Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1930

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,664
2	Annie	650
3	Dorothy	634
4	Betty	412
5	Willie	341
6	Ruby	299
7	Helen	276
8	Ruth	259
9	Lillie	251
10	Mildred	250
11	Martha	242
12	Louise	231
13	Rosie	227
14	Mattie	218
15	Doris	212
16	Margaret	203
17	Sarah	202
18	Emma	188
18	Frances	188
20	Minnie	183
21	Elizabeth	182
22	Bernice	179
23	Bessie	175
24	Ethel	172
24	Virginia	172
26	Bobbie	156
27	Alice	153
27	Jessie	153
29	Ella	151
30	Clara	148
31	Bertha	146
32	Thelma	145
33	Gladys	143
34	Lula	142
35	Evelyn	141
36	Hattie	140
37	Hazel	138
38	Marie	136
39	Ida	130
40	Edna	129
41	Carrie	120
42	Juanita	119
43	Mae	113
44	Fannie	112
45	Beatrice	111
45	Johnnie	111
45	Joyce	111
48	Catherine	107
49	Billie	105
50	Christine	98

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,737
2	John	923
3	Willie	913
4	Robert	901
5	William	807
6	Charles	628
7	George	438
8	Billy	312
9	Thomas	304
10	Joe	301
11	Henry	297
12	Walter	263
13	Eddie	222
14	Edward	217
15	Joseph	199
16	Frank	191
17	Jessie	190
18	Albert	182
19	Johnnie	181
20	David	179
21	Charlie	176
22	Bobby	173
22	Jimmie	173
24	Richard	156
25	Jack	154
25	Louis	154
27	Eugene	141
28	Clarence	130
28	Roy	130
30	Lee	129
31	Fred	125
32	Howard	119
33	Paul	118
34	Arthur	117
35	Earl	116
36	Andrew	109
37	Leroy	108
38	Herbert	105
39	Curtis	104
40	Samuel	103
41	Sam	102
42	Harold	101
43	Tommie	95
44	Ernest	92
45	Roosevelt	91
46	Kenneth	90
47	Leon	88
48	Carl	85
49	Clyde	80
49	Johnny	80