Popular baby names in California, 1916

The most popular baby names in California in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,091 babies) and John for boys (1,086). Social Security records list 37,501 babies born in California in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1916

Names given at least 15 times in California that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Fumiko: 15 babies, 34.8× the national rate
Consuelo: 27 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 10× the national rate
Ramona: 41 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Carmen: 57 babies, 6× the national rate
Patricia: 105 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Aileen: 34 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Angie: 19 babies, 5× the national rate
Kay: 21 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Carol: 59 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Hiroshi: 26 babies, 28.7× the national rate
Yoshio: 24 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Shigeo: 16 babies, 22× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 16 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Masao: 20 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Salvador: 28 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Manuel: 139 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Alfonso: 20 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Louie: 30 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Alan: 21 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,091	–	1
2	Dorothy	754	–	3
3	Margaret	585	↑1	4
4	Helen	584	↓1	2
5	Ruth	417	–	5
6	Frances	396	↑1	9
7	Virginia	388	↓1	10
8	Evelyn	298	–	11
9	Alice	293	–	13
10	Elizabeth	281	–	8
11	Marie	246	–	12
12	Marjorie	241	↑6	37
13	Rose	229	↑3	15
14	Eleanor	224	–	27
15	Barbara	223	–	74
16	Josephine	217	↓3	21
17	Florence	216	↓5	14
18	Betty	209	↑1	44
19	Jean	197	↑4	45
20	Doris	190	↑6	32
21	Mildred	189	↓4	6
22	June	173	↑21	86
23	Grace	167	↑1	26
24	Louise	167	↓4	18
25	Lillian	151	↓3	16
26	Bernice	148	↓5	42
27	Edith	147	–	28
28	Thelma	147	↑9	29
29	Lois	146	↓4	43
30	Lucille	145	↑2	30
31	Anna	139	↑3	7
32	Gladys	138	↑6	22
33	Elsie	133	↑13	48
34	Jane	132	↓3	62
35	Irene	130	↓6	17
36	Esther	129	↓8	34
37	Catherine	127	↓2	20
38	Katherine	127	↓2	51
39	Marion	120	↓6	47
40	Edna	118	↓1	19
41	Marian	114	–	72
42	Ann	113	↓2	40
43	Hazel	111	↓13	31
44	Patricia	105	↑4	>100
45	Gertrude	97	new	35
46	Pauline	96	↓2	33
47	Ethel	95	↓2	25
48	Martha	90	↓6	24
49	Kathryn	88	new	60
50	Marguerite	88	new	78

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	1,086	–	1
2	Robert	903	↑1	4
3	William	902	↓1	2
4	George	646	–	7
5	James	593	–	3
6	Charles	474	↑1	6
7	Frank	466	↓1	9
8	Joseph	352	–	5
9	Jack	349	↑1	26
10	Edward	342	↓1	8
11	Richard	299	↑1	15
12	Donald	253	↑5	20
13	Albert	252	↓2	17
14	Arthur	236	–	18
15	Walter	236	–	11
16	Henry	231	↑2	14
17	Paul	227	↑3	12
18	Harold	225	↓5	13
19	Raymond	215	↑4	16
20	Thomas	209	↓4	10
21	Joe	208	↓2	35
22	Harry	200	–	19
23	Fred	167	↓2	29
24	Ralph	164	↑1	21
25	Ernest	161	↑1	36
26	Louis	160	↓2	22
27	Manuel	139	–	>100
28	David	136	↑1	28
29	Kenneth	135	↓1	27
30	Alfred	130	–	43
31	Carl	130	↑1	23
32	Roy	125	↓1	33
33	Lawrence	123	–	38
34	Francis	119	↑1	31
35	Clarence	114	↑7	24
36	Howard	112	↓2	25
37	Eugene	110	–	39
38	Norman	107	↑8	48
39	Earl	105	↑6	32
40	Stanley	105	↓2	34
41	Edwin	97	↓1	53
42	Elmer	94	↑1	45
43	Lloyd	91	↑5	58
44	Herbert	89	↓5	40
45	Peter	88	↓9	50
46	Daniel	80	new	55
47	Leonard	77	↑3	42
48	Philip	77	new	70
49	Tony	76	↓5	>100
50	Leo	71	↓1	47

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