Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1937

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1937 were Mary for girls (1,500 babies) and James for boys (1,698). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 42,841 babies born in Mississippi in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1937

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: 23 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Kattie: 23 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Magnolia: 16 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Lovie: 18 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Earnestine: 82 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Rutha: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Rosie: 227 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Bobbye: 19 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Pearlie: 75 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Myrtis: 18 babies, 9.2× the national rate

Boys

Rosevelt: 19 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Mose: 15 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Percy: 76 babies, 11× the national rate
Otha: 17 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Tommie: 103 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Arther: 15 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Will: 40 babies, 9× the national rate
Mckinley: 17 babies, 9× the national rate
Sammie: 51 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Roosevelt: 113 babies, 8.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	1,500	–	1
2	Betty	614	↑1	5
3	Dorothy	561	↓1	8
4	Annie	522	–	46
5	Shirley	484	–	4
6	Barbara	385	↑1	2
7	Willie	311	↓1	>100
8	Martha	292	–	24
9	Ruby	251	↑1	52
10	Doris	246	↑1	22
11	Lillie	227	↑1	>100
12	Rosie	227	↑4	>100
13	Margaret	219	↑6	10
14	Helen	210	↓5	12
15	Peggy	209	↑2	31
16	Sarah	205	↑2	65
17	Mattie	196	↑6	>100
18	Frances	193	↓5	19
19	Elizabeth	189	↑2	17
20	Bobbie	183	–	>100
21	Alice	177	↑6	28
22	Mildred	171	↓7	43
23	Louise	170	↓9	48
24	Emma	156	↑2	89
25	Patricia	156	↑9	3
26	Carolyn	155	↑6	20
27	Bessie	154	↑11	>100
28	Minnie	153	↓4	>100
29	Nancy	153	↑4	7
30	Virginia	153	↓8	16
31	Edna	148	↑5	74
32	Jessie	141	↓4	>100
33	Clara	133	new	100
34	Ethel	131	↓3	88
35	Joyce	130	↑5	11
36	Lula	129	↑9	>100
37	Bernice	123	↑2	>100
38	Thelma	123	↓8	78
39	Ruth	122	↓14	15
40	Bertha	121	↓5	>100
41	Gloria	117	new	32
42	Marie	113	↑6	35
43	Billie	111	new	>100
44	Hattie	109	↓7	>100
45	Ella	108	↓16	>100
46	Juanita	104	new	75
47	Gladys	103	↓4	86
48	Johnnie	103	↑1	>100
49	Ann	100	new	30
50	Jean	100	new	23

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	James	1,698	–	2
2	John	957	–	3
3	Robert	934	–	1
4	Willie	797	–	32
5	William	761	–	4
6	Charles	743	–	6
7	Joe	459	–	25
8	Billy	407	↑1	22
9	George	394	↓1	10
10	Bobby	344	–	24
11	Thomas	296	–	9
12	Henry	281	–	30
13	Eddie	223	↑1	83
14	Jimmie	223	↑1	72
15	Jimmy	223	↑7	45
16	Walter	213	↓3	26
17	David	209	↑4	8
18	Joseph	204	↓2	12
19	Edward	193	↓2	13
20	Jerry	188	↑3	17
21	Richard	180	↓1	5
22	Frank	175	↓4	18
23	Charlie	168	↓4	>100
24	Johnnie	162	↑5	>100
25	Albert	149	↓1	37
26	Jessie	144	↑1	>100
27	Johnny	144	↑1	69
28	Donald	143	↓2	7
29	Harold	143	↑11	21
30	Eugene	140	↑7	33
31	Lee	139	↓6	78
32	Roy	139	↓1	40
33	Paul	134	↑3	15
34	Fred	120	–	35
35	Clarence	118	↑3	54
36	Louis	116	↓6	46
37	Roosevelt	113	↓2	>100
38	Arthur	112	↑7	31
39	Kenneth	112	↑7	14
40	Leroy	111	↓8	56
41	Jack	108	↓2	23
42	Howard	106	↑2	42
43	Tommie	103	new	>100
44	Earl	101	↓2	48
45	Carl	99	↓2	28
46	Jesse	96	new	>100
47	Larry	95	new	16
48	Samuel	95	↑2	66
49	Ernest	94	new	53
50	Curtis	93	↓17	>100

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