Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,348
2	Annie	555
3	Willie	422
4	Ruby	287
5	Ruth	242
6	Mildred	237
7	Frances	224
8	Mattie	219
9	Louise	210
10	Lillie	205
11	Dorothy	204
11	Ethel	204
13	Elizabeth	198
14	Bessie	191
15	Margaret	190
15	Rosie	190
17	Helen	183
18	Lucille	181
19	Emma	177
19	Minnie	177
21	Alice	176
22	Jessie	170
23	Martha	168
24	Gladys	161
25	Clara	158
25	Edna	158
27	Sarah	154
28	Thelma	152
29	Ida	151
30	Hazel	149
31	Hattie	148
32	Lillian	147
33	Lula	145
34	Beatrice	143
34	Marie	143
36	Carrie	133
37	Evelyn	128
38	Fannie	122
39	Irene	121
40	Mamie	118
41	Myrtle	116
41	Virginia	116
43	Ella	114
44	Maggie	113
45	Katie	111
45	Laura	111
47	Grace	101
48	Alma	98
49	Bertha	95
50	Velma	94

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,379
2	John	914
3	William	783
4	Willie	748
5	Robert	722
6	George	434
7	Charles	355
8	Henry	350
9	Joe	274
9	Thomas	274
11	Walter	267
12	Joseph	223
13	Charlie	205
14	Edward	193
15	Frank	178
16	Albert	174
17	Woodrow	170
18	Eddie	159
19	Jessie	154
20	Fred	146
20	Johnnie	146
22	Jack	136
23	Louis	132
24	David	129
25	Arthur	125
26	Leroy	124
27	Clarence	122
28	Richard	120
29	Lee	119
30	Sam	112
31	Roy	111
32	Samuel	108
33	Eugene	105
34	Andrew	103
35	Earl	99
36	Ernest	93
37	Jimmie	92
38	Howard	91
39	Curtis	87
40	Herman	85
41	Paul	81
42	Luther	78
43	Clyde	75
44	Herbert	73
45	Percy	72
46	Claude	70
47	Jesse	69
47	Johnie	69
49	Earnest	68
49	Wilson	68