Popular baby names in Florida, 1916

The most popular baby names in Florida in 1916 were Mary for girls (537 babies) and James for boys (536). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 16,195 babies born in Florida in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Florida in 1916

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

Girls

Mercedes: 18 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Allie: 23 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Willie: 139 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Essie: 35 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Rosa: 66 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Carmen: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Mamie: 51 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lillie: 84 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Susie: 39 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Ernestine: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Nathaniel: 39 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 16 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Mack: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Willie: 200 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Lonnie: 19 babies, 4× the national rate
Horace: 35 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Johnie: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Charlie: 72 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Eddie: 39 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Leroy: 76 babies, 3.3× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	537	–	1
2	Dorothy	192	↑1	3
3	Annie	164	↓1	36
4	Margaret	149	–	4
5	Ruth	144	–	5
6	Louise	143	↑8	18
7	Mildred	142	↑3	6
8	Thelma	142	↑7	29
9	Elizabeth	140	↓3	8
10	Willie	139	↓1	73
11	Helen	127	↓4	2
12	Ruby	118	–	23
13	Edna	107	↓5	19
14	Marie	100	↑5	12
15	Alice	99	↑2	13
16	Evelyn	93	↓3	11
17	Ethel	92	↑3	25
18	Frances	86	↓7	9
19	Gladys	84	↓3	22
20	Lillie	84	↑5	88
21	Lillian	78	↑1	16
22	Doris	77	↑8	32
23	Lucille	77	↑13	30
24	Edith	75	↑2	28
25	Hazel	75	↓7	31
26	Julia	75	↑6	46
27	Lois	74	↑6	43
28	Emma	69	↑16	41
29	Martha	68	↓2	24
30	Sarah	68	↓2	52
31	Bessie	67	↓8	56
32	Pauline	66	↑18	33
33	Rosa	66	↓9	>100
34	Virginia	66	↓5	10
35	Bernice	65	↑4	42
36	Beatrice	62	↑1	38
37	Nellie	61	new	61
38	Jessie	60	new	68
39	Ida	59	↑1	54
40	Eva	58	↓2	55
41	Clara	57	↓10	39
42	Catherine	56	new	20
43	Josephine	55	↓22	21
44	Florence	53	↓2	14
45	Alma	52	↓4	70
46	Mamie	51	new	>100
47	Juanita	50	new	90
48	Minnie	50	↓14	71
49	Ella	49	↓4	81
50	Anna	47	↓7	7

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	James	536	–	3
2	William	420	–	2
3	John	403	–	1
4	Robert	270	–	4
5	George	202	↑1	7
6	Willie	200	↓1	30
7	Charles	182	–	6
8	Henry	178	↑1	14
9	Joseph	132	↓1	5
10	Frank	130	↑1	9
11	Thomas	129	↓1	10
12	Edward	112	↑2	8
13	David	102	↑2	28
14	Richard	95	↓1	15
15	Joe	90	↑3	35
16	Arthur	89	↑8	18
17	Albert	85	↑2	17
18	Walter	80	↓6	11
19	Clarence	79	↑1	24
20	Leroy	76	↓3	63
21	Samuel	76	↑2	41
22	Ernest	75	↓1	36
23	Charlie	72	↑11	68
24	Harry	71	↓8	19
25	Fred	70	↓3	29
26	Ralph	64	–	21
27	Jack	61	↓2	26
28	Raymond	59	↑4	16
29	Eugene	56	↑15	39
30	Louis	55	↓1	22
31	Herbert	52	↓3	40
32	Paul	51	↑4	12
33	Harold	50	↓6	13
34	Roy	45	↓4	33
35	Clyde	44	new	62
36	Howard	44	↑10	25
37	Jesse	43	new	77
38	Andrew	41	new	46
39	Carl	41	↓8	23
40	Earl	40	↓5	32
41	Eddie	39	↓8	>100
42	Nathaniel	39	new	>100
43	Cecil	38	↓4	80
44	Sidney	37	new	95
45	Woodrow	37	new	64
46	Herman	36	↑4	56
47	Sam	36	↓9	74
48	Horace	35	new	>100
49	Johnnie	35	↓9	>100
50	Leonard	35	new	42

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