Name Yearbook

Top baby names in South Carolina, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,243
2	Annie	566
3	Ruth	387
4	Elizabeth	367
5	Louise	363
6	Margaret	358
7	Sarah	265
8	Ruby	259
9	Helen	247
10	Lillie	234
11	Frances	229
12	Carrie	222
13	Ethel	214
14	Rosa	209
15	Marie	208
16	Edna	206
17	Virginia	205
18	Martha	203
19	Mattie	200
20	Willie	196
21	Dorothy	188
22	Lucille	182
23	Bessie	181
24	Evelyn	174
25	Hattie	170
26	Alice	168
27	Jessie	165
28	Gladys	161
29	Maggie	155
30	Anna	151
30	Emma	151
30	Mildred	151
33	Thelma	148
34	Julia	147
35	Bertha	145
36	Eva	144
36	Lula	144
38	Janie	142
39	Edith	133
40	Mamie	130
41	Ella	129
41	Grace	129
41	Lillian	129
44	Ida	125
45	Sara	124
46	Minnie	122
46	Rebecca	122
48	Clara	121
49	Beatrice	114
49	Lois	114

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,511
2	John	988
3	William	892
4	Robert	599
5	Willie	593
6	George	460
7	Henry	367
8	Thomas	364
9	Charles	345
10	Joseph	253
11	Edward	245
12	Frank	211
13	Walter	198
14	David	193
15	Joe	173
15	Samuel	173
17	Richard	166
18	Fred	159
19	Arthur	157
19	Paul	157
21	Leroy	153
22	Charlie	151
23	Clarence	147
24	Johnnie	138
25	Woodrow	136
26	Harold	135
27	Ernest	123
28	Eugene	113
29	Harry	110
30	Albert	105
31	Sam	104
32	Marion	101
33	Jack	100
34	Benjamin	98
34	Roy	98
36	Louis	93
37	Eddie	92
38	Jessie	88
39	Luther	87
40	Carl	85
41	Lawrence	83
42	Ralph	82
43	Ben	77
44	Daniel	76
45	Herbert	74
46	Lee	72
46	Lewis	72
48	Raymond	71
49	Andrew	70
49	Clyde	70