Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1935

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,505
2	Dorothy	651
3	Betty	598
4	Annie	563
5	Shirley	455
6	Willie	310
7	Barbara	279
8	Martha	276
8	Ruby	276
10	Helen	241
11	Rosie	232
12	Doris	217
12	Margaret	217
14	Mildred	210
15	Lillie	206
16	Elizabeth	205
17	Sarah	195
18	Bobbie	188
18	Frances	188
18	Mattie	188
21	Louise	178
22	Ruth	175
23	Emma	164
24	Virginia	163
25	Jessie	151
26	Bessie	150
26	Clara	150
28	Minnie	144
29	Peggy	141
30	Alice	138
31	Bernice	133
31	Thelma	133
33	Evelyn	132
33	Joyce	132
35	Carolyn	130
35	Ethel	130
37	Edna	126
38	Patricia	124
39	Marie	123
40	Catherine	122
41	Fannie	120
42	Bertha	118
43	Billie	117
43	Johnnie	117
45	Gladys	116
46	Georgia	110
46	Juanita	110
48	Ella	109
49	Ida	108
50	Lula	107

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,638
2	Robert	934
3	Willie	893
4	John	884
5	William	769
6	Charles	744
7	George	451
8	Billy	421
9	Joe	385
10	Bobby	359
11	Henry	297
12	Thomas	282
13	Walter	233
14	Eddie	205
15	David	201
16	Edward	184
16	Frank	184
16	Jimmie	184
19	Charlie	176
20	Albert	173
21	Richard	172
22	Paul	171
23	Jerry	170
24	Joseph	169
25	Johnnie	161
26	Fred	144
27	Jessie	142
28	Jimmy	133
29	Donald	127
29	Leroy	127
31	Johnny	125
31	Lee	125
33	Eugene	122
34	Roosevelt	119
35	Arthur	115
36	Clarence	113
36	Earl	113
38	Jack	112
38	Roy	112
40	Howard	105
41	Harold	104
42	Curtis	103
43	Samuel	101
44	Sam	94
45	Kenneth	93
45	Louis	93
47	Carl	90
48	Ernest	87
49	Andrew	84
50	Jesse	81