Top Names of 1916
The most popular names recorded in 1916 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 61,438 |
| 2 | Helen | 32,661 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 27,418 |
| 4 | Margaret | 24,953 |
| 5 | Ruth | 23,189 |
| 6 | Mildred | 15,633 |
| 7 | Anna | 15,228 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 14,940 |
| 9 | Frances | 13,746 |
| 10 | Virginia | 12,487 |
| 11 | Evelyn | 11,889 |
| 12 | Marie | 11,682 |
| 13 | Alice | 10,719 |
| 14 | Florence | 10,412 |
| 15 | Rose | 9,605 |
| 16 | Lillian | 9,592 |
| 17 | Irene | 9,035 |
| 18 | Louise | 8,630 |
| 19 | Edna | 8,625 |
| 20 | Catherine | 8,469 |
| 21 | Josephine | 8,127 |
| 22 | Gladys | 8,019 |
| 23 | Ruby | 7,686 |
| 24 | Martha | 7,610 |
| 25 | Ethel | 7,601 |
| 26 | Grace | 7,461 |
| 27 | Eleanor | 7,406 |
| 28 | Edith | 7,307 |
| 29 | Thelma | 7,290 |
| 30 | Lucille | 7,241 |
| 31 | Hazel | 7,214 |
| 32 | Doris | 7,161 |
| 33 | Pauline | 6,655 |
| 34 | Esther | 6,421 |
| 35 | Gertrude | 6,243 |
| 36 | Annie | 6,105 |
| 37 | Marjorie | 5,866 |
| 38 | Beatrice | 5,586 |
| 39 | Clara | 5,544 |
| 40 | Ann | 5,343 |
| 41 | Emma | 5,217 |
| 42 | Bernice | 5,183 |
| 43 | Lois | 5,149 |
| 44 | Betty | 5,136 |
| 45 | Jean | 5,081 |
| 46 | Julia | 5,066 |
| 47 | Marion | 5,033 |
| 48 | Elsie | 5,027 |
| 49 | Bertha | 4,900 |
| 50 | Agnes | 4,852 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 50,043 |
| 2 | William | 40,418 |
| 3 | James | 35,568 |
| 4 | Robert | 31,741 |
| 5 | Joseph | 23,883 |
| 6 | Charles | 23,612 |
| 7 | George | 23,381 |
| 8 | Edward | 17,005 |
| 9 | Frank | 15,291 |
| 10 | Thomas | 11,998 |
| 11 | Walter | 11,760 |
| 12 | Paul | 10,790 |
| 13 | Harold | 10,698 |
| 14 | Henry | 10,656 |
| 15 | Richard | 10,134 |
| 16 | Raymond | 9,565 |
| 17 | Albert | 9,044 |
| 18 | Arthur | 8,921 |
| 19 | Harry | 8,476 |
| 20 | Donald | 7,737 |
| 21 | Ralph | 7,085 |
| 22 | Louis | 6,817 |
| 23 | Carl | 6,786 |
| 24 | Clarence | 6,304 |
| 25 | Howard | 6,171 |
| 26 | Jack | 6,162 |
| 27 | Kenneth | 6,012 |
| 28 | David | 5,812 |
| 29 | Fred | 5,745 |
| 30 | Willie | 5,660 |
| 31 | Francis | 5,652 |
| 32 | Earl | 5,553 |
| 33 | Roy | 5,327 |
| 34 | Stanley | 5,130 |
| 35 | Joe | 4,911 |
| 36 | Ernest | 4,823 |
| 37 | Anthony | 4,749 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 4,742 |
| 39 | Eugene | 4,646 |
| 40 | Herbert | 4,463 |
| 41 | Samuel | 4,399 |
| 42 | Leonard | 4,328 |
| 43 | Alfred | 4,278 |
| 44 | Michael | 4,210 |
| 45 | Elmer | 3,936 |
| 46 | Andrew | 3,723 |
| 47 | Leo | 3,621 |
| 48 | Norman | 3,609 |
| 49 | Bernard | 3,476 |
| 50 | Peter | 3,370 |