Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	961
2	Margaret	572
3	Dorothy	498
4	Helen	447
5	Ruth	338
6	Anna	334
7	Elizabeth	310
8	Catherine	302
9	Mildred	251
10	Virginia	217
11	Marie	216
12	Evelyn	211
13	Lillian	184
14	Frances	171
15	Doris	156
16	Thelma	137
17	Alice	127
17	Edna	127
17	Ethel	127
20	Louise	121
21	Grace	119
22	Edith	107
23	Eleanor	106
23	Florence	106
23	Sarah	106
26	Katherine	104
27	Emma	100
28	Elsie	99
28	Hilda	99
30	Agnes	97
31	Rose	95
32	Gertrude	93
33	Gladys	92
34	Hazel	87
35	Irene	83
36	Bertha	79
37	Martha	78
38	Josephine	77
39	Clara	75
39	Esther	75
39	Pauline	75
42	Ida	72
43	Charlotte	65
44	Beatrice	63
45	Pearl	60
46	Mabel	59
47	Laura	58
48	Myrtle	57
49	Naomi	55
50	Bernice	54

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	772
2	John	732
3	Charles	618
4	James	532
5	Joseph	404
6	George	396
7	Robert	350
8	Edward	313
9	Thomas	210
10	Harry	167
11	Walter	158
12	Frank	155
12	Paul	155
14	Albert	152
15	Howard	124
16	Richard	121
17	Henry	117
18	Samuel	113
19	Louis	101
20	Francis	99
21	Arthur	96
22	Clarence	94
23	Earl	93
24	Raymond	92
25	David	90
26	Melvin	80
26	Ralph	80
28	Frederick	74
29	Elmer	72
30	Harold	70
31	Ernest	67
32	Bernard	66
33	Donald	65
33	Leonard	65
35	Carl	63
36	Leroy	60
37	Vernon	58
38	Norman	57
38	Stanley	57
40	Benjamin	56
40	Edwin	56
40	Lawrence	56
43	Daniel	52
44	Andrew	51
44	Herbert	51
46	Milton	50
47	Herman	49
48	Theodore	46
49	Kenneth	45
50	Philip	44