Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,754
2	Helen	1,473
3	Dorothy	1,091
4	Margaret	883
5	Ruth	863
6	Rita	684
7	Anna	653
8	Alice	634
9	Elizabeth	623
10	Eleanor	554
11	Rose	507
12	Frances	494
13	Florence	490
14	Lillian	479
15	Doris	475
16	Catherine	450
17	Evelyn	447
18	Mildred	420
19	Marion	411
20	Virginia	407
21	Josephine	402
22	Irene	389
23	Barbara	384
24	Gertrude	362
25	Marie	360
26	Louise	326
27	Anne	302
28	Edith	291
29	Marjorie	271
30	Beatrice	270
31	Grace	267
32	Phyllis	257
33	Esther	236
34	Jennie	232
35	Edna	221
36	Agnes	213
37	Ethel	210
38	Stella	205
39	Ann	199
40	Pauline	196
41	Sophie	194
42	Bertha	192
43	Julia	185
43	Katherine	185
45	Marguerite	181
46	Gladys	171
46	Jean	171
48	Charlotte	170
49	Eva	163
50	Elsie	148

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,405
2	Joseph	1,662
3	William	1,468
4	James	986
5	Robert	982
6	George	979
7	Charles	903
8	Edward	897
9	Frank	623
10	Francis	606
11	Thomas	601
12	Walter	565
13	Arthur	557
14	Albert	497
15	Richard	448
16	Paul	444
17	Henry	438
18	Raymond	389
19	Stanley	388
20	Anthony	344
21	Louis	327
22	Harold	323
23	Alfred	298
24	Frederick	274
25	Donald	254
26	Ralph	252
27	David	246
28	Michael	243
29	Leo	238
30	Harry	237
31	Norman	218
32	Peter	213
33	Ernest	211
34	Daniel	189
35	Kenneth	173
36	Philip	171
37	Bernard	170
38	Herbert	165
39	Lawrence	164
40	Carl	162
41	Vincent	156
42	Chester	148
43	Russell	146
44	Leonard	145
45	Manuel	144
46	Eugene	142
47	Roland	140
47	Theodore	140
49	Howard	127
50	Samuel	126