Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,539
2	Betty	663
3	Dorothy	635
4	Annie	527
5	Shirley	449
6	Barbara	431
7	Martha	324
8	Willie	288
9	Ruby	267
10	Doris	254
11	Margaret	236
12	Peggy	214
13	Lillie	210
14	Rosie	207
15	Elizabeth	205
15	Helen	205
17	Sarah	204
18	Carolyn	191
18	Ethel	191
20	Emma	190
21	Mattie	189
22	Bobbie	187
23	Alice	186
23	Frances	186
25	Mildred	185
26	Patricia	179
27	Joyce	171
28	Virginia	163
29	Jessie	159
30	Louise	156
31	Ruth	152
32	Clara	146
33	Ella	144
34	Edna	143
35	Minnie	142
36	Nancy	132
37	Johnnie	130
38	Bernice	124
39	Catherine	121
40	Bessie	119
40	Lula	119
42	Evelyn	118
43	Bertha	117
44	Juanita	115
44	Thelma	115
46	Mae	111
47	Bonnie	109
48	Hattie	106
49	Marie	104
50	Margie	102

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,720
2	Robert	996
3	John	947
4	Willie	879
5	Charles	771
6	William	752
7	Billy	438
8	George	393
8	Joe	393
10	Thomas	354
11	Bobby	351
12	Henry	268
13	Jimmy	259
14	Walter	253
15	David	242
16	Jerry	229
17	Edward	223
18	Eddie	218
19	Jimmie	216
20	Richard	198
21	Charlie	185
21	Joseph	185
23	Frank	168
24	Albert	166
25	Johnnie	154
26	Lee	151
27	Leroy	147
28	Donald	146
29	Paul	144
30	Johnny	140
31	Fred	139
32	Roosevelt	135
33	Arthur	130
34	Louis	127
35	Harold	124
36	Samuel	122
37	Roy	121
38	Kenneth	120
39	Clarence	119
39	Jessie	119
39	Tommy	119
42	Curtis	116
43	Eugene	108
44	Earl	106
45	Larry	103
46	Howard	101
47	Tommie	96
48	Carl	92
49	Raymond	89
50	Jack	88