Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1966

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1966 were Lisa for girls (618 babies) and James for boys (1,140). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 40,867 babies born in Mississippi in 1966 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1966

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

Girls

Essie: 18 babies, 24.8× the national rate
Joe: 16 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Minnie: 26 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Rosie: 53 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Annie: 84 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Willie: 32 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Johnnie: 23 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Mattie: 23 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Bessie: 20 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Lesia: 21 babies, 8.3× the national rate

Boys

Sammie: 41 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Tommie: 35 babies, 10× the national rate
Earnest: 46 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Jessie: 92 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Willie: 356 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Ellis: 20 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Bennie: 36 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Percy: 16 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 21 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Darron: 20 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1966

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1965	US rank
1	Lisa	618	–	1
2	Mary	564	–	3
3	Angela	393	–	9
4	Linda	351	↑1	18
5	Patricia	337	↓1	7
6	Cynthia	325	↑1	11
7	Brenda	315	↓1	25
8	Sandra	302	–	17
9	Tammy	302	–	8
10	Pamela	286	↑1	15
11	Kimberly	268	↑10	2
12	Sharon	252	↓2	28
13	Barbara	244	↑2	27
14	Melissa	232	↑4	22
15	Donna	218	↓2	12
16	Karen	212	↓2	5
17	Teresa	210	↓5	29
18	Deborah	189	↓1	14
19	Carolyn	182	↑1	60
20	Jennifer	182	↑5	10
21	Jacqueline	176	↓5	47
22	Elizabeth	173	↑10	16
23	Debra	171	↓4	35
24	Tina	171	↑3	23
25	Rhonda	150	↓3	39
26	Shirley	149	↓2	>100
27	Janice	142	↑3	80
28	Sherry	139	↓2	53
29	Susan	138	–	6
30	Dorothy	134	↑4	>100
31	Betty	132	↓3	>100
32	Shelia	132	↑1	>100
33	Stephanie	130	↑8	38
34	Wanda	125	↓11	84
35	Michelle	118	new	4
36	Sheila	117	↑1	51
37	Regina	111	↑9	82
38	Gloria	107	↓7	>100
39	Beverly	106	↑3	>100
40	Carol	101	↑7	48
41	Tracy	100	↑7	31
42	Connie	99	↓2	70
43	Rebecca	99	↓5	40
44	Martha	98	new	>100
45	Nancy	98	↑5	33
46	Paula	98	new	50
47	Laura	95	↓2	19
48	Janet	93	↓12	57
49	Kathy	93	new	59
50	Joyce	92	↓15	100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1965	US rank
1	James	1,140	–	3
2	Michael	716	↑2	1
3	John	686	–	4
4	Robert	685	↓2	5
5	David	534	–	2
6	Charles	497	–	20
7	William	488	–	6
8	Willie	356	–	93
9	Kenneth	330	–	21
10	Richard	303	–	8
11	Anthony	288	–	22
12	Timothy	281	–	11
13	Terry	267	↑2	40
14	Jerry	259	–	41
15	Thomas	256	↓2	10
16	Mark	237	↑2	7
17	Gregory	230	–	23
18	Jimmy	212	↑7	77
19	Christopher	209	↑8	12
20	Joseph	206	–	15
21	Larry	201	↓5	38
22	Donald	193	↑2	27
23	Steven	193	↑8	13
24	Jeffrey	183	↑8	9
25	Tony	183	↑1	49
26	George	178	↓3	37
27	Johnny	176	↓8	73
28	Billy	173	↓6	80
29	Edward	170	↑7	30
30	Paul	167	↓2	18
31	Bobby	166	↓10	82
32	Eddie	155	↑6	>100
33	Jeffery	154	↑6	42
34	Rodney	153	↑11	35
35	Ronald	143	↓6	24
36	Patrick	139	↑7	31
37	Ricky	126	↓7	64
38	Gary	123	↓4	28
39	Stephen	122	new	26
40	Keith	121	new	32
41	Dennis	119	↑7	44
42	Kevin	119	↓7	17
43	Daniel	116	↑6	19
44	Henry	116	new	92
45	Randy	116	↓12	45
46	Joe	115	↓6	74
47	Marvin	114	new	>100
48	Curtis	112	↓2	75
49	Ronnie	112	new	>100
50	Danny	110	↓8	62

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