Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,557
2	Betty	631
3	Dorothy	605
4	Annie	492
5	Barbara	456
6	Shirley	392
7	Martha	360
8	Willie	270
9	Ruby	238
10	Peggy	236
11	Linda	235
11	Patricia	235
13	Helen	230
14	Doris	220
15	Rosie	209
16	Carolyn	201
16	Emma	201
18	Margaret	198
19	Gloria	194
20	Elizabeth	191
21	Lillie	190
22	Sarah	184
23	Alice	181
24	Mildred	176
25	Nancy	175
26	Frances	172
27	Bobbie	169
27	Mattie	169
29	Joyce	156
30	Virginia	155
31	Ruth	149
32	Clara	143
33	Ethel	139
34	Minnie	138
35	Bernice	135
36	Louise	133
37	Bertha	131
38	Patsy	130
39	Edna	129
40	Catherine	121
41	Bessie	119
42	Jessie	115
43	Bonnie	114
44	Ida	110
45	Carrie	109
46	Ann	108
47	Hattie	106
48	Ella	105
49	Juanita	104
50	Jean	103

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,780
2	Robert	1,026
3	John	917
4	Charles	853
5	Willie	824
6	William	806
7	George	417
8	Billy	401
9	Thomas	390
10	Bobby	387
11	Joe	385
12	Henry	333
13	Jerry	306
14	Walter	263
15	David	261
16	Jimmy	229
17	Eddie	225
18	Richard	213
19	Jimmie	211
20	Frank	207
21	Joseph	205
22	Johnny	199
23	Charlie	190
23	Edward	190
25	Paul	178
26	Roy	172
27	Jessie	164
28	Donald	163
29	Albert	160
30	Johnnie	149
31	Larry	140
32	Arthur	130
32	Eugene	130
34	Kenneth	129
35	Roosevelt	128
36	Fred	124
37	Lee	123
38	Earl	119
39	Tommy	117
40	Leroy	116
41	Samuel	112
42	Curtis	109
42	Harold	109
44	Jesse	107
45	Melvin	104
46	Clarence	98
47	Howard	96
48	Tommie	94
49	Louis	93
50	Carl	90