Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,841
2	Annie	662
3	Dorothy	605
4	Willie	454
5	Ruby	365
6	Mildred	323
7	Helen	295
8	Louise	290
9	Lillie	282
10	Ruth	263
11	Martha	248
12	Frances	243
13	Rosie	238
14	Mattie	232
15	Betty	225
16	Bessie	221
17	Doris	220
18	Ethel	219
19	Margaret	215
20	Jessie	214
21	Emma	206
22	Elizabeth	199
23	Edna	195
24	Sarah	192
25	Minnie	190
26	Alice	188
27	Virginia	184
28	Marie	177
29	Gladys	172
30	Clara	167
31	Evelyn	164
31	Hazel	164
33	Lucille	153
33	Lula	153
35	Christine	152
36	Bernice	150
37	Thelma	149
38	Carrie	140
39	Juanita	139
40	Ida	134
41	Ella	131
41	Hattie	131
43	Beatrice	129
44	Fannie	126
45	Bertha	125
45	Lillian	125
47	Maggie	123
48	Catherine	121
49	Laura	119
50	Johnnie	114

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,793
2	John	970
3	Robert	932
4	William	889
5	Willie	835
6	Charles	545
7	George	469
8	Henry	345
9	Thomas	316
10	Joe	279
11	Walter	269
12	Frank	247
13	Joseph	232
14	Edward	228
15	Eddie	221
16	Jessie	179
17	Jack	177
18	Charlie	176
19	Albert	174
20	Billy	167
20	David	167
22	Fred	166
23	Richard	165
24	Johnnie	159
25	Samuel	143
26	Clarence	141
27	Howard	140
28	Louis	132
29	Jimmie	128
30	Eugene	127
31	Earl	121
31	Roy	121
33	Curtis	118
34	Leroy	115
34	Sam	115
36	Paul	113
37	Harold	111
37	Lee	111
39	Andrew	108
40	Floyd	103
41	Arthur	101
42	Carl	97
43	Jesse	93
44	Ernest	91
45	Leon	89
45	Percy	89
47	Tommie	88
48	Clyde	87
49	Earnest	83
50	Roosevelt	78