Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1944

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1944 were Mary for girls (1,545 babies) and James for boys (1,915). Social Security records list 47,750 babies born in Mississippi in 1944 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1944

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: 28 babies, 25.8× the national rate
Myrtis: 18 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Earnestine: 101 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Pearlie: 64 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Lue: 16 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Rosie: 194 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Corine: 22 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Charlie: 21 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Willie: 292 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Essie: 62 babies, 8.3× the national rate

Boys

Otha: 17 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Tommie: 103 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Mose: 16 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Percy: 63 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roosevelt: 97 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Sammie: 72 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Jessie: 162 babies, 9× the national rate
Johnie: 32 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Willie: 1,004 babies, 8× the national rate
Major: 18 babies, 8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	1,545	–	1
2	Betty	678	↑1	10
3	Dorothy	626	↓1	19
4	Barbara	578	–	2
5	Linda	544	–	3
6	Annie	485	–	71
7	Patricia	390	↑2	4
8	Shirley	387	–	15
9	Martha	346	↓2	29
10	Carolyn	310	–	11
11	Willie	292	–	>100
12	Sandra	255	↑5	6
13	Margaret	248	↑1	14
14	Ruby	225	↓2	87
15	Gloria	221	↑6	25
16	Sarah	213	↑4	67
17	Doris	210	↓4	42
18	Nancy	208	↑4	7
19	Bobbie	207	↓4	>100
20	Helen	205	↓4	31
21	Emma	198	↑5	>100
22	Lillie	196	↑3	>100
23	Peggy	196	–	45
24	Rosie	194	↓5	>100
25	Alice	187	↑2	38
26	Elizabeth	170	↓8	23
27	Brenda	164	↑4	30
28	Joyce	164	↑1	18
29	Minnie	157	↑1	>100
30	Judy	151	↑18	12
31	Mildred	150	↑4	81
32	Ethel	147	↑2	>100
33	Virginia	147	↓5	26
34	Patsy	146	↓1	72
35	Mattie	143	↓3	>100
36	Frances	141	↓12	33
37	Johnnie	140	↑2	>100
38	Clara	137	↑5	>100
39	Ella	131	new	>100
40	Bessie	130	↓3	>100
41	Edna	129	↓5	>100
42	Ruth	128	↑3	32
43	Bertha	125	↓2	>100
44	Louise	125	↑5	69
45	Carol	123	↓3	5
46	Evelyn	122	new	57
47	Jessie	119	↓1	>100
48	Bonnie	114	↓10	34
49	Catherine	110	new	49
50	Ann	108	new	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	James	1,915	–	1
2	Robert	1,148	–	2
3	John	1,087	–	3
4	Willie	1,004	–	31
5	William	848	↑1	4
6	Charles	823	↓1	7
7	George	470	–	14
8	Thomas	398	–	8
9	Jerry	376	↑2	19
10	Billy	351	↓1	38
11	David	334	↓1	6
12	Joe	333	–	33
13	Jimmy	317	↑1	41
14	Henry	312	↓1	35
15	Richard	280	↑1	5
16	Larry	270	↑2	12
17	Johnny	269	↑5	45
18	Walter	268	↑1	26
19	Eddie	263	↓2	79
20	Bobby	256	↓5	50
21	Edward	214	–	18
22	Joseph	213	↓2	13
23	Albert	193	↑5	44
24	Jimmie	193	↓1	98
25	Frank	191	↓1	21
26	Donald	176	–	11
27	Roy	176	↑2	39
28	Johnnie	174	↓1	>100
29	Charlie	169	↓4	>100
30	Kenneth	165	↑1	16
31	Jessie	162	↑2	>100
32	Lee	151	–	85
33	Tommy	151	↑2	70
34	Paul	150	↓4	17
35	Curtis	139	↑7	97
36	Leroy	135	↓2	78
37	Arthur	129	↑6	29
38	Clarence	128	↑1	74
39	Louis	125	↑7	54
40	Samuel	118	↓3	62
41	Fred	116	↓5	47
42	Michael	114	new	9
43	Ronald	114	new	10
44	Andrew	108	new	81
45	Ernest	104	↑5	59
46	Eugene	104	↓6	48
47	Harold	104	↓3	27
48	Tommie	103	↑1	>100
49	Gary	102	new	15
50	Roger	98	new	23

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