Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1945

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1945 were Mary for girls (1,500 babies) and James for boys (1,907). Social Security records list 46,149 babies born in Mississippi in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1945

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: 24 babies, 24× the national rate
Kattie: 20 babies, 19× the national rate
Myrtis: 23 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Lovie: 15 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Rosie: 229 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Dessie: 17 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Earnestine: 79 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Lue: 17 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Pearlie: 56 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Dorthy: 53 babies, 9.9× the national rate

Boys

Mcarthur: 25 babies, 13× the national rate
Otha: 23 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Mose: 19 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Isiah: 18 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Booker: 27 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Percy: 67 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Tommie: 109 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Sammie: 74 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Will: 32 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Roosevelt: 88 babies, 9.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Mary	1,500	–	1
2	Betty	625	–	11
3	Dorothy	608	–	21
4	Barbara	568	–	3
5	Linda	542	–	2
6	Annie	464	–	69
7	Shirley	437	↑1	14
8	Patricia	366	↓1	4
9	Carolyn	318	↑1	12
10	Martha	309	↓1	30
11	Gloria	273	↑4	23
12	Willie	263	↓1	>100
13	Sandra	260	↓1	6
14	Ruby	230	–	95
15	Rosie	229	↑9	>100
16	Margaret	226	↓3	15
17	Bobbie	224	↑2	>100
18	Brenda	218	↑9	29
19	Helen	214	↑1	31
20	Elizabeth	209	↑6	26
21	Doris	204	↓4	46
22	Sarah	194	↓6	76
23	Joyce	188	↑5	18
24	Peggy	173	↓1	45
25	Alice	172	–	41
26	Nancy	172	↓8	7
27	Judy	169	↑3	13
28	Frances	164	↑8	34
29	Lillie	155	↓7	>100
30	Emma	149	↓9	>100
31	Carol	137	↑14	5
32	Ethel	135	–	>100
33	Virginia	134	–	28
34	Jessie	133	↑13	>100
35	Patsy	133	↓1	84
36	Edna	131	↑5	>100
37	Minnie	128	↓8	>100
38	Mattie	126	↓3	>100
39	Bertha	124	↑4	>100
40	Ruth	123	↑2	33
41	Catherine	122	↑8	50
42	Mildred	122	↓11	93
43	Janice	120	new	24
44	Bessie	119	↓4	>100
45	Johnnie	114	↓8	>100
46	Ella	113	↓7	>100
47	Rose	109	new	54
48	Evelyn	107	↓2	57
49	Louise	106	↓5	78
50	Geraldine	105	new	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	James	1,907	–	1
2	Robert	1,106	–	2
3	Willie	973	↑1	31
4	John	921	↓1	3
5	William	809	–	4
6	Charles	807	–	7
7	George	433	–	15
8	Thomas	404	–	8
9	Jerry	358	–	20
10	Henry	321	↑4	37
11	Johnny	317	↑6	45
12	David	311	↓1	6
13	Jimmy	307	–	41
14	Larry	297	↑2	11
15	Joe	294	↓3	36
16	Billy	285	↓6	42
17	Richard	275	↓2	5
18	Bobby	256	↑2	53
19	Eddie	249	–	81
20	Walter	233	↓2	27
21	Joseph	222	↑1	14
22	Edward	220	↓1	18
23	Jimmie	206	↑1	>100
24	Frank	191	↑1	21
25	Roy	178	↑2	40
26	Donald	168	–	12
27	Kenneth	160	↑3	16
28	Lee	160	↑4	87
29	Paul	159	↑5	17
30	Albert	156	↓7	49
31	Johnnie	156	↓3	>100
32	Michael	155	↑10	9
33	Charlie	145	↓4	>100
34	Tommy	144	↓1	75
35	Jessie	137	↓4	>100
36	Arthur	136	↑1	34
37	Ronald	125	↑6	10
38	Eugene	122	↑8	50
39	Louis	122	–	55
40	Samuel	116	–	62
41	Curtis	113	↓6	97
42	Harold	113	↑5	28
43	Clarence	112	↓5	82
44	Howard	111	new	54
45	Leroy	110	↓9	83
46	Tommie	109	↑2	>100
47	Ernest	108	↓2	60
48	Fred	108	↓7	51
49	Gary	107	–	13
50	Jesse	104	new	>100

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