Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1938

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1938 were Mary for girls (1,539 babies) and James for boys (1,720). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 43,999 babies born in Mississippi in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1938

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

Girls

Florida: 15 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Earlean: 20 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Kattie: 15 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Magnolia: 15 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Lue: 26 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Myrtis: 24 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Pearlie: 80 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Ouida: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Ora: 78 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Rosie: 207 babies, 8.5× the national rate

Boys

Ezell: 18 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Rosevelt: 18 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Otha: 21 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Mckinley: 18 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Percy: 75 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Arther: 21 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Roosevelt: 135 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Mose: 18 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Booker: 32 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Tommie: 96 babies, 9.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Mary	1,539	–	1
2	Betty	663	–	4
3	Dorothy	635	–	8
4	Annie	527	–	47
5	Shirley	449	–	5
6	Barbara	431	–	2
7	Martha	324	↑1	26
8	Willie	288	↓1	>100
9	Ruby	267	–	61
10	Doris	254	–	25
11	Margaret	236	↑2	9
12	Peggy	214	↑3	35
13	Lillie	210	↓2	>100
14	Rosie	207	↓2	>100
15	Elizabeth	205	↑4	17
16	Helen	205	↓2	13
17	Sarah	204	↓1	67
18	Carolyn	191	↑8	15
19	Ethel	191	↑15	94
20	Emma	190	↑4	96
21	Mattie	189	↓4	>100
22	Bobbie	187	↓2	>100
23	Alice	186	↓2	29
24	Frances	186	↓6	23
25	Mildred	185	↓3	52
26	Patricia	179	↓1	3
27	Joyce	171	↑8	11
28	Virginia	163	↑2	22
29	Jessie	159	↑3	>100
30	Louise	156	↓7	59
31	Ruth	152	↑8	21
32	Clara	146	↑1	98
33	Ella	144	↑12	>100
34	Edna	143	↓3	82
35	Minnie	142	↓7	>100
36	Nancy	132	↓7	7
37	Johnnie	130	↑11	>100
38	Bernice	124	↓1	>100
39	Catherine	121	new	48
40	Bessie	119	↓13	>100
41	Lula	119	↓5	>100
42	Evelyn	118	new	38
43	Bertha	117	↓3	>100
44	Juanita	115	↑2	80
45	Thelma	115	↓7	86
46	Mae	111	new	>100
47	Bonnie	109	new	65
48	Hattie	106	↓4	>100
49	Marie	104	↓7	37
50	Margie	102	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	James	1,720	–	2
2	Robert	996	↑1	1
3	John	947	↓1	3
4	Willie	879	–	34
5	Charles	771	↑1	6
6	William	752	↓1	4
7	Billy	438	↑1	24
8	George	393	↑1	11
9	Joe	393	↓2	28
10	Thomas	354	↑1	9
11	Bobby	351	↓1	27
12	Henry	268	–	30
13	Jimmy	259	↑2	45
14	Walter	253	↑2	26
15	David	242	↑2	8
16	Jerry	229	↑4	17
17	Edward	223	↑2	13
18	Eddie	218	↓5	79
19	Jimmie	216	↓5	76
20	Richard	198	↑1	5
21	Charlie	185	↑2	>100
22	Joseph	185	↓4	12
23	Frank	168	↓1	18
24	Albert	166	↑1	37
25	Johnnie	154	↓1	>100
26	Lee	151	↑5	80
27	Leroy	147	↑13	61
28	Donald	146	–	7
29	Paul	144	↑4	15
30	Johnny	140	↓3	63
31	Fred	139	↑3	38
32	Roosevelt	135	↑5	>100
33	Arthur	130	↑5	32
34	Louis	127	↑2	47
35	Harold	124	↓6	23
36	Samuel	122	↑12	62
37	Roy	121	↓5	41
38	Kenneth	120	↑1	14
39	Clarence	119	↓4	58
40	Jessie	119	↓14	>100
41	Tommy	119	new	77
42	Curtis	116	↑8	>100
43	Eugene	108	↓13	33
44	Earl	106	–	50
45	Larry	103	↑2	16
46	Howard	101	↓4	42
47	Tommie	96	↓4	>100
48	Carl	92	↓3	29
49	Raymond	89	new	20
50	Jack	88	↓9	25

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