Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1943

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,716
2	Dorothy	687
3	Betty	685
4	Barbara	653
5	Linda	515
6	Annie	485
7	Martha	390
8	Shirley	384
9	Patricia	332
10	Carolyn	330
11	Willie	296
12	Ruby	255
13	Doris	249
14	Margaret	246
15	Bobbie	231
16	Helen	230
17	Sandra	228
18	Elizabeth	224
19	Rosie	208
20	Sarah	207
21	Gloria	204
22	Nancy	196
23	Peggy	190
24	Frances	189
25	Lillie	186
26	Emma	182
27	Alice	181
28	Virginia	180
29	Joyce	179
30	Minnie	173
31	Brenda	169
32	Mattie	168
33	Patsy	161
34	Ethel	143
35	Mildred	141
36	Edna	136
37	Bessie	133
38	Bonnie	129
39	Johnnie	128
40	Bernice	127
41	Bertha	126
42	Carol	125
43	Clara	123
43	Georgia	123
45	Ruth	120
46	Jessie	119
47	Jo	117
48	Judy	115
48	Louise	115
50	Thelma	114

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,073
2	Robert	1,145
3	John	1,086
4	Willie	1,005
5	Charles	933
6	William	930
7	George	547
8	Thomas	414
9	Billy	399
10	David	359
11	Jerry	355
12	Joe	342
13	Henry	340
14	Jimmy	329
15	Bobby	307
16	Richard	267
17	Eddie	260
18	Larry	255
19	Walter	253
20	Joseph	249
21	Edward	238
22	Johnny	233
23	Jimmie	213
24	Frank	210
25	Charlie	190
26	Donald	188
27	Johnnie	185
28	Albert	181
29	Roy	177
30	Paul	172
31	Kenneth	170
32	Lee	161
33	Jessie	154
34	Leroy	149
35	Tommy	145
36	Fred	143
37	Samuel	136
38	Douglas	133
39	Clarence	132
40	Eugene	131
41	Howard	125
42	Curtis	123
43	Arthur	116
44	Harold	114
45	Roosevelt	113
46	Louis	111
47	Jesse	110
48	Earl	106
49	Tommie	102
50	Ernest	100