Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1916

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1916 Popular Names U.S. - Top 100 Baby Names
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Girls		Number of Girls	%	Rank	Number	Boys		Number of Boys	%	Rank	Number
1	Mary	61,438	5.659	-125	-59,111	1	John	50,043	5.420	-26	-40,924
2	Helen	32,662	3.008	-411	-31,917	2	William	40,419	4.378	-1	-25,903
3	Dorothy	27,417	2.525	-583	-26,900	3	James	35,569	3.853	-1	-22,044
4	Margaret	24,953	2.298	-123	-22,641	4	Robert	31,741	3.438	-67	-26,601
5	Ruth	23,190	2.136	-260	-21,956	5	Joseph	23,883	2.587	-18	-14,328
6	Mildred	15,633	1.440	-2,063	-15,540	6	Charles	23,611	2.557	-46	-17,007
7	Anna	15,228	1.403	-47	-11,083	7	George	23,380	2.532	-120	-20,321
8	Elizabeth	14,939	1.376	-5	-6,426	8	Edward	17,005	1.842	-161	-14,737
9	Frances	13,746	1.266	-436	-13,031	9	Frank	15,291	1.656	-383	-14,488
10	Virginia	12,487	1.150	-530	-11,909	10	Thomas	11,998	1.300	-39	-5,219
11	Evelyn	11,889	1.095	1	-1,513	11	Walter	11,760	1.274	-260	-10,457
12	Marie	11,682	1.076	-564	-11,152	12	Paul	10,791	1.169	-222	-9,166
13	Alice	10,719	0.987	-58	-7,076	13	Harold	10,698	1.159	-784	-10,417
14	Florence	10,412	0.959	-957	-10,143	14	Henry	10,656	1.154	-2	-7
15	Rose	9,605	0.885	-108	-7,173	15	Richard	10,134	1.098	-173	-8,015
16	Lillian	9,592	0.883	-18	-4,058	16	Raymond	9,566	1.036	-283	-8,417
17	Irene	9,035	0.832	-620	-8,571	17	Albert	9,044	0.980	-435	-8,387
18	Louise	8,630	0.795	-782	-8,291	18	Arthur	8,921	0.966	-212	-7,279
19	Edna	8,625	0.794	-1,718	-8,508	19	Harry	8,476	0.918	-601	-8,049
20	Catherine	8,469	0.780	-184	-6,971	20	Donald	7,737	0.838	-506	-7,204
21	Josephine	8,127	0.749	-70	-5,104	21	Ralph	7,085	0.767	-930	-6,868
22	Gladys	8,019	0.739	-3,417	-7,974	22	Louis	6,817	0.738	-241	-5,449
23	Ruby	7,685	0.708	-51	-4,133	23	Carl	6,786	0.735	-677	-6,444
24	Martha	7,610	0.701	-773	-7,269	24	Clarence	6,304	0.683	-1,092	-6,132
25	Ethel	7,601	0.700	-4,331	-7,569	25	Howard	6,171	0.668	-943	-5,958
26	Grace	7,461	0.687	2	-737	26	Jack	6,162	0.667	-2	2,672
27	Eleanor	7,406	0.682	-5	-1,712	27	Kenneth	6,012	0.651	-199	-4,357
28	Edith	7,306	0.673	-490	-6,707	28	David	5,813	0.630	6	3,884
29	Thelma	7,290	0.671	-4,929	-7,263	29	Fred	5,745	0.622	-1,621	-5,648
30	Lucille	7,241	0.667	-265	-6,126	30	Willie	5,660	0.613	-904	-5,436
31	Hazel	7,214	0.664	-11	-2,298	31	Francis	5,652	0.612	-449	-5,046
32	Doris	7,161	0.660	-1,782	-7,050	32	Earl	5,553	0.601	-1,632	-5,458
33	Pauline	6,655	0.613	-2,752	-6,594	33	Roy	5,327	0.577	-509	-4,813
34	Esther	6,421	0.591	-119	-4,590	34	Stanley	5,130	0.556	-673	-4,791
35	Gertrude	6,243	0.575	-5,451	-6,220	35	Joe	4,911	0.532	-660	-4,566
36	Annie	6,105	0.562	-272	-5,025	36	Ernest	4,823	0.522	-942	-4,613
37	Marjorie	5,866	0.540	-1,130	-5,661	37	Anthony	4,749	0.514	-1	3,254
38	Beatrice	5,586	0.515	-535	-5,051	38	Lawrence	4,742	0.514	-460	-4,169
39	Clara	5,544	0.511	-64	-2,667	39	Eugene	4,646	0.503	-823	-4,394
40	Ann	5,343	0.492	-943	-5,076	40	Herbert	4,463	0.483	-1,987	-4,392
41	Emma	5,217	0.481	40	13,471	41	Samuel	4,399	0.476	20	5,335
42	Bernice	5,183	0.477	-2,626	-5,119	42	Leonard	4,328	0.469	-591	-3,913
43	Lois	5,149	0.474	-1,650	-5,027	43	Alfred	4,278	0.463	-829	-4,029
44	Betty	5,136	0.473	-1,084	-4,921	44	Michael	4,210	0.456	30	7,410
45	Jean	5,081	0.468	-2,348	-5,006	45	Elmer	3,936	0.426	-1,214	-3,791
46	Julia	5,066	0.467	-47	-2,077	46	Andrew	3,723	0.403	3	3,511
47	Marion	5,033	0.464	-1,558	-4,900	47	Leo	3,621	0.392	-3	3,098
48	Elsie	5,027	0.463	-232	-3,849	48	Norman	3,609	0.391	-1,176	-3,458
49	Bertha	4,900	0.451	-4,710	-4,872	49	Bernard	3,476	0.376	-1,102	-3,311
50	Agnes	4,853	0.447	-1,154	-4,658	50	Peter	3,370	0.365	-161	-1,558

United States name popularity data is provided by the Social Security Administration and is based on Social Security card applications.

Data for a given year is not made available until well into the next year.

Data reflects what was recorded and has not been edited for errors, so for example the gender associated with a name may be incorrect.

The more babies that are given a particular name, the higher the popularity ranking. If multiple names have the same usage, the tie is broken by assigning popularity rank in alphabetical order. Therefore in the case of names with fewer occurrences, names with the same number of occurrences may have vastly different rankings because they will be interranked alphabetically.

To safeguard privacy, the SSA does not include names with less than 5 occurrences.

Please note, we update the data each May when the SSA releases new figures. All data changes at that time, including previous years, which will change minutely based on new information.