Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,557
2	Annie	656
3	Willie	432
4	Dorothy	317
5	Ruby	304
6	Lillie	273
7	Mattie	272
8	Mildred	267
9	Ruth	261
10	Helen	252
11	Rosie	242
12	Louise	233
13	Frances	226
14	Margaret	211
15	Marie	200
16	Elizabeth	199
17	Minnie	195
18	Emma	191
19	Bessie	190
20	Martha	187
21	Edna	186
22	Ethel	183
23	Thelma	180
24	Hazel	175
24	Sarah	175
26	Alice	171
27	Jessie	170
28	Beatrice	169
28	Lucille	169
30	Gladys	168
31	Hattie	158
31	Ida	158
33	Lula	148
34	Doris	147
35	Lillian	139
36	Clara	137
37	Eva	135
38	Virginia	133
39	Ella	131
39	Laura	131
41	Evelyn	130
42	Carrie	129
43	Fannie	128
44	Irene	124
45	Myrtle	116
46	Bertha	113
47	Grace	112
48	Juanita	111
49	Georgia	107
50	Maggie	106

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,574
2	John	981
3	William	879
4	Willie	829
5	Robert	799
6	George	481
7	Charles	399
8	Henry	328
9	Thomas	314
10	Joe	265
11	Walter	252
12	Frank	225
13	Albert	204
13	Charlie	204
15	Eddie	202
16	Joseph	195
17	Edward	193
18	Jessie	176
19	Jack	161
20	Johnnie	159
21	Clarence	140
21	David	140
23	Arthur	137
24	Fred	132
25	Samuel	129
26	Earl	128
27	Richard	127
28	Lee	126
29	Sam	122
30	Roy	118
31	Louis	116
31	Paul	116
33	Leroy	114
34	Eugene	113
35	Howard	107
36	Harold	96
36	Jimmie	96
38	Herman	95
39	Jesse	93
40	Curtis	89
40	Ernest	89
42	Johnie	85
43	Cecil	81
44	Earnest	79
45	Andrew	78
46	Tommie	77
47	Clifton	76
47	Clyde	76
49	Leon	74
50	Oscar	72