Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Missouri, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,735
2	Dorothy	1,075
3	Helen	1,026
4	Ruth	726
5	Mildred	685
6	Margaret	633
7	Virginia	586
8	Marie	464
9	Frances	411
10	Ruby	379
11	Anna	378
12	Thelma	376
13	Hazel	326
14	Edna	317
15	Lucille	289
16	Elizabeth	287
17	Gladys	269
18	Evelyn	268
19	Martha	265
20	Alice	251
21	Lillian	249
22	Opal	248
23	Ethel	247
24	Wilma	244
25	Florence	240
26	Edith	221
26	Marjorie	221
28	Irene	220
29	Louise	214
30	Bernice	210
31	Pauline	208
32	Grace	205
33	Clara	183
34	Lois	180
35	Rose	171
36	Esther	170
37	Josephine	164
38	Catherine	160
38	Doris	160
40	Emma	158
41	Juanita	157
42	Gertrude	149
43	Nellie	148
43	Viola	148
45	Velma	143
46	Alma	142
46	Leona	142
48	Betty	140
49	Mabel	139
49	Pearl	139

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,287
2	John	1,239
3	James	1,067
4	Charles	911
5	Robert	850
6	George	594
7	Joseph	452
8	Harold	442
9	Edward	426
10	Paul	408
11	Raymond	382
12	Frank	347
13	Walter	313
14	Thomas	312
15	Harry	301
16	Richard	294
17	Arthur	283
18	Carl	282
19	Ralph	271
20	Kenneth	268
21	Roy	262
22	Henry	249
23	Albert	248
24	Clarence	247
25	Earl	242
26	Elmer	206
27	Howard	202
28	Jack	198
29	Eugene	191
29	Fred	191
31	Donald	177
32	Francis	164
33	Louis	161
34	Lawrence	160
35	Joe	157
36	David	155
37	Virgil	148
38	Leonard	146
39	Herbert	145
40	Melvin	137
40	Russell	137
42	Lloyd	133
43	Lester	128
43	Woodrow	128
45	Ernest	127
45	Floyd	127
47	Clyde	125
47	Marvin	125
49	Ray	122
50	Clifford	117