Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1968

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1968 were Angela for girls (471 babies) and James for boys (991). Angela ranked #7 nationally for girls. James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 38,189 babies born in Mississippi in 1968 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1968

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

Girls

Patrici: 16 babies, 80.8× the national rate
Joe: 15 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Willie: 32 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Rosie: 37 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Mattie: 18 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Annie: 61 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Velma: 20 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Johnnie: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Lillie: 18 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Ethel: 23 babies, 7.4× the national rate

Boys

Sammie: 22 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Percy: 23 babies, 11× the national rate
Tommie: 30 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Willie: 316 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 30 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Will: 19 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Dexter: 65 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Sylvester: 21 babies, 7× the national rate
Earnest: 31 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Archie: 24 babies, 6.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1968

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1967	US rank
1	Angela	471	↑2	7
2	Lisa	444	–	1
3	Mary	423	↓2	6
4	Tammy	343	↑9	8
5	Melissa	321	–	5
6	Kimberly	296	↑2	3
7	Patricia	268	↓3	15
8	Pamela	253	↓1	20
9	Sharon	242	↑2	32
10	Linda	240	↓4	28
11	Sandra	235	↓1	26
12	Brenda	230	–	34
13	Stephanie	221	↑2	23
14	Cynthia	219	↓5	19
15	Jennifer	210	↑6	4
16	Donna	181	–	24
17	Carolyn	176	–	61
18	Michelle	176	↑11	2
19	Tina	174	–	18
20	Teresa	167	↓6	30
21	Barbara	166	↓3	36
22	Susan	159	↑2	10
23	Karen	156	↓1	9
24	Debra	154	↓1	38
25	Jacqueline	154	↑2	50
26	Amy	152	↑7	13
27	Tracy	152	↑4	25
28	Shirley	147	↓2	>100
29	Elizabeth	133	↓1	17
30	Rhonda	131	↓10	42
31	Deborah	128	↓6	27
32	Laura	123	↑6	11
33	Sherry	117	↓3	52
34	Regina	116	new	81
35	Yolanda	111	new	93
36	Sheila	109	↑7	59
37	Paula	108	↑4	45
38	Wanda	107	↑2	>100
39	Rebecca	103	↓7	33
40	Betty	102	↓6	>100
41	Shelia	102	↓4	>100
42	Cassandra	101	new	>100
43	Janice	98	↓4	>100
44	Tonya	95	new	60
45	Dorothy	90	↓9	>100
46	Joyce	89	↑1	>100
47	Carol	86	↓2	49
48	Connie	85	↓2	87
49	Nancy	82	new	39
50	Wendy	82	new	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1967	US rank
1	James	991	–	4
2	Michael	790	–	1
3	Robert	655	–	5
4	John	653	–	3
5	David	527	–	2
6	William	504	–	6
7	Charles	426	–	20
8	Anthony	318	↑3	21
9	Willie	316	↑1	96
10	Richard	315	↓1	8
11	Timothy	305	↓3	13
12	Christopher	289	↑1	9
13	Kenneth	283	↓1	23
14	Thomas	275	–	12
15	Mark	252	–	7
16	Joseph	217	↑5	16
17	Jerry	207	–	44
18	Jeffrey	205	↑9	11
19	Gregory	199	↑1	26
20	Larry	196	↓1	38
21	Terry	195	↓5	48
22	Steven	191	–	15
23	Tony	180	↑7	52
24	Kevin	172	↑7	17
25	Jimmy	171	↑3	77
26	Ronald	162	↑3	25
27	Bobby	160	↓1	81
28	Donald	160	↓10	29
29	Johnny	156	↑4	69
30	Stephen	156	↑5	27
31	Paul	155	↓6	19
32	Patrick	154	↓9	30
33	Jeffery	140	↓1	46
34	Edward	137	↑7	31
35	Billy	136	↓11	76
36	George	131	↓2	36
37	Rodney	131	↑5	42
38	Eric	121	↑5	22
39	Brian	120	↓1	10
40	Curtis	120	↑6	75
41	Ricky	120	↑7	70
42	Randy	118	↓2	54
43	Daniel	116	↑6	18
44	Gary	115	↓8	32
45	Keith	104	↓8	35
46	Henry	103	↑1	95
47	Eddie	102	↓3	>100
48	Darrell	100	new	86
49	Dennis	99	↓10	45
50	Scott	98	new	14

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