Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1939

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,562
2	Betty	659
3	Dorothy	586
4	Barbara	466
5	Annie	456
6	Shirley	390
7	Martha	341
8	Willie	271
9	Ruby	239
10	Doris	226
11	Margaret	225
12	Patricia	218
13	Rosie	210
14	Peggy	209
15	Carolyn	206
16	Helen	205
17	Bobbie	201
18	Sarah	195
19	Alice	187
20	Mildred	185
21	Frances	184
22	Lillie	178
23	Nancy	176
24	Emma	174
24	Virginia	174
26	Louise	172
27	Elizabeth	166
28	Linda	150
29	Bessie	145
30	Ethel	142
30	Joyce	142
32	Bernice	141
33	Clara	139
33	Mattie	139
35	Minnie	138
36	Ruth	136
37	Thelma	130
38	Hattie	122
39	Jessie	119
40	Edna	116
40	Ella	116
42	Ida	115
43	Gloria	114
43	Mae	114
45	Jo	111
46	Marie	108
47	Ann	107
48	Bertha	106
49	Johnnie	103
49	Juanita	103

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,758
2	Robert	1,011
3	John	932
4	Willie	860
5	William	805
6	Charles	802
7	Joe	425
8	George	413
9	Billy	403
10	Bobby	356
11	Thomas	344
12	Henry	330
13	Jimmy	256
14	David	238
15	Walter	234
16	Jerry	220
17	Eddie	218
18	Frank	206
19	Edward	199
20	Jimmie	197
21	Richard	196
22	Joseph	177
23	Paul	164
24	Donald	156
25	Albert	155
26	Charlie	149
27	Jessie	148
28	Roy	145
29	Johnny	143
30	Arthur	138
31	Johnnie	131
32	Fred	127
32	Kenneth	127
34	Larry	120
34	Lee	120
36	Harold	115
37	Eugene	113
38	Roosevelt	112
39	Carl	109
40	Samuel	108
41	Howard	106
42	Leroy	103
43	Jack	102
44	Louis	101
45	Clarence	99
46	Tommy	96
47	Earl	95
47	Gerald	95
49	Curtis	89
49	Sam	89