Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1917

Page of 2

1917 Popular Names U.S. - Top 100 Baby Names
				Change from 1916						Change from 1916
Girls		Number of Girls	%	Rank	Number	Boys		Number of Boys	%	Rank	Number
1	Mary	64,281	5.721	0	2,843	1	John	51,853	5.405	0	1,810
2	Helen	34,251	3.048	0	1,589	2	William	42,422	4.422	0	2,003
3	Dorothy	28,851	2.568	0	1,434	3	James	37,339	3.892	0	1,770
4	Margaret	25,560	2.275	0	607	4	Robert	35,220	3.671	0	3,479
5	Ruth	23,568	2.097	0	378	5	Joseph	24,762	2.581	0	879
6	Mildred	16,257	1.447	0	624	6	George	24,196	2.522	1	816
7	Anna	15,160	1.349	0	-68	7	Charles	24,143	2.517	-1	532
8	Elizabeth	15,131	1.347	0	192	8	Edward	17,502	1.824	0	497
9	Frances	14,363	1.278	0	617	9	Frank	15,769	1.644	0	478
10	Virginia	14,261	1.269	0	1,774	10	Thomas	12,611	1.315	0	613
11	Evelyn	12,532	1.115	0	643	11	Walter	12,582	1.312	0	822
12	Marie	11,813	1.051	0	131	12	Harold	11,194	1.167	1	496
13	Alice	10,990	0.978	0	271	13	Paul	11,155	1.163	-1	364
14	Florence	10,539	0.938	0	127	14	Richard	10,914	1.138	1	780
15	Lillian	9,843	0.876	1	251	15	Henry	10,696	1.115	-1	40
16	Rose	9,783	0.871	-1	178	16	Raymond	9,956	1.038	0	390
17	Irene	9,163	0.815	0	128	17	Arthur	9,282	0.968	1	361
18	Catherine	8,689	0.773	2	220	18	Albert	9,157	0.955	-1	113
19	Louise	8,584	0.764	-1	-46	19	Harry	8,856	0.923	0	380
20	Edna	8,422	0.749	-1	-203	20	Donald	8,729	0.910	0	992
21	Josephine	8,326	0.741	0	199	21	Ralph	7,392	0.771	0	307
22	Martha	8,261	0.735	2	651	22	Jack	6,874	0.717	4	712
23	Gladys	8,075	0.719	-1	56	23	Louis	6,771	0.706	-1	-46
24	Ethel	7,864	0.700	1	263	24	Carl	6,699	0.698	-1	-87
25	Doris	7,819	0.696	7	658	25	Clarence	6,586	0.687	-1	282
26	Eleanor	7,669	0.682	1	263	26	Howard	6,410	0.668	-1	239
27	Ruby	7,662	0.682	-4	-23	27	Kenneth	6,142	0.640	0	130
28	Edith	7,532	0.670	0	226	28	David	6,100	0.636	0	287
29	Lucille	7,528	0.670	1	287	29	Fred	5,986	0.624	0	241
30	Grace	7,373	0.656	-4	-88	30	Francis	5,801	0.605	1	149
31	Hazel	7,285	0.648	0	71	31	Willie	5,751	0.599	-1	91
32	Thelma	7,245	0.645	-3	-45	32	Earl	5,632	0.587	0	79
33	Pauline	6,896	0.614	0	241	33	Roy	5,586	0.582	0	259
34	Betty	6,639	0.591	10	1,503	34	Stanley	5,186	0.541	0	56
35	Annie	6,404	0.570	1	299	35	Joe	5,143	0.536	0	232
36	Marjorie	6,399	0.569	1	533	36	Lawrence	5,094	0.531	2	352
37	Gertrude	6,300	0.561	-2	57	37	Ernest	5,055	0.527	-1	232
38	Esther	6,281	0.559	-4	-140	38	Anthony	5,027	0.524	-1	278
39	Beatrice	5,839	0.520	-1	253	39	Eugene	4,873	0.508	0	227
40	Jean	5,692	0.507	5	611	40	Herbert	4,745	0.495	0	282
41	Clara	5,626	0.501	-2	82	41	Leonard	4,694	0.489	1	366
42	Bernice	5,546	0.494	0	363	42	Samuel	4,491	0.468	-1	92
43	Lois	5,485	0.488	0	336	43	Alfred	4,424	0.461	0	146
44	Ann	5,455	0.485	-4	112	44	Michael	4,289	0.447	0	79
45	Marion	5,371	0.478	2	338	45	Elmer	3,812	0.397	0	-124
46	Emma	5,121	0.456	-5	-96	46	Norman	3,789	0.395	2	180
47	Julia	5,078	0.452	-1	12	47	Leo	3,779	0.394	0	158
48	Agnes	5,066	0.451	2	213	48	Andrew	3,752	0.391	-2	29
49	Katherine	4,956	0.441	2	155	49	Bernard	3,711	0.387	0	235
50	Elsie	4,939	0.440	-2	-88	50	Peter	3,464	0.361	0	94

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.