Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,500
2	Betty	614
3	Dorothy	561
4	Annie	522
5	Shirley	484
6	Barbara	385
7	Willie	311
8	Martha	292
9	Ruby	251
10	Doris	246
11	Lillie	227
11	Rosie	227
13	Margaret	219
14	Helen	210
15	Peggy	209
16	Sarah	205
17	Mattie	196
18	Frances	193
19	Elizabeth	189
20	Bobbie	183
21	Alice	177
22	Mildred	171
23	Louise	170
24	Emma	156
24	Patricia	156
26	Carolyn	155
27	Bessie	154
28	Minnie	153
28	Nancy	153
28	Virginia	153
31	Edna	148
32	Jessie	141
33	Clara	133
34	Ethel	131
35	Joyce	130
36	Lula	129
37	Bernice	123
37	Thelma	123
39	Ruth	122
40	Bertha	121
41	Gloria	117
42	Marie	113
43	Billie	111
44	Hattie	109
45	Ella	108
46	Juanita	104
47	Gladys	103
47	Johnnie	103
49	Ann	100
49	Jean	100

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,698
2	John	957
3	Robert	934
4	Willie	797
5	William	761
6	Charles	743
7	Joe	459
8	Billy	407
9	George	394
10	Bobby	344
11	Thomas	296
12	Henry	281
13	Eddie	223
13	Jimmie	223
13	Jimmy	223
16	Walter	213
17	David	209
18	Joseph	204
19	Edward	193
20	Jerry	188
21	Richard	180
22	Frank	175
23	Charlie	168
24	Johnnie	162
25	Albert	149
26	Jessie	144
26	Johnny	144
28	Donald	143
28	Harold	143
30	Eugene	140
31	Lee	139
31	Roy	139
33	Paul	134
34	Fred	120
35	Clarence	118
36	Louis	116
37	Roosevelt	113
38	Arthur	112
38	Kenneth	112
40	Leroy	111
41	Jack	108
42	Howard	106
43	Tommie	103
44	Earl	101
45	Carl	99
46	Jesse	96
47	Larry	95
47	Samuel	95
49	Ernest	94
50	Curtis	93