Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1936

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1936 were Mary for girls (1,550 babies) and James for boys (1,582). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,075 babies born in Mississippi in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1936

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: 17 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Kattie: 16 babies, 13× the national rate
Earnestine: 67 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Callie: 33 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Rosie: 197 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Myrtis: 22 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Eddie: 45 babies, 8× the national rate
Ora: 72 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Ruthie: 60 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Doretha: 18 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Boys

Rosevelt: 17 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Percy: 79 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Booker: 27 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Sammie: 51 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 115 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Ollie: 31 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Johnie: 45 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Tommie: 73 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Will: 32 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Jessie: 136 babies, 7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	1,550	–	1
2	Dorothy	591	–	6
3	Betty	558	–	4
4	Annie	528	–	45
5	Shirley	443	–	2
6	Willie	311	–	>100
7	Barbara	303	–	3
8	Martha	280	–	24
9	Helen	248	↑1	11
10	Ruby	244	↓1	51
11	Doris	236	↑1	15
12	Lillie	231	↑3	>100
13	Frances	201	↑6	19
14	Louise	198	↑7	46
15	Mildred	197	↓1	40
16	Rosie	197	↓5	>100
17	Peggy	195	↑12	35
18	Sarah	195	↓1	63
19	Margaret	191	↓6	9
20	Bobbie	185	↓2	>100
21	Elizabeth	181	↓5	18
22	Virginia	178	↑2	14
23	Mattie	168	↓3	>100
24	Minnie	165	↑4	>100
25	Ruth	165	↓3	16
26	Emma	164	↓3	85
27	Alice	154	↑3	27
28	Jessie	152	↓3	>100
29	Ella	148	↑19	>100
30	Thelma	145	↑2	74
31	Ethel	142	↑5	90
32	Carolyn	139	↑3	23
33	Nancy	135	new	8
34	Patricia	134	↑4	5
35	Bertha	129	↑7	>100
36	Edna	129	↑1	71
37	Hattie	127	new	>100
38	Bessie	124	↓12	>100
39	Bernice	123	↓8	95
40	Joyce	123	↓6	12
41	Hazel	118	new	96
42	Evelyn	115	↓9	34
43	Gladys	114	↑2	84
44	Mae	114	new	>100
45	Lula	109	↑5	>100
46	Bonnie	108	new	65
47	Catherine	106	↓7	44
48	Marie	106	↓9	33
49	Johnnie	105	↓5	>100
50	Christine	104	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	James	1,582	–	2
2	John	946	↑2	3
3	Robert	862	↓1	1
4	Willie	789	↓1	32
5	William	778	–	4
6	Charles	655	–	6
7	Joe	427	↑2	23
8	George	421	↓1	9
9	Billy	420	↓1	22
10	Bobby	329	–	24
11	Thomas	292	↑1	8
12	Henry	281	↓1	28
13	Walter	228	–	26
14	Eddie	200	–	79
15	Jimmie	199	↑3	71
16	Joseph	190	↑8	11
17	Edward	184	↓1	13
18	Frank	184	↓1	16
19	Charlie	179	–	>100
20	Richard	176	↑1	5
21	David	172	↓6	10
22	Jimmy	171	↑6	46
23	Jerry	170	–	18
24	Albert	159	↓4	34
25	Lee	152	↑7	76
26	Donald	146	↑3	7
27	Jessie	136	–	>100
28	Johnny	128	↑3	72
29	Johnnie	124	↓4	>100
30	Louis	124	↑16	44
31	Roy	121	↑8	42
32	Leroy	118	↓2	57
33	Curtis	116	↑9	>100
34	Fred	116	↓8	36
35	Roosevelt	115	↓1	>100
36	Paul	114	↓14	15
37	Eugene	113	↓4	29
38	Clarence	111	↓2	52
39	Jack	104	↓1	20
40	Harold	102	↑1	21
41	Sam	102	↑3	>100
42	Earl	101	↓5	47
43	Carl	98	↑4	27
44	Howard	95	↓4	40
45	Arthur	94	↓10	30
46	Kenneth	92	↓1	14
47	Melvin	90	new	53
48	Andrew	80	↑1	83
49	Percy	79	new	>100
50	Samuel	79	↓7	67

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