Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1934

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1934 were Mary for girls (1,492 babies) and James for boys (1,601). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,949 babies born in Mississippi in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1934

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: 25 babies, 18× the national rate
Kattie: 19 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Ouida: 27 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Myrtis: 24 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Lue: 26 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Johnie: 17 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Sammie: 25 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Rosie: 208 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Ora: 80 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Bobbye: 22 babies, 7.7× the national rate

Boys

Prentiss: 17 babies, 29.9× the national rate
Rosevelt: 26 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Arther: 24 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Otha: 25 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Booker: 35 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Will: 44 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Tommie: 85 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Percy: 67 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Anderson: 16 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 156 babies, 8.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	1,492	–	1
2	Dorothy	657	–	5
3	Betty	578	↑1	2
4	Annie	549	↓1	38
5	Willie	312	–	>100
6	Ruby	284	↑1	39
7	Martha	268	↓1	27
8	Helen	255	↑1	9
9	Margaret	234	↑8	8
10	Doris	230	↑1	11
11	Barbara	224	↑2	3
12	Sarah	217	↓2	67
13	Mildred	216	↑6	35
14	Frances	211	↑2	19
15	Rosie	208	↓3	>100
16	Lillie	207	↓8	>100
17	Louise	193	↑1	40
18	Bobbie	187	↑5	>100
19	Ruth	185	↓5	13
20	Elizabeth	184	↑1	18
21	Mattie	183	↑1	>100
22	Emma	177	↓7	85
23	Ethel	160	↑1	78
24	Jessie	159	↑11	>100
25	Bessie	156	↓5	>100
26	Minnie	156	↑2	>100
27	Edna	154	↑5	55
28	Shirley	152	new	4
29	Joyce	151	↑4	12
30	Bernice	149	↓1	82
31	Peggy	149	↓4	36
32	Virginia	147	↓7	15
33	Clara	132	↓3	76
34	Alice	126	↓8	25
35	Thelma	125	↑7	65
36	Hattie	124	↓2	>100
37	Billie	123	↑9	92
38	Ella	122	–	>100
39	Juanita	122	↑9	64
40	Georgia	121	new	>100
41	Catherine	120	↑9	42
42	Gladys	119	↓6	66
43	Johnnie	117	↑6	>100
44	Ida	115	↑1	>100
45	Evelyn	112	↑2	29
46	Fannie	112	↓5	>100
47	Hazel	110	↓8	87
48	Carolyn	109	new	33
49	Bertha	107	↓18	>100
50	Christine	106	↓6	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	James	1,601	–	2
2	Robert	892	–	1
3	John	873	–	3
4	Willie	799	–	30
5	William	728	–	4
6	Charles	715	–	7
7	Billy	449	↑1	20
8	George	396	↓1	8
9	Joe	323	–	26
10	Bobby	314	↑2	23
11	Thomas	308	↓1	9
12	Henry	293	↓1	27
13	Walter	216	↑2	21
14	David	195	–	12
15	Frank	192	↑1	16
16	Edward	169	↓3	13
17	Richard	169	↑6	5
18	Eddie	167	↓1	92
19	Joseph	164	↑3	10
20	Jimmie	159	↑1	68
21	Roosevelt	156	↓1	>100
22	Albert	148	↓3	32
23	Charlie	148	↓5	100
24	Johnnie	139	↑3	>100
25	Jack	135	↑1	17
26	Lee	134	↑3	79
27	Jessie	131	↓3	>100
28	Jerry	129	↑3	25
29	Paul	129	↓4	14
30	Eugene	125	↑2	24
31	Louis	125	↑6	40
32	Harold	124	↓2	18
33	Clarence	119	↑3	45
34	Fred	117	↓1	33
35	Jimmy	113	↑4	56
36	Roy	112	↓8	35
37	Leroy	109	↓3	54
38	Earl	108	↑3	41
39	Arthur	107	↑6	29
40	Carl	101	new	28
41	Howard	101	↓1	37
42	Donald	100	↑4	6
43	Curtis	99	↓5	>100
44	Samuel	98	↓2	66
45	Johnny	97	↓10	83
46	Tommy	89	new	98
47	Kenneth	87	↑2	15
48	Melvin	87	new	55
49	Earnest	86	↓6	>100
50	Tommie	85	new	>100

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