Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,550
2	Dorothy	591
3	Betty	558
4	Annie	528
5	Shirley	443
6	Willie	311
7	Barbara	303
8	Martha	280
9	Helen	248
10	Ruby	244
11	Doris	236
12	Lillie	231
13	Frances	201
14	Louise	198
15	Mildred	197
15	Rosie	197
17	Peggy	195
17	Sarah	195
19	Margaret	191
20	Bobbie	185
21	Elizabeth	181
22	Virginia	178
23	Mattie	168
24	Minnie	165
24	Ruth	165
26	Emma	164
27	Alice	154
28	Jessie	152
29	Ella	148
30	Thelma	145
31	Ethel	142
32	Carolyn	139
33	Nancy	135
34	Patricia	134
35	Bertha	129
35	Edna	129
37	Hattie	127
38	Bessie	124
39	Bernice	123
39	Joyce	123
41	Hazel	118
42	Evelyn	115
43	Gladys	114
43	Mae	114
45	Lula	109
46	Bonnie	108
47	Catherine	106
47	Marie	106
49	Johnnie	105
50	Christine	104

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,582
2	John	946
3	Robert	862
4	Willie	789
5	William	778
6	Charles	655
7	Joe	427
8	George	421
9	Billy	420
10	Bobby	329
11	Thomas	292
12	Henry	281
13	Walter	228
14	Eddie	200
15	Jimmie	199
16	Joseph	190
17	Edward	184
17	Frank	184
19	Charlie	179
20	Richard	176
21	David	172
22	Jimmy	171
23	Jerry	170
24	Albert	159
25	Lee	152
26	Donald	146
27	Jessie	136
28	Johnny	128
29	Johnnie	124
29	Louis	124
31	Roy	121
32	Leroy	118
33	Curtis	116
33	Fred	116
35	Roosevelt	115
36	Paul	114
37	Eugene	113
38	Clarence	111
39	Jack	104
40	Harold	102
40	Sam	102
42	Earl	101
43	Carl	98
44	Howard	95
45	Arthur	94
46	Kenneth	92
47	Melvin	90
48	Andrew	80
49	Percy	79
49	Samuel	79