Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Tennessee, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,723
2	Margaret	490
3	Ruby	469
4	Ruth	462
5	Mildred	403
6	Dorothy	383
7	Helen	342
8	Annie	338
9	Elizabeth	324
10	Martha	317
11	Frances	315
12	Gladys	312
13	Virginia	303
14	Louise	289
15	Edna	288
16	Hazel	266
17	Anna	255
18	Thelma	239
19	Willie	238
20	Pauline	235
21	Edith	199
22	Evelyn	193
23	Sarah	192
24	Minnie	185
25	Ethel	184
26	Mattie	183
27	Lillian	180
27	Lucille	180
29	Bessie	177
30	Clara	175
31	Katherine	167
32	Marie	166
33	Alice	159
34	Irene	155
35	Grace	154
36	Jessie	151
37	Lillie	148
38	Georgia	143
39	Nellie	142
40	Emma	132
41	Myrtle	131
41	Pearl	131
43	Alma	129
44	Eva	128
45	Beatrice	125
46	Bertha	122
47	Beulah	117
48	Ella	112
49	Ida	110
50	Geneva	108

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	1,647
2	William	1,300
3	John	1,079
4	Robert	759
5	Charles	538
6	George	491
7	Thomas	388
8	Willie	270
9	Henry	230
9	Walter	230
11	Frank	229
12	Edward	216
12	Roy	216
14	Paul	214
15	Joe	212
16	Fred	209
17	Carl	199
18	Joseph	198
19	Clarence	192
20	Howard	180
21	Albert	175
22	Earl	174
23	Harry	146
24	Jack	145
25	Charlie	142
25	Raymond	142
27	Clyde	140
28	Richard	139
29	David	136
30	Woodrow	135
31	Ralph	130
32	Samuel	126
33	Arthur	116
34	Jesse	113
35	Ernest	112
36	Claude	100
36	Elmer	100
38	Luther	93
39	Eugene	92
39	Harold	92
39	Herman	92
42	Cecil	89
42	Willard	89
44	Jessie	88
45	Herbert	87
46	Hubert	86
47	Ray	85
48	Leonard	84
49	Floyd	81
50	Kenneth	80