Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1916

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1916 were Mary for girls (200 babies) and John for boys (189). Social Security records list 4,337 babies born in District of Columbia in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in District of Columbia in 1916

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

Girls

Audrey: 22 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Ellen: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Rita: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Elizabeth: 89 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Thelma: 44 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Doris: 42 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jane: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Margaret: 140 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Katherine: 26 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Louise: 46 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Bernard: 27 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Francis: 42 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Philip: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate
David: 29 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Norman: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Frederick: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Harry: 40 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Joseph: 109 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	200	–	1
2	Margaret	140	↑2	4
3	Dorothy	129	↓1	3
4	Helen	106	↓1	2
5	Ruth	92	↑1	5
6	Elizabeth	89	↓1	8
7	Evelyn	58	–	11
8	Frances	51	–	9
9	Louise	46	↑3	18
10	Virginia	46	↓1	10
11	Thelma	44	↑3	29
12	Anna	43	↑3	7
13	Mildred	43	↓3	6
14	Catherine	42	↓3	20
15	Doris	42	↑2	32
16	Alice	41	↑8	13
17	Florence	38	↑5	14
18	Edith	32	↑2	28
19	Lillian	30	↓1	16
20	Marie	30	↓1	12
21	Katherine	26	new	51
22	Ethel	25	↓1	25
23	Edna	24	↑13	19
24	Jane	23	↑7	62
25	Audrey	22	new	>100
26	Gertrude	22	↓1	35
27	Jean	22	↑12	45
28	Rita	22	↑1	67
29	Martha	21	↑3	24
30	Eleanor	19	↓17	27
31	Ellen	19	new	87
32	Gladys	19	↓5	22
33	Josephine	18	↑15	21
34	Anne	17	↓1	53
35	Grace	17	↓12	26
36	Marjorie	17	↑2	37
37	Bernice	16	↓21	42
38	Betty	15	↓3	44
39	Esther	15	↓9	34
40	Marion	15	↓14	47
41	Rose	15	↓13	15
42	Vivian	15	new	77
43	Hilda	14	new	>100
44	Kathryn	14	new	60
45	Lois	14	new	43
46	Marguerite	14	↓9	78
47	Sarah	13	↓3	52
48	Kathleen	12	new	>100
49	Mabel	12	new	65
50	Charlotte	11	↓5	80

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	189	–	1
2	William	180	–	2
3	James	145	–	3
4	Joseph	109	↑2	5
5	Robert	107	↑2	4
6	Charles	95	↓2	6
7	George	85	↓2	7
8	Edward	48	↑3	8
9	Francis	42	↑4	31
10	Raymond	42	↑4	16
11	Richard	42	↓2	15
12	Frank	40	↓2	9
13	Harry	40	↑2	19
14	Thomas	37	↓6	10
15	Walter	31	↓3	11
16	David	29	↑29	28
17	Henry	28	↑2	14
18	Bernard	27	↑2	49
19	Earl	23	↑15	32
20	Arthur	22	↑2	18
21	Donald	21	new	20
22	Albert	20	↓6	17
23	Paul	20	↓6	12
24	Clarence	19	↑17	24
25	Lawrence	19	↑3	38
26	Louis	19	–	22
27	Ernest	18	–	36
28	Norman	18	↑3	48
29	Ralph	18	↓5	21
30	Frederick	17	↓12	52
31	Philip	17	↑12	70
32	Herbert	15	↓2	40
33	Harold	14	↑3	13
34	Jack	14	new	26
35	Samuel	14	↓10	41
36	Alfred	13	↓15	43
37	Elmer	13	new	45
38	Leonard	13	↓1	42
39	Vincent	13	new	67
40	Alvin	12	new	82
41	Carl	12	↓9	23
42	Daniel	12	↓9	55
43	Leroy	12	↓1	63
44	Melvin	12	↓15	57
45	Milton	12	↓6	72
46	Andrew	11	new	46
47	Gilbert	11	new	>100
48	Lewis	11	↑2	71
49	Stanley	11	new	34
50	Chester	10	new	54

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