Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1954

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1954 were Mary for girls (1,377 babies) and James for boys (1,782). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 57,554 babies born in Mississippi in 1954 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1954

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: 18 babies, 31× the national rate
Ora: 55 babies, 16× the national rate
Earnestine: 62 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Odessa: 24 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Ruthie: 63 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Pearlie: 40 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Dorthy: 37 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Bettye: 52 babies, 13× the national rate
Joe: 40 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Rosie: 193 babies, 12.4× the national rate

Boys

Ezell: 18 babies, 25.5× the national rate
Sammie: 86 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Otha: 20 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Percy: 68 babies, 13× the national rate
Ollie: 25 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Tommie: 88 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Will: 32 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Jessie: 151 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Rogers: 18 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Willie: 929 babies, 9.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1954

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1953	US rank
1	Mary	1,377	–	1
2	Linda	856	–	2
3	Deborah	665	–	3
4	Patricia	611	–	4
5	Shirley	546	↑2	33
6	Dorothy	537	–	55
7	Barbara	535	↓2	7
8	Betty	501	–	36
9	Brenda	476	–	18
10	Gloria	396	↑2	42
11	Debra	381	↑4	6
12	Carolyn	359	↓2	27
13	Sandra	357	↑1	13
14	Annie	355	↓3	>100
15	Martha	319	↓2	46
16	Pamela	271	↑3	12
17	Joyce	258	↑1	28
18	Susan	248	↑9	5
19	Judy	247	↓3	29
20	Donna	242	↑1	11
21	Elizabeth	241	↓4	20
22	Cynthia	232	↑2	10
23	Beverly	229	↑8	31
24	Rebecca	221	↑11	26
25	Nancy	220	↓2	9
26	Margaret	217	↓4	21
27	Kathy	209	↑1	23
28	Janice	202	↓8	25
29	Wanda	201	↑3	58
30	Doris	198	↓5	93
31	Bobbie	197	↓1	>100
32	Ruby	196	↓6	>100
33	Willie	196	↑3	>100
34	Rosie	193	↓5	>100
35	Helen	192	↑7	72
36	Marilyn	188	↑1	35
37	Jo	185	↑8	53
38	Peggy	181	↓4	48
39	Sharon	181	↓6	16
40	Diane	173	↑1	17
41	Virginia	172	↓1	61
42	Sarah	152	↓4	>100
43	Janet	151	↑3	19
44	Alice	146	↓5	81
45	Karen	144	↓2	8
46	Rose	142	↓2	54
47	Sherry	142	new	62
48	Emma	140	–	>100
49	Glenda	136	new	>100
50	Catherine	133	↓3	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1953	US rank
1	James	1,782	–	3
2	Robert	1,259	–	2
3	John	1,014	–	4
4	Charles	969	↑1	10
5	Willie	929	↓1	53
6	William	837	–	6
7	Larry	739	–	19
8	David	689	–	5
9	Michael	648	–	1
10	Jerry	485	↑1	31
11	Thomas	415	↓1	8
12	Richard	411	↑1	7
13	George	378	↓1	24
14	Johnny	363	–	54
15	Billy	351	↑1	65
16	Donald	322	↑1	14
17	Henry	313	↓2	59
18	Kenneth	310	↑6	17
19	Eddie	298	↓1	91
20	Bobby	295	↑2	72
21	Gary	282	↑5	9
22	Joseph	262	↓1	13
23	Edward	261	↑2	22
24	Jimmy	260	↓1	74
25	Joe	254	↓6	67
26	Ronald	252	↑1	15
27	Terry	233	↑4	27
28	Danny	227	–	42
29	Tommy	216	–	100
30	Walter	216	↓10	49
31	Roy	196	↑6	56
32	Paul	191	↓2	16
33	Curtis	188	↑11	84
34	Jimmie	173	↑6	>100
35	Melvin	172	↓2	92
36	Frank	170	↓4	36
37	Dennis	162	↓3	21
38	Jessie	151	↑1	>100
39	Arthur	150	↑10	52
40	Lee	149	↓5	96
41	Albert	146	↑1	73
42	Carl	143	↓4	47
43	Roger	140	↓2	34
44	Randy	135	new	33
45	Steven	133	↑3	11
46	Ricky	129	new	46
47	Eugene	128	new	77
48	Ronnie	128	↓2	78
49	Gregory	127	new	25
50	Mark	127	new	12

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