Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Illinois, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,287
2	Helen	2,578
3	Dorothy	2,107
4	Margaret	1,493
5	Ruth	1,478
6	Mildred	1,167
7	Frances	975
8	Virginia	964
9	Marie	941
10	Florence	908
11	Evelyn	896
12	Anna	841
13	Lillian	762
14	Irene	735
15	Elizabeth	700
16	Rose	696
17	Bernice	664
18	Lucille	653
19	Eleanor	629
20	Josephine	626
21	Alice	610
22	Catherine	509
23	Ann	459
24	Jean	456
25	Grace	449
26	Marjorie	431
27	Louise	404
28	Edna	402
29	Martha	400
30	Anne	390
30	Esther	390
30	Gertrude	390
30	Marion	390
34	Gladys	370
35	Edith	365
36	Ethel	358
37	Betty	357
37	Doris	357
39	Stella	350
40	Genevieve	339
41	Lois	327
42	Hazel	322
43	Elsie	310
43	Jane	310
45	Pauline	308
46	Clara	294
47	Charlotte	285
48	June	283
49	Agnes	279
49	Violet	279

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,095
2	William	2,354
3	Robert	2,120
4	Joseph	1,655
5	Edward	1,631
6	James	1,542
7	George	1,472
8	Charles	1,441
9	Frank	1,181
10	Walter	1,014
11	Harold	870
12	Raymond	831
13	Paul	702
14	Richard	670
15	Harry	621
16	Arthur	616
17	Donald	599
18	Thomas	591
19	Henry	574
20	Albert	568
21	Stanley	541
22	Carl	487
23	Ralph	485
24	Kenneth	467
25	Louis	451
26	Howard	392
27	Fred	390
28	Earl	352
29	Anthony	347
30	Francis	346
31	Clarence	345
32	Eugene	329
33	Roy	327
34	Lawrence	323
35	Leonard	318
36	Elmer	309
37	Jack	300
38	Russell	293
39	Chester	282
40	Bernard	270
41	Herbert	264
42	Peter	253
43	Leo	252
44	Michael	250
45	Edwin	246
46	Alfred	234
47	David	233
48	Melvin	232
49	Theodore	231
50	Joe	227