Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,091
2	Dorothy	754
3	Margaret	585
4	Helen	584
5	Ruth	417
6	Frances	396
7	Virginia	388
8	Evelyn	298
9	Alice	293
10	Elizabeth	281
11	Marie	246
12	Marjorie	241
13	Rose	229
14	Eleanor	224
15	Barbara	223
16	Josephine	217
17	Florence	216
18	Betty	209
19	Jean	197
20	Doris	190
21	Mildred	189
22	June	173
23	Grace	167
23	Louise	167
25	Lillian	151
26	Bernice	148
27	Edith	147
27	Thelma	147
29	Lois	146
30	Lucille	145
31	Anna	139
32	Gladys	138
33	Elsie	133
34	Jane	132
35	Irene	130
36	Esther	129
37	Catherine	127
37	Katherine	127
39	Marion	120
40	Edna	118
41	Marian	114
42	Ann	113
43	Hazel	111
44	Patricia	105
45	Gertrude	97
46	Pauline	96
47	Ethel	95
48	Martha	90
49	Kathryn	88
49	Marguerite	88

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,086
2	Robert	903
3	William	902
4	George	646
5	James	593
6	Charles	474
7	Frank	466
8	Joseph	352
9	Jack	349
10	Edward	342
11	Richard	299
12	Donald	253
13	Albert	252
14	Arthur	236
14	Walter	236
16	Henry	231
17	Paul	227
18	Harold	225
19	Raymond	215
20	Thomas	209
21	Joe	208
22	Harry	200
23	Fred	167
24	Ralph	164
25	Ernest	161
26	Louis	160
27	Manuel	139
28	David	136
29	Kenneth	135
30	Alfred	130
30	Carl	130
32	Roy	125
33	Lawrence	123
34	Francis	119
35	Clarence	114
36	Howard	112
37	Eugene	110
38	Norman	107
39	Earl	105
39	Stanley	105
41	Edwin	97
42	Elmer	94
43	Lloyd	91
44	Herbert	89
45	Peter	88
46	Daniel	80
47	Leonard	77
47	Philip	77
49	Tony	76
50	Leo	71