Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1930

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1930 were Mary for girls (1,664 babies) and James for boys (1,737). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 42,400 babies born in Mississippi in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1930

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: 24 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Mandy: 15 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Myrtis: 33 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Kattie: 20 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Magnolia: 18 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Ruthie: 75 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Earnestine: 63 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Johnie: 18 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Rosie: 227 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Dessie: 29 babies, 8× the national rate

Boys

Prentiss: 17 babies, 25.5× the national rate
Booker: 43 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Arther: 21 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Tommie: 95 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Roosevelt: 91 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Will: 44 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Percy: 71 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Dewitt: 19 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Jessie: 190 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Willie: 913 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	1,664	–	1
2	Annie	650	–	40
3	Dorothy	634	–	3
4	Betty	412	↑1	2
5	Willie	341	↓1	87
6	Ruby	299	–	36
7	Helen	276	–	4
8	Ruth	259	↑5	10
9	Lillie	251	↓1	>100
10	Mildred	250	↓1	21
11	Martha	242	↑3	27
12	Louise	231	↓2	31
13	Rosie	227	↑2	>100
14	Mattie	218	↓3	>100
15	Doris	212	↓3	9
16	Margaret	203	↑1	5
17	Sarah	202	↑3	70
18	Emma	188	↑3	73
19	Frances	188	↓3	16
20	Minnie	183	↑7	>100
21	Elizabeth	182	↓2	15
22	Bernice	179	–	58
23	Bessie	175	↑1	>100
24	Ethel	172	↑2	65
25	Virginia	172	↓2	12
26	Bobbie	156	↑10	>100
27	Alice	153	↑4	20
28	Jessie	153	↓10	>100
29	Ella	151	↑9	>100
30	Clara	148	↓5	64
31	Bertha	146	↓3	95
32	Thelma	145	↑5	45
33	Gladys	143	↑8	48
34	Lula	142	↓2	>100
35	Evelyn	141	↓6	19
36	Hattie	140	↓6	>100
37	Hazel	138	↓4	71
38	Marie	136	↓4	26
39	Ida	130	↓4	94
40	Edna	129	–	51
41	Carrie	120	↑3	>100
42	Juanita	119	↑1	57
43	Mae	113	↑2	>100
44	Fannie	112	↑4	>100
45	Beatrice	111	↑1	76
46	Johnnie	111	↑3	>100
47	Joyce	111	–	18
48	Catherine	107	↓6	35
49	Billie	105	new	79
50	Christine	98	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	James	1,737	–	2
2	John	923	–	3
3	Willie	913	–	29
4	Robert	901	↑1	1
5	William	807	↓1	4
6	Charles	628	–	6
7	George	438	–	8
8	Billy	312	↑3	20
9	Thomas	304	–	11
10	Joe	301	–	27
11	Henry	297	↓3	22
12	Walter	263	–	19
13	Eddie	222	↑4	97
14	Edward	217	↓1	10
15	Joseph	199	↑4	9
16	Frank	191	↓2	13
17	Jessie	190	↑1	>100
18	Albert	182	↑2	24
19	Johnnie	181	↑2	>100
20	David	179	↓4	15
21	Charlie	176	↓6	91
22	Bobby	173	↑9	41
23	Jimmie	173	↓1	86
24	Richard	156	↓1	5
25	Jack	154	↑1	14
26	Louis	154	↑1	34
27	Eugene	141	↑5	21
28	Clarence	130	↓4	39
29	Roy	130	↑1	33
30	Lee	129	↑4	82
31	Fred	125	↓6	32
32	Howard	119	↑8	31
33	Paul	118	↑5	12
34	Arthur	117	↑5	23
35	Earl	116	↓2	38
36	Andrew	109	↑5	62
37	Leroy	108	↓8	53
38	Herbert	105	↓10	35
39	Curtis	104	↓4	>100
40	Samuel	103	↑5	55
41	Sam	102	↓4	>100
42	Harold	101	↓6	18
43	Tommie	95	new	>100
44	Ernest	92	↓1	43
45	Roosevelt	91	↓3	>100
46	Kenneth	90	new	17
47	Leon	88	new	81
48	Carl	85	↓2	26
49	Clyde	80	new	76
50	Johnny	80	new	>100

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