Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Ohio, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,736
2	Helen	2,253
3	Dorothy	1,718
4	Ruth	1,673
5	Margaret	1,509
6	Virginia	906
7	Mildred	882
8	Elizabeth	833
9	Anna	758
10	Evelyn	666
11	Betty	644
12	Frances	638
13	Florence	602
14	Martha	571
15	Alice	567
16	Marie	563
17	Rose	523
18	Irene	492
19	Catherine	454
20	Eleanor	448
21	Thelma	445
22	Marjorie	439
23	Edna	393
24	Esther	389
25	Lucille	386
26	Ann	382
26	Lillian	382
28	Doris	381
29	Josephine	377
30	Kathryn	366
31	Pauline	361
32	Louise	339
33	Jean	334
34	Grace	332
35	Edith	327
36	Ethel	322
37	Hazel	321
38	Jane	316
39	Clara	314
40	Gladys	311
41	Gertrude	297
42	Katherine	263
43	Julia	255
44	Anne	253
45	Lois	241
45	Wilma	241
47	Elsie	238
47	Marian	238
49	Agnes	235
50	Bertha	214

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,558
2	Robert	2,475
3	William	2,024
4	Charles	1,485
5	James	1,426
6	Joseph	1,170
7	George	1,159
8	Paul	951
9	Edward	881
10	Richard	865
11	Frank	802
12	Harold	729
13	Donald	677
14	Carl	560
15	Walter	554
16	Ralph	546
17	Raymond	532
18	Albert	499
19	Harry	484
20	Thomas	472
21	Howard	459
22	Kenneth	398
23	Arthur	386
24	Jack	354
25	Clarence	353
26	Louis	331
27	Earl	319
28	Stanley	297
29	Henry	295
30	David	286
31	Lawrence	269
32	Eugene	251
33	Fred	244
34	Elmer	239
35	Joe	221
36	Anthony	220
36	Roy	220
38	Russell	217
39	Herbert	216
40	Francis	212
41	Leonard	211
42	Steve	210
43	Norman	206
44	Andrew	197
45	Ernest	196
46	Bernard	186
47	Frederick	182
48	Edwin	181
49	Chester	180
50	Michael	173