Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,623
2	Annie	628
3	Dorothy	564
4	Willie	400
5	Betty	323
6	Ruby	293
7	Helen	280
8	Lillie	267
9	Mildred	260
10	Louise	255
11	Mattie	245
12	Doris	237
13	Ruth	234
14	Martha	225
15	Rosie	211
16	Frances	208
17	Margaret	201
18	Jessie	183
19	Elizabeth	182
20	Sarah	176
21	Emma	171
22	Bernice	167
23	Virginia	164
24	Bessie	161
24	Clara	161
26	Ethel	156
27	Minnie	154
28	Bertha	150
28	Evelyn	150
30	Hattie	144
31	Alice	143
31	Lula	143
33	Hazel	142
34	Marie	141
35	Ida	139
36	Bobbie	136
36	Thelma	136
38	Ella	132
38	Lucille	132
40	Edna	129
41	Gladys	127
42	Catherine	121
43	Juanita	118
44	Carrie	114
44	Mae	114
46	Beatrice	108
47	Joyce	105
48	Fannie	104
48	Johnnie	104
50	Georgia	100

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,594
2	John	914
3	Willie	830
4	William	820
5	Robert	771
6	Charles	571
7	George	424
8	Henry	328
9	Thomas	321
10	Joe	277
11	Billy	225
12	Walter	223
13	Edward	211
14	Frank	203
15	Charlie	192
16	David	175
17	Eddie	169
18	Jessie	165
18	Joseph	165
20	Albert	161
21	Johnnie	159
22	Jimmie	148
23	Richard	147
24	Clarence	143
25	Fred	139
26	Jack	138
27	Louis	129
28	Herbert	128
29	Leroy	122
30	Roy	119
31	Bobby	115
32	Eugene	114
33	Earl	113
33	Lee	113
35	Curtis	110
36	Harold	103
37	Sam	102
38	Paul	98
39	Arthur	97
39	Howard	97
41	Andrew	95
42	Roosevelt	92
43	Ernest	91
43	Floyd	91
45	Samuel	90
46	Carl	88
47	Luther	85
48	Herman	82
48	Percy	82
50	Earnest	77