Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1942

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,651
2	Betty	697
3	Dorothy	683
4	Barbara	570
5	Annie	512
6	Shirley	401
7	Martha	370
8	Linda	347
9	Patricia	328
10	Willie	315
11	Carolyn	312
12	Ruby	260
13	Peggy	247
14	Sarah	241
15	Gloria	233
15	Margaret	233
17	Helen	229
18	Doris	228
19	Rosie	211
20	Bobbie	202
21	Alice	193
21	Emma	193
23	Sandra	191
24	Elizabeth	189
25	Joyce	180
26	Mattie	176
27	Lillie	173
27	Nancy	173
29	Frances	172
30	Minnie	166
31	Virginia	162
32	Mildred	150
33	Bessie	148
34	Clara	145
35	Jessie	144
36	Ethel	140
37	Ella	135
38	Johnnie	134
38	Ruth	134
40	Patsy	133
41	Louise	127
42	Edna	125
43	Brenda	124
44	Georgia	119
45	Bertha	118
46	Bernice	116
47	Carol	110
47	Marie	110
47	Thelma	110
50	Juanita	109

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,983
2	Robert	1,137
3	John	1,011
4	Willie	966
5	Charles	840
6	William	832
7	George	484
8	Joe	381
9	Thomas	367
10	Billy	366
11	Henry	334
12	David	333
13	Bobby	323
14	Jerry	319
15	Jimmy	285
16	Richard	250
17	Larry	236
17	Walter	236
19	Johnny	231
20	Eddie	223
21	Edward	207
22	Joseph	201
23	Frank	200
24	Jimmie	196
25	Roy	190
26	Albert	168
26	Charlie	168
26	Douglas	168
29	Johnnie	166
30	Jessie	158
31	Paul	157
32	Lee	152
33	Donald	151
34	Kenneth	146
35	Tommy	143
36	Leroy	140
37	Samuel	138
38	Eugene	134
39	Clarence	130
40	Fred	126
41	Arthur	125
42	Tommie	124
43	Curtis	121
44	Louis	117
45	Jesse	113
46	Harold	112
47	Roosevelt	106
48	Gerald	102
49	Earl	98
50	Howard	95