Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1933

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1933 were Mary for girls (1,496 babies) and James for boys (1,511). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 39,042 babies born in Mississippi in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1933

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: 21 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Johnie: 15 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Earnestine: 69 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Magnolia: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Rosie: 211 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Callie: 37 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Ouida: 25 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Ruthie: 59 babies, 8× the national rate
Pearline: 25 babies, 7.3× the national rate

Boys

Wardell: 16 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Will: 54 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Booker: 31 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Otha: 17 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Percy: 73 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Rosevelt: 22 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Arther: 17 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Sammie: 51 babies, 9× the national rate
Tommie: 79 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Lamar: 33 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	1,496	–	1
2	Dorothy	641	–	4
3	Annie	553	–	37
4	Betty	549	–	2
5	Willie	313	–	93
6	Martha	276	↑2	27
7	Ruby	239	↓1	43
8	Lillie	232	↑5	>100
9	Helen	222	↓2	8
10	Sarah	215	↑11	58
11	Doris	212	↓2	10
12	Rosie	211	↓1	>100
13	Barbara	209	↑6	3
14	Ruth	209	↑3	13
15	Emma	191	–	75
16	Frances	185	↓2	18
17	Margaret	184	↑3	7
18	Louise	183	–	39
19	Mildred	173	↓9	32
20	Bessie	163	↑2	>100
21	Elizabeth	159	↓5	17
22	Mattie	157	↓10	>100
23	Bobbie	153	–	>100
24	Ethel	148	–	71
25	Virginia	145	↑3	15
26	Alice	142	↑1	22
27	Peggy	139	↑18	36
28	Minnie	133	↑2	>100
29	Bernice	130	↓3	83
30	Clara	130	↓1	67
31	Bertha	125	–	>100
32	Edna	125	–	55
33	Joyce	125	↑8	12
34	Hattie	123	↑10	>100
35	Jessie	123	↓10	>100
36	Gladys	121	↓3	60
37	Lula	121	↓3	>100
38	Ella	117	↑1	>100
39	Hazel	113	↑7	82
40	Carrie	112	↑7	>100
41	Fannie	110	↑2	>100
42	Thelma	109	↓5	57
43	Marie	107	↓3	33
44	Christine	106	new	>100
45	Ida	105	↓10	>100
46	Billie	102	↑4	92
47	Evelyn	102	↓11	30
48	Juanita	102	↓10	63
49	Johnnie	101	↓7	>100
50	Catherine	98	↓1	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	James	1,511	–	2
2	Robert	855	–	1
3	John	771	–	3
4	Willie	748	–	32
5	William	719	↑1	4
6	Charles	682	↓1	6
7	George	364	–	8
8	Billy	341	–	20
9	Joe	308	↑2	27
10	Thomas	275	↓1	10
11	Henry	268	↓1	24
12	Bobby	219	–	26
13	Edward	216	↑4	11
14	David	210	↑8	13
15	Walter	210	↓2	21
16	Frank	185	↓2	16
17	Eddie	179	↓2	93
18	Charlie	173	↓2	95
19	Albert	166	↓1	30
20	Roosevelt	162	↑21	>100
21	Jimmie	159	↑3	72
22	Joseph	158	↓2	9
23	Richard	153	↓2	5
24	Jessie	135	↓1	>100
25	Paul	131	↑1	14
26	Jack	127	↓1	17
27	Johnnie	127	↓8	>100
28	Roy	126	↑2	39
29	Lee	123	↑9	79
30	Harold	117	↑4	18
31	Jerry	114	↑8	31
32	Eugene	113	↓3	23
33	Fred	110	↓5	34
34	Leroy	109	↓2	56
35	Johnny	105	↑5	90
36	Clarence	103	↓9	43
37	Louis	100	↓1	40
38	Curtis	98	↓5	>100
39	Jimmy	97	↑9	64
40	Howard	93	↑7	36
41	Earl	92	↓10	41
42	Samuel	92	↑2	61
43	Earnest	91	new	>100
44	Leon	90	new	85
45	Arthur	86	↓10	25
46	Donald	86	↓9	7
47	Franklin	86	new	33
48	Bennie	84	new	>100
49	Kenneth	84	–	15
50	Ernest	83	↓8	50

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