Top Names of 1917
The most popular names recorded in 1917 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 64,280 |
| 2 | Helen | 34,251 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 28,852 |
| 4 | Margaret | 25,560 |
| 5 | Ruth | 23,568 |
| 6 | Mildred | 16,256 |
| 7 | Anna | 15,160 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 15,131 |
| 9 | Frances | 14,363 |
| 10 | Virginia | 14,261 |
| 11 | Evelyn | 12,532 |
| 12 | Marie | 11,813 |
| 13 | Alice | 10,990 |
| 14 | Florence | 10,538 |
| 15 | Lillian | 9,843 |
| 16 | Rose | 9,783 |
| 17 | Irene | 9,163 |
| 18 | Catherine | 8,689 |
| 19 | Louise | 8,584 |
| 20 | Edna | 8,422 |
| 21 | Josephine | 8,326 |
| 22 | Martha | 8,261 |
| 23 | Gladys | 8,075 |
| 24 | Ethel | 7,865 |
| 25 | Doris | 7,819 |
| 26 | Eleanor | 7,669 |
| 27 | Ruby | 7,662 |
| 28 | Edith | 7,532 |
| 29 | Lucille | 7,529 |
| 30 | Grace | 7,373 |
| 31 | Hazel | 7,285 |
| 32 | Thelma | 7,245 |
| 33 | Pauline | 6,896 |
| 34 | Betty | 6,639 |
| 35 | Annie | 6,404 |
| 36 | Marjorie | 6,399 |
| 37 | Gertrude | 6,300 |
| 38 | Esther | 6,281 |
| 39 | Beatrice | 5,839 |
| 40 | Jean | 5,692 |
| 41 | Clara | 5,626 |
| 42 | Bernice | 5,546 |
| 43 | Lois | 5,485 |
| 44 | Ann | 5,455 |
| 45 | Marion | 5,371 |
| 46 | Emma | 5,121 |
| 47 | Julia | 5,078 |
| 48 | Agnes | 5,066 |
| 49 | Katherine | 4,956 |
| 50 | Elsie | 4,939 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 51,852 |
| 2 | William | 42,422 |
| 3 | James | 37,338 |
| 4 | Robert | 35,220 |
| 5 | Joseph | 24,761 |
| 6 | George | 24,196 |
| 7 | Charles | 24,143 |
| 8 | Edward | 17,501 |
| 9 | Frank | 15,768 |
| 10 | Thomas | 12,611 |
| 11 | Walter | 12,582 |
| 12 | Harold | 11,194 |
| 13 | Paul | 11,156 |
| 14 | Richard | 10,914 |
| 15 | Henry | 10,696 |
| 16 | Raymond | 9,956 |
| 17 | Arthur | 9,282 |
| 18 | Albert | 9,157 |
| 19 | Harry | 8,856 |
| 20 | Donald | 8,729 |
| 21 | Ralph | 7,391 |
| 22 | Jack | 6,874 |
| 23 | Louis | 6,771 |
| 24 | Carl | 6,699 |
| 25 | Clarence | 6,587 |
| 26 | Howard | 6,410 |
| 27 | Kenneth | 6,141 |
| 28 | David | 6,099 |
| 29 | Fred | 5,986 |
| 30 | Francis | 5,801 |
| 31 | Willie | 5,751 |
| 32 | Earl | 5,632 |
| 33 | Roy | 5,586 |
| 34 | Stanley | 5,186 |
| 35 | Joe | 5,142 |
| 36 | Lawrence | 5,094 |
| 37 | Ernest | 5,055 |
| 38 | Anthony | 5,027 |
| 39 | Eugene | 4,873 |
| 40 | Herbert | 4,745 |
| 41 | Leonard | 4,694 |
| 42 | Samuel | 4,490 |
| 43 | Alfred | 4,424 |
| 44 | Michael | 4,288 |
| 45 | Elmer | 3,812 |
| 46 | Norman | 3,788 |
| 47 | Leo | 3,779 |
| 48 | Andrew | 3,752 |
| 49 | Bernard | 3,711 |
| 50 | Peter | 3,464 |