Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Michigan, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,774
2	Helen	1,485
3	Dorothy	1,214
4	Margaret	1,012
5	Ruth	868
6	Virginia	707
7	Elizabeth	514
8	Mildred	509
9	Frances	489
10	Evelyn	474
11	Irene	465
12	Marie	455
13	Florence	431
14	Eleanor	402
15	Alice	384
16	Doris	365
17	Anna	361
18	Lillian	355
19	Betty	330
20	Gertrude	329
21	Jean	323
22	Rose	313
23	Josephine	310
24	Marion	304
25	Lucille	301
26	Esther	296
27	Bernice	289
28	Marjorie	283
29	Beatrice	275
30	Genevieve	270
31	Grace	268
32	Ann	256
33	June	248
34	Marian	242
35	Stella	238
36	Martha	227
37	Gladys	225
38	Catherine	222
38	Louise	222
40	Edith	216
41	Clara	215
41	Edna	215
43	Jane	206
44	Leona	198
45	Julia	196
46	Hazel	195
46	Pauline	195
48	Katherine	194
49	Geraldine	189
50	Anne	188

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,614
2	Robert	1,421
3	William	1,233
4	Edward	832
5	George	791
6	Joseph	787
7	Charles	704
8	James	671
9	Donald	644
10	Walter	568
11	Frank	567
12	Harold	528
13	Richard	455
14	Raymond	452
15	Arthur	426
16	Henry	408
17	Stanley	336
18	Harry	335
19	Kenneth	314
20	Paul	309
21	Carl	297
22	Jack	292
23	Albert	287
24	Clarence	261
25	Thomas	256
26	Howard	246
27	Louis	236
28	Leonard	233
28	Ralph	233
30	Lawrence	231
31	Gerald	224
32	Earl	222
33	Leo	209
34	Bernard	200
35	Francis	196
36	Roy	195
37	Fred	194
38	Frederick	193
39	Russell	189
40	Chester	182
41	Peter	172
42	Elmer	170
43	Anthony	168
44	Edwin	167
45	Norman	163
46	Alfred	161
46	David	161
48	Theodore	151
49	Lloyd	143
50	Ernest	138