	–	11
10	Joe	277	–	30
11	Billy	225	↑8	23
12	Walter	223	↓1	19
13	Edward	211	–	10
14	Frank	203	↑2	12
15	Charlie	192	↓3	87
16	David	175	↑8	17
17	Eddie	169	↑1	>100
18	Jessie	165	↓3	>100
19	Joseph	165	↓5	9
20	Albert	161	↓3	24
21	Johnnie	159	↑2	>100
22	Jimmie	148	–	98
23	Richard	147	↓2	6
24	Clarence	143	↑2	37
25	Fred	139	–	34
26	Jack	138	↓6	14
27	Louis	129	↑1	32
28	Herbert	128	↑7	25
29	Leroy	122	↓2	51
30	Roy	119	↑2	35
31	Bobby	115	↑19	50
32	Eugene	114	↓3	20
33	Earl	113	↑3	36
34	Lee	113	–	85
35	Curtis	110	↑2	99
36	Harold	103	↓3	16
37	Sam	102	↑4	>100
38	Paul	98	↓7	13
39	Arthur	97	↑3	22
40	Howard	97	↓10	31
41	Andrew	95	↓1	59
42	Roosevelt	92	↑3	>100
43	Ernest	91	↓4	43
44	Floyd	91	↑4	58
45	Samuel	90	↓7	53
46	Carl	88	new	28
47	Luther	85	new	>100
48	Herman	82	↓1	75
49	Percy	82	↓6	>100
50	Earnest	77	↓4	>100

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