Top Names of 1918
The most popular names recorded in 1918 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 67,365 |
| 2 | Helen | 36,148 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 32,030 |
| 4 | Margaret | 27,139 |
| 5 | Ruth | 25,535 |
| 6 | Mildred | 17,258 |
| 7 | Virginia | 16,421 |
| 8 | Frances | 16,131 |
| 9 | Elizabeth | 15,853 |
| 10 | Anna | 15,666 |
| 11 | Evelyn | 13,493 |
| 12 | Marie | 12,589 |
| 13 | Alice | 11,590 |
| 14 | Florence | 11,318 |
| 15 | Lillian | 9,986 |
| 16 | Irene | 9,774 |
| 17 | Rose | 9,568 |
| 18 | Louise | 9,111 |
| 19 | Doris | 9,061 |
| 20 | Catherine | 8,842 |
| 21 | Betty | 8,803 |
| 22 | Gladys | 8,734 |
| 23 | Edna | 8,698 |
| 24 | Josephine | 8,682 |
| 25 | Martha | 8,342 |
| 26 | Eleanor | 8,176 |
| 27 | Ruby | 8,134 |
| 28 | Ethel | 8,075 |
| 29 | Lucille | 7,902 |
| 30 | Edith | 7,858 |
| 31 | Grace | 7,770 |
| 32 | Thelma | 7,740 |
| 33 | Hazel | 7,615 |
| 34 | Marjorie | 7,517 |
| 35 | Pauline | 7,222 |
| 36 | Annie | 6,743 |
| 37 | Jean | 6,600 |
| 38 | Esther | 6,574 |
| 39 | Gertrude | 6,264 |
| 40 | Beatrice | 5,907 |
| 41 | Bernice | 5,892 |
| 42 | Lois | 5,877 |
| 43 | Clara | 5,778 |
| 44 | Ann | 5,613 |
| 45 | Marion | 5,583 |
| 46 | Emma | 5,324 |
| 47 | Agnes | 5,291 |
| 48 | Julia | 5,268 |
| 49 | Elsie | 5,194 |
| 50 | Katherine | 5,191 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 56,558 |
| 2 | William | 45,291 |
| 3 | James | 42,115 |
| 4 | Robert | 40,619 |
| 5 | Charles | 26,921 |
| 6 | George | 26,318 |
| 7 | Joseph | 26,261 |
| 8 | Edward | 19,489 |
| 9 | Frank | 17,018 |
| 10 | Thomas | 13,910 |
| 11 | Walter | 13,338 |
| 12 | Richard | 12,323 |
| 13 | Harold | 12,185 |
| 14 | Paul | 11,755 |
| 15 | Raymond | 11,604 |
| 16 | Henry | 11,354 |
| 17 | Arthur | 10,105 |
| 18 | Donald | 9,972 |
| 19 | Albert | 9,935 |
| 20 | Harry | 9,896 |
| 21 | Jack | 8,341 |
| 22 | Ralph | 8,162 |
| 23 | Clarence | 7,187 |
| 24 | Louis | 7,082 |
| 25 | Carl | 7,003 |
| 26 | Howard | 6,928 |
| 27 | Kenneth | 6,809 |
| 28 | David | 6,627 |
| 29 | Willie | 6,537 |
| 30 | Francis | 6,347 |
| 31 | Earl | 6,321 |
| 32 | Roy | 6,211 |
| 33 | Fred | 6,182 |
| 34 | Joe | 5,805 |
| 35 | Eugene | 5,631 |
| 36 | Stanley | 5,618 |
| 37 | Ernest | 5,527 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 5,372 |
| 39 | Anthony | 5,168 |
| 40 | Herbert | 5,128 |
| 41 | Leonard | 4,980 |
| 42 | Alfred | 4,873 |
| 43 | Samuel | 4,772 |
| 44 | Elmer | 4,373 |
| 45 | Michael | 4,296 |
| 46 | Andrew | 4,138 |
| 47 | Bernard | 4,098 |
| 48 | Leo | 4,036 |
| 49 | Norman | 3,867 |
| 50 | Russell | 3,833 |