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The top names of 1916

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 1,934,414 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1916

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	61,438	5.88%
2	Helen	32,661	3.13%
3	Dorothy	27,418	2.63%
4	Margaret	24,953	2.39%
5	Ruth	23,189	2.22%
6	Mildred	15,633	1.50%
7	Anna	15,228	1.46%
8	Elizabeth	14,940	1.43%
9	Frances	13,746	1.32%
10	Virginia	12,487	1.20%
11	Evelyn	11,889	1.14%
12	Marie	11,682	1.12%
13	Alice	10,719	1.03%
14	Florence	10,412	1.00%
15	Rose	9,605	0.92%
16	Lillian	9,592	0.92%
17	Irene	9,035	0.87%
18	Louise	8,630	0.83%
19	Edna	8,625	0.83%
20	Catherine	8,469	0.81%
21	Josephine	8,127	0.78%
22	Gladys	8,019	0.77%
23	Ruby	7,686	0.74%
24	Martha	7,610	0.73%
25	Ethel	7,601	0.73%
26	Grace	7,461	0.71%
27	Eleanor	7,406	0.71%
28	Edith	7,307	0.70%
29	Thelma	7,290	0.70%
30	Lucille	7,241	0.69%
31	Hazel	7,214	0.69%
32	Doris	7,161	0.69%
33	Pauline	6,655	0.64%
34	Esther	6,421	0.61%
35	Gertrude	6,243	0.60%
36	Annie	6,105	0.58%
37	Marjorie	5,866	0.56%
38	Beatrice	5,586	0.53%
39	Clara	5,544	0.53%
40	Ann	5,343	0.51%
41	Emma	5,217	0.50%
42	Bernice	5,183	0.50%
43	Lois	5,149	0.49%
44	Betty	5,136	0.49%
45	Jean	5,081	0.49%
46	Julia	5,066	0.49%
47	Marion	5,033	0.48%
48	Elsie	5,027	0.48%
49	Bertha	4,900	0.47%
50	Agnes	4,852	0.46%

Boys, 1916

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	50,043	5.62%
2	William	40,418	4.54%
3	James	35,569	4.00%
4	Robert	31,741	3.57%
5	Joseph	23,883	2.68%
6	Charles	23,612	2.65%
7	George	23,381	2.63%
8	Edward	17,005	1.91%
9	Frank	15,291	1.72%
10	Thomas	11,998	1.35%
11	Walter	11,760	1.32%
12	Paul	10,790	1.21%
13	Harold	10,698	1.20%
14	Henry	10,656	1.20%
15	Richard	10,134	1.14%
16	Raymond	9,565	1.07%
17	Albert	9,044	1.02%
18	Arthur	8,921	1.00%
19	Harry	8,476	0.95%
20	Donald	7,736	0.87%
21	Ralph	7,085	0.80%
22	Louis	6,817	0.77%
23	Carl	6,785	0.76%
24	Clarence	6,304	0.71%
25	Howard	6,171	0.69%
26	Jack	6,161	0.69%
27	Kenneth	6,012	0.68%
28	David	5,812	0.65%
29	Fred	5,745	0.65%
30	Willie	5,660	0.64%
31	Francis	5,652	0.63%
32	Earl	5,553	0.62%
33	Roy	5,327	0.60%
34	Stanley	5,130	0.58%
35	Joe	4,911	0.55%
36	Ernest	4,823	0.54%
37	Anthony	4,749	0.53%
38	Lawrence	4,742	0.53%
39	Eugene	4,646	0.52%
40	Herbert	4,463	0.50%
41	Samuel	4,399	0.49%
42	Leonard	4,328	0.49%
43	Alfred	4,278	0.48%
44	Michael	4,210	0.47%
45	Elmer	3,936	0.44%
46	Andrew	3,723	0.42%
47	Leo	3,621	0.41%
48	Norman	3,609	0.41%
49	Bernard	3,476	0.39%
50	Peter	3,370	0.38%

United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.

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