Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1955

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1955 were Mary for girls (1,310 babies) and James for boys (1,743). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,404 babies born in Mississippi in 1955 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1955

Names given at least 15 times in Mississippi that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Kattie: 20 babies, 33.9× the national rate
Earlean: 15 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Pearlie: 40 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Earnestine: 64 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Willie: 180 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Rosie: 190 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Ora: 42 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Bettye: 47 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Bobby: 21 babies, 13× the national rate
Lessie: 18 babies, 12.3× the national rate

Boys

Otha: 27 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Jame: 15 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Sammie: 71 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Roosevelt: 105 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Percy: 49 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Tommie: 79 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Jessie: 135 babies, 10× the national rate
Earnest: 96 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Booker: 17 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Will: 21 babies, 9.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1955

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1954	US rank
1	Mary	1,310	–	1
2	Linda	845	–	3
3	Deborah	612	–	2
4	Patricia	597	–	6
5	Barbara	530	↑2	7
6	Brenda	517	↑3	18
7	Shirley	505	↓2	37
8	Betty	454	–	36
9	Dorothy	452	↓3	64
10	Debra	439	↑1	4
11	Carolyn	364	↑1	30
12	Sandra	352	↑1	13
13	Annie	344	↑1	>100
14	Gloria	314	↓4	47
15	Joyce	272	↑2	29
16	Susan	270	↑2	5
17	Cynthia	265	↑5	11
18	Donna	250	↑2	10
19	Martha	250	↓4	53
20	Janice	243	↑8	25
21	Pamela	240	↓5	12
22	Kathy	218	↑5	22
23	Judy	217	↓4	32
24	Margaret	217	↑2	24
25	Rebecca	216	↓1	27
26	Elizabeth	208	↓5	21
27	Marilyn	207	↑9	49
28	Nancy	203	↓3	9
29	Wanda	200	–	61
30	Doris	198	–	>100
31	Diane	195	↑9	14
32	Beverly	192	↓9	34
33	Rosie	190	↑1	>100
34	Sharon	184	↑5	16
35	Ruby	183	↓3	>100
36	Karen	180	↑9	8
37	Willie	180	↓4	>100
38	Sherry	177	↑9	56
39	Alice	161	↑5	87
40	Peggy	158	↓2	51
41	Teresa	157	new	26
42	Jo	156	↓5	58
43	Rose	155	↑3	54
44	Janet	151	↓1	20
45	Catherine	146	↑5	28
46	Sarah	146	↓4	>100
47	Bobbie	143	↓16	>100
48	Cathy	140	new	44
49	Glenda	139	–	>100
50	Gwendolyn	139	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1954	US rank
1	James	1,743	–	3
2	Robert	1,143	–	4
3	John	981	–	5
4	Charles	881	–	11
5	Willie	876	–	54
6	William	826	–	6
7	Larry	796	–	19
8	David	781	–	2
9	Michael	615	–	1
10	Jerry	432	–	33
11	George	413	↑2	26
12	Richard	400	–	7
13	Thomas	375	↓2	8
14	Johnny	350	–	55
15	Kenneth	323	↑3	15
16	Billy	314	↓1	69
17	Eddie	298	↑2	92
18	Donald	294	↓2	14
19	Henry	275	↓2	61
20	Terry	274	↑7	28
21	Joseph	263	↑1	13
22	Joe	255	↑3	68
23	Bobby	250	↓3	75
24	Gary	238	↓3	12
25	Jimmy	238	↓1	78
26	Edward	236	↓3	25
27	Paul	233	↑5	16
28	Walter	231	↑2	51
29	Danny	229	↓1	45
30	Ronald	213	↓4	18
31	Randy	188	↑13	30
32	Roy	182	↓1	58
33	Melvin	181	↑2	95
34	Dennis	175	↑3	23
35	Carl	171	↑7	47
36	Curtis	167	↓3	79
37	Frank	164	↓1	34
38	Ricky	163	↑8	46
39	Tommy	160	↓10	>100
40	Mark	159	↑10	9
41	Arthur	157	↓2	56
42	Lee	152	↓2	96
43	Albert	142	↓2	76
44	Stanley	141	new	64
45	Calvin	140	new	>100
46	Daniel	140	new	17
47	Jimmie	136	↓13	>100
48	Jessie	135	↓10	>100
49	Ronnie	134	↓1	80
50	Steven	134	↓5	10

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