Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1935

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1935 were Mary for girls (1,505 babies) and James for boys (1,638). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 42,448 babies born in Mississippi in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1935

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

Girls

Magnolia: 33 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Earlean: 23 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Rutha: 21 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Kattie: 23 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Myrtis: 28 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Ouida: 19 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Rosie: 232 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Earnestine: 65 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Callie: 38 babies, 9× the national rate
Lue: 21 babies, 8.8× the national rate

Boys

Rosevelt: 22 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Bonnie: 16 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Mose: 15 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Percy: 68 babies, 9× the national rate
Sammie: 55 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Will: 50 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Arther: 19 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Tommie: 80 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Roosevelt: 119 babies, 8× the national rate
Willie: 893 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	1,505	–	1
2	Dorothy	651	–	6
3	Betty	598	–	4
4	Annie	563	–	38
5	Shirley	455	↑23	2
6	Willie	310	↓1	99
7	Barbara	279	↑4	3
8	Martha	276	↓1	24
9	Ruby	276	↓3	41
10	Helen	241	↓2	10
11	Rosie	232	↑4	>100
12	Doris	217	↓2	13
13	Margaret	217	↓4	8
14	Mildred	210	↓1	35
15	Lillie	206	↑1	>100
16	Elizabeth	205	↑4	17
17	Sarah	195	↓5	61
18	Bobbie	188	–	>100
19	Frances	188	↓5	19
20	Mattie	188	↑1	>100
21	Louise	178	↓4	45
22	Ruth	175	↓3	15
23	Emma	164	↓1	89
24	Virginia	163	↑8	16
25	Jessie	151	↓1	>100
26	Bessie	150	↓1	>100
27	Clara	150	↑6	81
28	Minnie	144	↓2	>100
29	Peggy	141	↑2	36
30	Alice	138	↑4	25
31	Bernice	133	↓1	90
32	Thelma	133	↑3	76
33	Evelyn	132	↑12	31
34	Joyce	132	↓5	12
35	Carolyn	130	↑13	28
36	Ethel	130	↓13	82
37	Edna	126	↓10	67
38	Patricia	124	new	5
39	Marie	123	new	33
40	Catherine	122	↑1	42
41	Fannie	120	↑5	>100
42	Bertha	118	↑7	>100
43	Billie	117	↓6	>100
44	Johnnie	117	↓1	>100
45	Gladys	116	↓3	78
46	Georgia	110	↓6	>100
47	Juanita	110	↓8	72
48	Ella	109	↓10	>100
49	Ida	108	↓5	>100
50	Lula	107	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	James	1,638	–	2
2	Robert	934	–	1
3	Willie	893	↑1	30
4	John	884	↓1	3
5	William	769	–	4
6	Charles	744	–	6
7	George	451	↑1	8
8	Billy	421	↓1	19
9	Joe	385	–	25
10	Bobby	359	–	24
11	Henry	297	↑1	27
12	Thomas	282	↓1	9
13	Walter	233	–	23
14	Eddie	205	↑4	87
15	David	201	↓1	11
16	Edward	184	–	13
17	Frank	184	↓2	16
18	Jimmie	184	↑2	69
19	Charlie	176	↑4	100
20	Albert	173	↑2	31
21	Richard	172	↓4	5
22	Paul	171	↑7	14
23	Jerry	170	↑5	22
24	Joseph	169	↓5	10
25	Johnnie	161	↓1	>100
26	Fred	144	↑8	34
27	Jessie	142	–	>100
28	Jimmy	133	↑7	47
29	Donald	127	↑13	7
30	Leroy	127	↑7	50
31	Johnny	125	↑14	74
32	Lee	125	↓6	80
33	Eugene	122	↓3	26
34	Roosevelt	119	↓13	>100
35	Arthur	115	↑4	29
36	Clarence	113	↓3	48
37	Earl	113	↑1	46
38	Jack	112	↓13	18
39	Roy	112	↓3	40
40	Howard	105	↑1	39
41	Harold	104	↓9	20
42	Curtis	103	↑1	>100
43	Samuel	101	↑1	62
44	Sam	94	new	>100
45	Kenneth	93	↑2	15
46	Louis	93	↓15	42
47	Carl	90	↓7	28
48	Ernest	87	new	55
49	Andrew	84	new	85
50	Jesse	81	new	>100

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