Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1932

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1932 were Mary for girls (1,570 babies) and James for boys (1,633). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,804 babies born in Mississippi in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1932

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: 19 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Rutha: 24 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Magnolia: 21 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Earlean: 20 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Ouida: 26 babies, 11× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 10× the national rate
Johnie: 21 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Berneice: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Rosie: 248 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Ruthie: 64 babies, 8.5× the national rate

Boys

Will: 56 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Isiah: 25 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Otha: 20 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Percy: 76 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Booker: 27 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Tommie: 79 babies, 9× the national rate
Sammie: 55 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Jeff: 25 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Rosevelt: 18 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Arther: 16 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	1,570	–	1
2	Dorothy	628	–	4
3	Annie	584	–	41
4	Betty	539	–	2
5	Willie	330	–	91
6	Ruby	320	–	38
7	Helen	288	↑3	8
8	Martha	263	↓1	27
9	Doris	255	↑4	10
10	Mildred	248	↑1	26
11	Rosie	248	↓2	>100
12	Mattie	226	↑4	>100
13	Lillie	224	↑2	>100
14	Frances	214	↑5	19
15	Emma	203	↑8	76
16	Elizabeth	202	↓2	17
17	Ruth	200	↑1	11
18	Louise	195	↓6	36
19	Barbara	191	↑15	3
20	Margaret	188	↓12	7
21	Sarah	185	↓4	67
22	Bessie	175	↑5	>100
23	Bobbie	172	↓1	>100
24	Ethel	172	↓4	66
25	Jessie	167	↓1	>100
26	Bernice	166	↓5	71
27	Alice	164	↓1	21
28	Virginia	158	↑2	14
29	Clara	156	–	70
30	Minnie	150	↓5	>100
31	Bertha	148	new	>100
32	Edna	146	↑3	50
33	Gladys	146	↓5	54
34	Lula	142	↑5	>100
35	Ida	140	↓4	>100
36	Evelyn	139	↑2	23
37	Thelma	139	↓5	51
38	Juanita	134	new	58
39	Ella	131	↑1	>100
40	Marie	129	↓7	31
41	Joyce	126	↓4	12
42	Johnnie	124	↑8	>100
43	Fannie	114	new	>100
44	Hattie	114	↓8	>100
45	Peggy	113	↑3	40
46	Hazel	112	↑3	75
47	Carrie	109	↓6	>100
48	Mae	109	↓1	>100
49	Catherine	108	↓3	39
50	Billie	106	↓7	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	James	1,633	–	2
2	Robert	934	–	1
3	John	855	–	3
4	Willie	823	–	31
5	Charles	716	↑1	6
6	William	704	↓1	4
7	George	444	–	8
8	Billy	353	↑1	20
9	Thomas	314	↑3	10
10	Henry	311	↓2	23
11	Joe	281	↓1	29
12	Bobby	241	↑1	30
13	Walter	224	↓2	21
14	Frank	211	↑8	15
15	Eddie	204	↑1	91
16	Charlie	182	↑4	90
17	Edward	180	↓2	11
18	Albert	179	–	26
19	Johnnie	171	↑5	>100
20	Joseph	171	↓1	9
21	Richard	170	–	5
22	David	162	↓8	12
23	Jessie	162	↓6	>100
24	Jimmie	155	↑1	75
25	Jack	140	↑3	17
26	Paul	137	↓3	13
27	Clarence	130	↑6	40
28	Fred	127	↓2	33
29	Eugene	125	↑8	22
30	Roy	121	↓1	38
31	Earl	118	↑7	41
32	Leroy	117	↓2	53
33	Curtis	116	↑6	>100
34	Harold	115	–	18
35	Arthur	114	↓3	25
36	Louis	114	↓9	39
37	Donald	109	↑5	7
38	Lee	108	↓3	86
39	Jerry	106	new	34
40	Johnny	105	↑4	96
41	Roosevelt	105	new	>100
42	Ernest	102	↑1	47
43	Sam	93	↓3	>100
44	Samuel	91	↓8	56
45	Carl	87	↓4	28
46	Herbert	85	new	44
47	Howard	84	↓16	36
48	Jimmy	84	↑2	76
49	Kenneth	82	↓4	14
50	Tommie	79	↓1	>100

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