Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Mississippi, 1945

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,500
2	Betty	625
3	Dorothy	608
4	Barbara	568
5	Linda	542
6	Annie	464
7	Shirley	437
8	Patricia	366
9	Carolyn	318
10	Martha	309
11	Gloria	273
12	Willie	263
13	Sandra	260
14	Ruby	230
15	Rosie	229
16	Margaret	226
17	Bobbie	224
18	Brenda	218
19	Helen	214
20	Elizabeth	209
21	Doris	204
22	Sarah	194
23	Joyce	188
24	Peggy	173
25	Alice	172
25	Nancy	172
27	Judy	169
28	Frances	164
29	Lillie	155
30	Emma	149
31	Carol	137
32	Ethel	135
33	Virginia	134
34	Jessie	133
34	Patsy	133
36	Edna	131
37	Minnie	128
38	Mattie	126
39	Bertha	124
40	Ruth	123
41	Catherine	122
41	Mildred	122
43	Janice	120
44	Bessie	119
45	Johnnie	114
46	Ella	113
47	Rose	109
48	Evelyn	107
49	Louise	106
50	Geraldine	105

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,907
2	Robert	1,106
3	Willie	973
4	John	921
5	William	809
6	Charles	807
7	George	433
8	Thomas	404
9	Jerry	358
10	Henry	321
11	Johnny	317
12	David	311
13	Jimmy	307
14	Larry	297
15	Joe	294
16	Billy	285
17	Richard	275
18	Bobby	256
19	Eddie	249
20	Walter	233
21	Joseph	222
22	Edward	220
23	Jimmie	206
24	Frank	191
25	Roy	178
26	Donald	168
27	Kenneth	160
27	Lee	160
29	Paul	159
30	Albert	156
30	Johnnie	156
32	Michael	155
33	Charlie	145
34	Tommy	144
35	Jessie	137
36	Arthur	136
37	Ronald	125
38	Eugene	122
38	Louis	122
40	Samuel	116
41	Curtis	113
41	Harold	113
43	Clarence	112
44	Howard	111
45	Leroy	110
46	Tommie	109
47	Ernest	108
47	Fred	108
49	Gary	107
50	Jesse	104