Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1941

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1941 were Mary for girls (1,631 babies) and James for boys (1,879). Social Security records list 45,201 babies born in Mississippi in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1941

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

Girls

Kattie: 23 babies, 24.6× the national rate
Earlean: 39 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Myrtis: 19 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Lovie: 15 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Earnestine: 86 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Jamie: 17 babies, 11× the national rate
Ouida: 15 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Rosie: 223 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Bobbye: 16 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Lue: 21 babies, 9.6× the national rate

Boys

Rosevelt: 16 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Wardell: 15 babies, 13× the national rate
Percy: 75 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Arther: 16 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Roosevelt: 131 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Tommie: 113 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Otha: 17 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Sammie: 65 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Will: 40 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Jessie: 176 babies, 9.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Mary	1,631	–	1
2	Betty	634	–	7
3	Dorothy	621	–	14
4	Annie	509	–	59
5	Barbara	494	–	2
6	Shirley	392	–	10
7	Martha	376	–	25
8	Linda	312	↑3	5
9	Patricia	294	↑3	3
10	Willie	280	↓2	>100
11	Carolyn	239	↑5	11
12	Helen	233	↑1	24
13	Margaret	226	↑5	12
14	Rosie	223	↑1	>100
15	Doris	221	↓1	38
16	Elizabeth	218	↑4	21
17	Gloria	217	↑2	26
18	Peggy	216	↓8	39
19	Ruby	215	↓10	69
20	Bobbie	204	↑7	>100
21	Emma	198	↓4	99
22	Sarah	189	–	60
23	Lillie	185	↓2	>100
24	Alice	180	↓1	34
25	Nancy	176	–	8
26	Mattie	175	↑2	>100
27	Frances	169	↓1	31
28	Virginia	166	↑2	23
29	Joyce	159	–	13
30	Patsy	153	↑8	52
31	Minnie	152	↑3	>100
32	Ethel	143	↑1	>100
33	Edna	140	↑6	89
34	Bertha	139	↑3	>100
35	Brenda	138	new	41
36	Jessie	135	↑6	>100
37	Sandra	135	new	9
38	Louise	129	↓2	62
39	Ruth	126	↓8	28
40	Johnnie	124	new	>100
41	Mildred	122	↓17	64
42	Mae	121	new	>100
43	Bessie	115	↓2	>100
44	Hattie	114	↑3	>100
45	Evelyn	113	new	50
46	Clara	110	↓14	>100
47	Ann	109	↓1	37
48	Ida	107	↓4	>100
49	Bonnie	106	↓6	33
50	Bernice	105	↓15	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	James	1,879	–	1
2	Robert	1,074	–	2
3	John	973	–	3
4	Willie	893	↑1	36
5	William	868	↑1	4
6	Charles	789	↓2	6
7	George	433	–	13
8	Thomas	410	↑1	8
9	Billy	396	↓1	27
10	Joe	363	↑1	30
11	Jerry	350	↑2	14
12	Bobby	302	↓2	35
13	Henry	296	↓1	28
14	Walter	267	–	26
15	David	263	–	7
16	Jimmy	256	–	45
17	Eddie	245	–	78
18	Edward	223	↑6	17
19	Jimmie	206	–	89
20	Richard	197	↓2	5
21	Larry	194	↑10	11
22	Joseph	189	↓1	12
23	Jessie	176	↑4	>100
24	Charlie	166	↓1	>100
25	Tommy	165	↑14	71
26	Johnny	163	↓4	55
27	Albert	162	↑2	40
28	Paul	159	↓3	18
29	Donald	158	↓1	10
30	Roy	156	↓4	39
31	Frank	155	↓11	21
32	Fred	142	↑4	43
33	Kenneth	142	↑1	15
34	Leroy	136	↑6	67
35	Roosevelt	131	–	>100
36	Lee	125	↑1	81
37	Johnnie	123	↓7	>100
38	Eugene	122	↓5	42
39	Arthur	114	↓7	33
40	Tommie	113	↑8	>100
41	Howard	112	↑6	47
42	Jesse	110	↑2	99
43	Melvin	110	↑2	56
44	Samuel	109	↓3	65
45	Harold	108	↓2	24
46	Carl	106	↑4	29
47	Louis	106	↑2	50
48	Clarence	103	↓2	62
49	Earl	101	↓11	58
50	Curtis	97	↓8	100

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