Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Connecticut, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,078
2	Helen	698
3	Anna	421
4	Margaret	363
5	Dorothy	343
6	Rose	318
7	Elizabeth	295
8	Ruth	286
9	Josephine	250
10	Frances	238
11	Lillian	199
12	Florence	198
13	Marion	172
14	Ann	170
15	Catherine	169
16	Eleanor	162
17	Alice	157
17	Mildred	157
19	Evelyn	150
20	Marie	143
21	Anne	142
22	Doris	135
23	Jennie	126
23	Louise	126
23	Virginia	126
26	Irene	125
27	Grace	120
28	Sophie	113
29	Edith	110
30	Julia	109
31	Gertrude	108
32	Stella	105
33	Ethel	95
34	Beatrice	94
35	Elsie	92
35	Jean	92
37	Lucy	91
38	Katherine	89
38	Marjorie	89
40	Pauline	88
40	Rita	88
42	Barbara	85
43	Esther	83
44	Edna	81
45	Jane	79
46	Gladys	77
47	Bertha	73
48	Theresa	71
49	Antoinette	70
50	Olga	69

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	993
2	Joseph	737
3	William	556
4	Edward	416
5	Frank	387
6	George	365
7	Robert	342
8	James	336
9	Charles	323
10	Anthony	240
11	Michael	230
12	Walter	218
13	Stanley	212
14	Henry	207
15	Louis	200
16	Thomas	189
17	Francis	180
18	Raymond	173
19	Albert	170
20	Arthur	148
21	Richard	145
22	Peter	144
23	Harry	124
24	Paul	121
25	Andrew	112
26	Stephen	105
27	Frederick	99
27	Ralph	99
29	Vincent	97
30	Harold	95
31	Donald	94
32	Alfred	93
32	Ernest	93
34	Daniel	82
35	Carl	79
35	Nicholas	79
37	Fred	78
38	David	76
39	Kenneth	74
40	Howard	72
41	Samuel	68
42	Philip	64
42	Russell	64
44	Bernard	53
45	Norman	51
46	Benjamin	50
46	Theodore	50
48	Alexander	49
48	Eugene	49
48	Herbert	49