Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1918

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1918 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	67,366	5.603	-125	-65,039	1	John	56,558	5.393	-26	-47,439
2	Helen	36,148	3.006	-411	-35,403	2	William	45,290	4.319	-1	-30,774
3	Dorothy	32,032	2.664	-583	-31,515	3	James	42,118	4.016	-1	-28,593
4	Margaret	27,139	2.257	-123	-24,827	4	Robert	40,620	3.874	-67	-35,480
5	Ruth	25,534	2.124	-260	-24,300	5	Charles	26,922	2.567	-47	-20,318
6	Mildred	17,258	1.435	-2,063	-17,165	6	George	26,318	2.510	-121	-23,259
7	Virginia	16,421	1.366	-533	-15,843	7	Joseph	26,263	2.504	-16	-16,708
8	Frances	16,131	1.342	-437	-15,416	8	Edward	19,489	1.858	-161	-17,221
9	Elizabeth	15,853	1.318	-4	-7,340	9	Frank	17,017	1.623	-383	-16,214
10	Anna	15,666	1.303	-44	-11,521	10	Thomas	13,910	1.326	-39	-7,131
11	Evelyn	13,493	1.122	1	-3,117	11	Walter	13,338	1.272	-260	-12,035
12	Marie	12,589	1.047	-564	-12,059	12	Richard	12,323	1.175	-176	-10,204
13	Alice	11,590	0.964	-58	-7,947	13	Harold	12,185	1.162	-784	-11,904
14	Florence	11,316	0.941	-957	-11,047	14	Paul	11,755	1.121	-220	-10,130
15	Lillian	9,986	0.831	-19	-4,452	15	Raymond	11,604	1.107	-284	-10,455
16	Irene	9,774	0.813	-621	-9,310	16	Henry	11,354	1.083	0	-705
17	Rose	9,568	0.796	-106	-7,136	17	Arthur	10,105	0.964	-213	-8,463
18	Louise	9,110	0.758	-782	-8,771	18	Donald	9,973	0.951	-508	-9,440
19	Doris	9,061	0.754	-1,795	-8,950	19	Albert	9,935	0.947	-433	-9,278
20	Catherine	8,842	0.735	-184	-7,344	20	Harry	9,896	0.944	-600	-9,469
21	Betty	8,803	0.732	-1,107	-8,588	21	Jack	8,342	0.795	-7	492
22	Gladys	8,735	0.726	-3,417	-8,690	22	Ralph	8,161	0.778	-929	-7,944
23	Edna	8,698	0.723	-1,714	-8,581	23	Clarence	7,188	0.685	-1,093	-7,016
24	Josephine	8,682	0.722	-67	-5,659	24	Louis	7,082	0.675	-239	-5,714
25	Martha	8,342	0.694	-772	-8,001	25	Carl	7,003	0.668	-675	-6,661
26	Eleanor	8,176	0.680	-6	-2,482	26	Howard	6,928	0.661	-942	-6,715
27	Ruby	8,134	0.677	-47	-4,582	27	Kenneth	6,809	0.649	-199	-5,154
28	Ethel	8,076	0.672	-4,328	-8,044	28	David	6,627	0.632	6	3,070
29	Lucille	7,902	0.657	-266	-6,787	29	Willie	6,537	0.623	-905	-6,313
30	Edith	7,859	0.654	-488	-7,260	30	Francis	6,347	0.605	-450	-5,741
31	Grace	7,770	0.646	7	-1,046	31	Earl	6,322	0.603	-1,633	-6,227
32	Thelma	7,740	0.644	-4,926	-7,713	32	Roy	6,211	0.592	-510	-5,697
33	Hazel	7,615	0.633	-9	-2,699	33	Fred	6,182	0.590	-1,617	-6,085
34	Marjorie	7,517	0.625	-1,133	-7,312	34	Joe	5,804	0.553	-661	-5,459
35	Pauline	7,222	0.601	-2,750	-7,161	35	Eugene	5,632	0.537	-827	-5,380
36	Annie	6,742	0.561	-272	-5,662	36	Stanley	5,618	0.536	-671	-5,279
37	Jean	6,600	0.549	-2,356	-6,525	37	Ernest	5,527	0.527	-941	-5,317
38	Esther	6,574	0.547	-115	-4,743	38	Lawrence	5,372	0.512	-460	-4,799
39	Gertrude	6,264	0.521	-5,447	-6,241	39	Anthony	5,168	0.493	1	2,835
40	Beatrice	5,907	0.491	-533	-5,372	40	Herbert	5,128	0.489	-1,987	-5,057
41	Bernice	5,893	0.490	-2,627	-5,829	41	Leonard	4,980	0.475	-592	-4,565
42	Lois	5,877	0.489	-1,651	-5,755	42	Alfred	4,873	0.465	-830	-4,624
43	Clara	5,778	0.481	-60	-2,901	43	Samuel	4,771	0.455	22	4,963
44	Ann	5,613	0.467	-939	-5,346	44	Elmer	4,373	0.417	-1,215	-4,228
45	Marion	5,583	0.464	-1,560	-5,450	45	Michael	4,296	0.410	31	7,324
46	Emma	5,324	0.443	45	13,364	46	Andrew	4,139	0.395	3	3,095
47	Agnes	5,291	0.440	-1,157	-5,096	47	Bernard	4,098	0.391	-1,104	-3,933
48	Julia	5,268	0.438	-45	-2,279	48	Leo	4,036	0.385	-2	2,683
49	Elsie	5,194	0.432	-231	-4,016	49	Norman	3,867	0.369	-1,175	-3,716
50	Katherine	5,191	0.432	-62	-2,525	50	Russell	3,833	0.366	-363	-3,069

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.