Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	200
2	Margaret	140
3	Dorothy	129
4	Helen	106
5	Ruth	92
6	Elizabeth	89
7	Evelyn	58
8	Frances	51
9	Louise	46
9	Virginia	46
11	Thelma	44
12	Anna	43
12	Mildred	43
14	Catherine	42
14	Doris	42
16	Alice	41
17	Florence	38
18	Edith	32
19	Lillian	30
19	Marie	30
21	Katherine	26
22	Ethel	25
23	Edna	24
24	Jane	23
25	Audrey	22
25	Gertrude	22
25	Jean	22
25	Rita	22
29	Martha	21
30	Eleanor	19
30	Ellen	19
30	Gladys	19
33	Josephine	18
34	Anne	17
34	Grace	17
34	Marjorie	17
37	Bernice	16
38	Betty	15
38	Esther	15
38	Marion	15
38	Rose	15
38	Vivian	15
43	Hilda	14
43	Kathryn	14
43	Lois	14
43	Marguerite	14
47	Sarah	13
48	Kathleen	12
48	Mabel	12
50	Charlotte	11

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	189
2	William	180
3	James	145
4	Joseph	109
5	Robert	107
6	Charles	95
7	George	85
8	Edward	48
9	Francis	42
9	Raymond	42
9	Richard	42
12	Frank	40
12	Harry	40
14	Thomas	37
15	Walter	31
16	David	29
17	Henry	28
18	Bernard	27
19	Earl	23
20	Arthur	22
21	Donald	21
22	Albert	20
22	Paul	20
24	Clarence	19
24	Lawrence	19
24	Louis	19
27	Ernest	18
27	Norman	18
27	Ralph	18
30	Frederick	17
30	Philip	17
32	Herbert	15
33	Harold	14
33	Jack	14
33	Samuel	14
36	Alfred	13
36	Elmer	13
36	Leonard	13
36	Vincent	13
40	Alvin	12
40	Carl	12
40	Daniel	12
40	Leroy	12
40	Melvin	12
40	Milton	12
46	Andrew	11
46	Gilbert	11
46	Lewis	11
46	Stanley	11
50	Chester	10