Popular baby names in Colorado, 1916

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1916 were Mary for girls (457 babies) and John for boys (397). Social Security records list 12,993 babies born in Colorado in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1916

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

Girls

Leah: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Freda: 27 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Lydia: 29 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Della: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Rachel: 25 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Esther: 99 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Maria: 20 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Wilma: 44 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Maxine: 36 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Shirley: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Jose: 35 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Pete: 21 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nick: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Dan: 18 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Gene: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Tony: 30 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Manuel: 29 babies, 4× the national rate
Merle: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Tom: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Joe: 93 babies, 2.7× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	457	–	1
2	Helen	280	–	2
3	Dorothy	227	–	3
4	Margaret	208	–	4
5	Ruth	202	–	5
6	Frances	122	–	9
7	Virginia	121	↑2	10
8	Mildred	115	↑5	6
9	Elizabeth	110	↑3	8
10	Rose	106	–	15
11	Esther	99	↑5	34
12	Evelyn	98	↓4	11
13	Alice	93	↓6	13
14	Florence	90	↑3	14
15	Marie	87	–	12
16	Anna	76	↓5	7
17	Edith	75	↑1	28
18	Lois	74	↑2	43
19	Edna	72	↑7	19
20	Josephine	69	↓6	21
21	Thelma	69	↑9	29
22	Betty	68	↑7	44
23	Doris	66	↑13	32
24	Irene	64	↑9	17
25	Louise	63	↑3	18
26	Elsie	57	↓2	48
27	Lucille	55	↓4	30
28	Marjorie	55	↓9	37
29	Pauline	55	↑3	33
30	Bertha	54	↑10	49
31	Martha	54	–	24
32	Eleanor	51	↓5	27
33	Hazel	51	↓11	31
34	Eva	50	↑15	55
35	Ethel	49	–	25
36	Clara	46	↑3	39
37	Gladys	46	↓12	22
38	Julia	46	new	46
39	Lillian	46	new	16
40	Ann	44	↑1	40
41	Emma	44	↓7	41
42	Jean	44	↑2	45
43	Wilma	44	↑7	82
44	Grace	41	↓23	26
45	Ruby	40	new	23
46	Vera	39	new	66
47	Catherine	38	↓9	20
48	Katherine	38	↓6	51
49	Nellie	38	↓2	61
50	Gertrude	37	↓13	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	397	–	1
2	Robert	284	↑1	4
3	William	281	↓1	2
4	James	213	↑1	3
5	Charles	201	↑1	6
6	George	199	↓2	7
7	Frank	136	–	9
8	Joseph	113	–	5
9	Edward	111	↑2	8
10	Harold	106	↓1	13
11	Albert	99	↓1	17
12	Raymond	95	↑4	16
13	Richard	94	↓1	15
14	Joe	93	↑1	35
15	Paul	90	↑4	12
16	Walter	90	↑8	11
17	Jack	86	↑1	26
18	Thomas	80	↑3	10
19	Donald	79	↓6	20
20	Harry	78	↓3	19
21	Carl	74	↑2	23
22	Ralph	74	↓2	21
23	Henry	72	↓1	14
24	Fred	68	↓10	29
25	Kenneth	65	↑1	27
26	Arthur	62	↓1	18
27	Louis	62	↑5	22
28	Ernest	60	↑2	36
29	Clarence	59	↓2	24
30	David	54	↓1	28
31	Earl	51	↑3	32
32	Lawrence	51	↑8	38
33	Howard	50	↓5	25
34	Eugene	49	↑5	39
35	Roy	49	↓2	33
36	Elmer	44	↓5	45
37	Lloyd	40	↓1	58
38	Jose	35	new	>100
39	Herbert	34	↑3	40
40	Leonard	34	↓3	42
41	Alfred	32	↓6	43
42	Francis	30	↑2	31
43	Tony	30	↑3	>100
44	Manuel	29	new	>100
45	Edwin	28	new	53
46	Clifford	27	new	61
47	Daniel	26	new	55
48	Everett	26	new	91
49	Herman	25	new	56
50	Leo	25	new	47

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