Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1942

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1942 were Mary for girls (1,651 babies) and James for boys (1,983). Social Security records list 48,057 babies born in Mississippi in 1942 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1942

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, 21.3× the national rate
Magnolia: 17 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Johnie: 15 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Easter: 17 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Lue: 25 babies, 12× the national rate
Pearlie: 78 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Lessie: 28 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Dessie: 22 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Linnie: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate

Boys

Prentiss: 16 babies, 24.5× the national rate
Wardell: 18 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Otha: 23 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Percy: 87 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Booker: 34 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Tommie: 124 babies, 12× the national rate
Will: 44 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Arther: 16 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Sammie: 78 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 106 babies, 10.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1942

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Mary	1,651	–	1
2	Betty	697	–	9
3	Dorothy	683	–	17
4	Barbara	570	↑1	2
5	Annie	512	↓1	62
6	Shirley	401	–	12
7	Martha	370	–	29
8	Linda	347	–	4
9	Patricia	328	–	3
10	Willie	315	–	>100
11	Carolyn	312	–	10
12	Ruby	260	↑7	77
13	Peggy	247	↑5	42
14	Sarah	241	↑8	67
15	Gloria	233	↑2	31
16	Margaret	233	↓3	14
17	Helen	229	↓5	26
18	Doris	228	↓3	41
19	Rosie	211	↓5	>100
20	Bobbie	202	–	>100
21	Alice	193	↑3	39
22	Emma	193	↓1	>100
23	Sandra	191	↑14	6
24	Elizabeth	189	↓8	22
25	Joyce	180	↑4	13
26	Mattie	176	–	>100
27	Lillie	173	↓4	>100
28	Nancy	173	↓3	8
29	Frances	172	↓2	30
30	Minnie	166	↑1	>100
31	Virginia	162	↓3	23
32	Mildred	150	↑9	71
33	Bessie	148	↑10	>100
34	Clara	145	↑12	>100
35	Jessie	144	↑1	>100
36	Ethel	140	↓4	>100
37	Ella	135	new	>100
38	Johnnie	134	↑2	>100
39	Ruth	134	–	33
40	Patsy	133	↓10	57
41	Louise	127	↓3	61
42	Edna	125	↓9	99
43	Brenda	124	↓8	40
44	Georgia	119	new	>100
45	Bertha	118	↓11	>100
46	Bernice	116	↑4	>100
47	Carol	110	new	5
48	Marie	110	new	43
49	Thelma	110	new	>100
50	Juanita	109	new	90

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	James	1,983	–	1
2	Robert	1,137	–	2
3	John	1,011	–	3
4	Willie	966	–	37
5	Charles	840	↑1	7
6	William	832	↓1	4
7	George	484	–	14
8	Joe	381	↑2	33
9	Thomas	367	↓1	8
10	Billy	366	↓1	35
11	Henry	334	↑2	31
12	David	333	↑3	6
13	Bobby	323	↓1	43
14	Jerry	319	↓3	16
15	Jimmy	285	↑1	47
16	Richard	250	↑4	5
17	Larry	236	↑4	12
18	Walter	236	↓4	26
19	Johnny	231	↑7	55
20	Eddie	223	↓3	86
21	Edward	207	↓3	17
22	Joseph	201	–	11
23	Frank	200	↑8	21
24	Jimmie	196	↓5	94
25	Roy	190	↑5	42
26	Albert	168	↑1	40
27	Charlie	168	↓3	>100
28	Douglas	168	new	23
29	Johnnie	166	↑8	>100
30	Jessie	158	↓7	>100
31	Paul	157	↓3	19
32	Lee	152	↑4	87
33	Donald	151	↓4	10
34	Kenneth	146	↓1	15
35	Tommy	143	↓10	73
36	Leroy	140	↓2	69
37	Samuel	138	↑7	59
38	Eugene	134	–	45
39	Clarence	130	↑9	67
40	Fred	126	↓8	46
41	Arthur	125	↓2	29
42	Tommie	124	↓2	>100
43	Curtis	121	↑7	98
44	Louis	117	↑3	51
45	Jesse	113	↓3	100
46	Harold	112	↓1	27
47	Roosevelt	106	↓12	>100
48	Gerald	102	new	22
49	Earl	98	–	62
50	Howard	95	↓9	49

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