Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1943

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1943 were Mary for girls (1,716 babies) and James for boys (2,073). Social Security records list 49,899 babies born in Mississippi in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1943

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: 32 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Rutha: 18 babies, 20.9× the national rate
Kattie: 21 babies, 20.5× the national rate
Lue: 20 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Ora: 78 babies, 11× the national rate
Rosie: 208 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Ruthie: 67 babies, 10× the national rate
Bobby: 26 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Syble: 16 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Essie: 60 babies, 9.5× the national rate

Boys

Otha: 24 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Mose: 17 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Wardell: 15 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Arther: 16 babies, 13× the national rate
Booker: 36 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Sammie: 83 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Percy: 78 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Roosevelt: 113 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Tommie: 102 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Will: 36 babies, 10.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	1,716	–	1
2	Dorothy	687	↑1	19
3	Betty	685	↓1	10
4	Barbara	653	–	2
5	Linda	515	↑3	4
6	Annie	485	↓1	69
7	Martha	390	–	29
8	Shirley	384	↓2	12
9	Patricia	332	–	3
10	Carolyn	330	↑1	11
11	Willie	296	↓1	>100
12	Ruby	255	–	82
13	Doris	249	↑5	40
14	Margaret	246	↑2	14
15	Bobbie	231	↑5	>100
16	Helen	230	↑1	28
17	Sandra	228	↑6	6
18	Elizabeth	224	↑6	23
19	Rosie	208	–	>100
20	Sarah	207	↓6	71
21	Gloria	204	↓6	30
22	Nancy	196	↑6	9
23	Peggy	190	↓10	41
24	Frances	189	↑5	31
25	Lillie	186	↑2	>100
26	Emma	182	↓4	>100
27	Alice	181	↓6	38
28	Virginia	180	↑3	25
29	Joyce	179	↓4	16
30	Minnie	173	–	>100
31	Brenda	169	↑12	35
32	Mattie	168	↓6	>100
33	Patsy	161	↑7	61
34	Ethel	143	↑2	>100
35	Mildred	141	↓3	76
36	Edna	136	↑6	>100
37	Bessie	133	↓4	>100
38	Bonnie	129	new	34
39	Johnnie	128	↓1	>100
40	Bernice	127	↑6	>100
41	Bertha	126	↑4	>100
42	Carol	125	↑5	5
43	Clara	123	↓9	>100
44	Georgia	123	–	>100
45	Ruth	120	↓6	33
46	Jessie	119	↓11	>100
47	Jo	117	new	63
48	Judy	115	new	13
49	Louise	115	↓8	70
50	Thelma	114	↓1	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	James	2,073	–	1
2	Robert	1,145	–	2
3	John	1,086	–	3
4	Willie	1,005	–	36
5	Charles	933	–	7
6	William	930	–	4
7	George	547	–	14
8	Thomas	414	↑1	8
9	Billy	399	↑1	37
10	David	359	↑2	6
11	Jerry	355	↑3	17
12	Joe	342	↓4	35
13	Henry	340	↓2	31
14	Jimmy	329	↑1	42
15	Bobby	307	↓2	46
16	Richard	267	–	5
17	Eddie	260	↑3	80
18	Larry	255	↓1	12
19	Walter	253	↓1	26
20	Joseph	249	↑2	13
21	Edward	238	–	18
22	Johnny	233	↓3	52
23	Jimmie	213	↑1	95
24	Frank	210	↓1	21
25	Charlie	190	↑2	>100
26	Donald	188	↑7	11
27	Johnnie	185	↑2	>100
28	Albert	181	↓2	43
29	Roy	177	↓4	38
30	Paul	172	↑1	19
31	Kenneth	170	↑3	15
32	Lee	161	–	91
33	Jessie	154	↓3	>100
34	Leroy	149	↑2	74
35	Tommy	145	–	77
36	Fred	143	↑4	45
37	Samuel	136	–	62
38	Douglas	133	↓10	28
39	Clarence	132	–	68
40	Eugene	131	↓2	47
41	Howard	125	↑9	48
42	Curtis	123	↑1	100
43	Arthur	116	↓2	30
44	Harold	114	↑2	27
45	Roosevelt	113	↑2	>100
46	Louis	111	↓2	53
47	Jesse	110	↓2	>100
48	Earl	106	↑1	60
49	Tommie	102	↓7	>100
50	Ernest	100	new	61

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