Popular baby names in Mississippi, 1975

The most popular baby names in Mississippi in 1975 were Jennifer for girls (593 babies) and Michael for boys (782). Social Security records list 33,811 babies born in Mississippi in 1975 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Mississippi in 1975

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

Girls

Willie: 16 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Shelia: 57 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Shawanda: 15 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Catina: 16 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Felecia: 19 babies, 7× the national rate
Chiquita: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Demetria: 23 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Lashanda: 15 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Latonya: 71 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Vickie: 32 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Boys

Rodrick: 25 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Kendrick: 35 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Cedric: 81 babies, 8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 18 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Fredrick: 56 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Dexter: 23 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Tommie: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Earnest: 21 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Willie: 151 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Kelvin: 50 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Mississippi, 1975

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1974	US rank
1	Jennifer	593	–	1
2	Angela	421	–	5
3	Kimberly	326	–	7
4	Amy	310	↑1	2
5	Stephanie	265	↓1	9
6	Amanda	257	↑4	14
7	Melissa	253	↓1	4
8	Mary	237	↓1	19
9	Heather	190	↑2	3
10	Lisa	161	↓1	8
11	Pamela	145	↑7	70
12	Tonya	141	↓4	45
13	Tracy	139	↓1	24
14	Sharon	133	↑1	75
15	Yolanda	123	↑17	>100
16	Christy	121	↑3	53
17	Michelle	116	↓4	6
18	Tiffany	116	↑9	37
19	April	114	↑6	25
20	Rebecca	114	↓6	11
21	Stacy	114	↑17	34
22	Patricia	112	↓2	36
23	Cynthia	111	↓6	40
24	Felicia	111	↑15	>100
25	Tammy	111	↓9	31
26	Wendy	108	↑8	33
27	Elizabeth	107	↓1	15
28	Misty	107	new	47
29	Monica	101	↓8	49
30	Tanya	98	↓2	50
31	Tina	98	↓7	35
32	Julie	91	↑4	18
33	Karen	91	↑4	27
34	Shannon	90	↓12	21
35	Leslie	88	↑13	71
36	Christina	87	↑8	12
37	Teresa	87	↓14	61
38	Brandy	86	new	57
39	Susan	85	↓4	32
40	Rachel	83	new	26
41	Rhonda	83	↑2	93
42	Dana	81	↓1	62
43	Laura	81	↓1	20
44	Sandra	80	↓13	51
45	Linda	77	↓16	81
46	Barbara	76	↑4	83
47	Andrea	74	new	28
48	Emily	72	new	48
49	Carrie	71	new	29
50	Latonya	71	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1974	US rank
1	Michael	782	–	1
2	James	741	–	4
3	Christopher	719	–	3
4	Robert	498	↑2	6
5	Jason	496	↑3	2
6	John	487	↓2	7
7	William	484	–	10
8	David	362	↓3	5
9	Charles	339	–	25
10	Anthony	264	↑1	21
11	Joseph	251	↑3	12
12	Timothy	251	↓2	22
13	Kevin	229	↓1	15
14	Brian	204	↑1	8
15	Steven	200	↑3	18
16	Thomas	199	↑1	20
17	Eric	187	↓4	13
18	Marcus	187	↑3	68
19	Richard	185	↓3	16
20	Daniel	173	–	11
21	Kenneth	161	↓2	35
22	Jeremy	154	↑12	24
23	Willie	151	↑3	>100
24	Jeffrey	140	–	14
25	Larry	140	↓2	56
26	Gregory	139	↓4	33
27	Jonathan	139	↑1	30
28	Matthew	138	↓1	9
29	Jerry	129	↓4	65
30	Stephen	123	↓1	34
31	Patrick	122	–	39
32	Terry	122	↓2	67
33	Tony	119	↑6	80
34	Derrick	117	↑2	90
35	Mark	117	↓2	19
36	Johnny	114	↑6	86
37	George	111	↓2	53
38	Benjamin	106	new	36
39	Paul	101	↑4	29
40	Donald	98	↑6	42
41	Rodney	98	↓4	76
42	Gary	96	↑2	50
43	Bobby	92	↓3	93
44	Jimmy	91	↓3	>100
45	Ronald	90	↑4	46
46	Joshua	89	↓1	26
47	Antonio	88	new	77
48	Bradley	88	new	52
49	Jeffery	88	↓11	70
50	Edward	87	↓2	41

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