Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Minnesota, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Helen	819
2	Mary	756
3	Dorothy	720
4	Margaret	710
5	Ruth	516
6	Evelyn	472
7	Mildred	345
8	Florence	339
9	Alice	334
10	Irene	333
11	Marie	298
12	Lucille	293
13	Frances	269
14	Bernice	268
15	Gladys	255
16	Doris	251
17	Lorraine	247
18	Lillian	242
19	Esther	227
20	Elizabeth	226
21	Virginia	222
22	Eleanor	205
23	Rose	202
24	Marjorie	189
25	Lois	187
26	Hazel	185
27	Edna	174
27	Marion	174
29	Agnes	173
30	Gertrude	169
31	Anna	163
32	Ethel	162
33	Elsie	159
33	Grace	159
35	June	158
36	Violet	157
37	Ann	155
38	Myrtle	150
39	Marian	149
40	Jean	148
40	Leona	148
42	Edith	142
43	Viola	140
44	Martha	132
45	Catherine	129
46	Josephine	127
47	Clara	125
48	Betty	124
48	Vivian	124
50	Genevieve	119

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	903
2	Robert	813
3	William	586
4	Donald	526
5	George	491
6	James	384
7	Harold	382
8	Raymond	377
9	Joseph	340
10	Edward	337
11	Charles	297
12	Kenneth	289
13	Richard	283
14	Walter	279
15	Arthur	265
16	Clarence	234
16	Frank	234
18	Lloyd	199
19	Henry	197
20	Lawrence	193
21	Leonard	191
22	Paul	190
23	Carl	185
24	Ralph	178
25	Albert	176
26	Earl	174
26	Harry	174
28	Stanley	173
29	Clifford	171
30	Arnold	161
31	Thomas	153
32	Howard	152
33	Roy	151
34	Elmer	148
35	Melvin	147
36	Herbert	145
37	Vernon	144
38	Francis	140
38	Gordon	140
40	Bernard	138
41	Marvin	137
42	Norman	134
43	Ernest	132
44	Edwin	125
44	Russell	125
46	Leo	123
47	Alfred	120
48	Fred	116
49	Lester	110
50	Louis	109