Popular baby names in Maryland, 1916

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1916 were Mary for girls (961 babies) and William for boys (772). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,261 babies born in Maryland in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1916

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

Girls

Katharine: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Hilda: 99 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Catherine: 302 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Rosalie: 27 babies, 3× the national rate
Naomi: 55 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Cecelia: 28 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Etta: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Estella: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Audrey: 44 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Carolyn: 30 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 34 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Ellsworth: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Christopher: 15 babies, 5× the national rate
Irvin: 34 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Preston: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Roland: 40 babies, 2.9× the national rate
August: 22 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Nelson: 20 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Wilson: 25 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Charles: 618 babies, 2.3× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	961	–	1
2	Margaret	572	–	4
3	Dorothy	498	–	3
4	Helen	447	–	2
5	Ruth	338	–	5
6	Anna	334	–	7
7	Elizabeth	310	–	8
8	Catherine	302	–	20
9	Mildred	251	↑1	6
10	Virginia	217	↑4	10
11	Marie	216	–	12
12	Evelyn	211	↓3	11
13	Lillian	184	–	16
14	Frances	171	↓2	9
15	Doris	156	↑2	32
16	Thelma	137	↓1	29
17	Alice	127	↓1	13
18	Edna	127	↑1	19
19	Ethel	127	↑1	25
20	Louise	121	↓2	18
21	Grace	119	↑2	26
22	Edith	107	↑6	28
23	Eleanor	106	↑7	27
24	Florence	106	↑1	14
25	Sarah	106	↑10	52
26	Katherine	104	↑1	51
27	Emma	100	↓6	41
28	Elsie	99	↑3	48
29	Hilda	99	↑5	>100
30	Agnes	97	↓1	50
31	Rose	95	↓5	15
32	Gertrude	93	↓8	35
33	Gladys	92	↓11	22
34	Hazel	87	↑3	31
35	Irene	83	↑7	17
36	Bertha	79	↑2	49
37	Martha	78	↓5	24
38	Josephine	77	↑6	21
39	Clara	75	↑1	39
40	Esther	75	↓4	34
41	Pauline	75	↓8	33
42	Ida	72	↓1	54
43	Charlotte	65	↑3	80
44	Beatrice	63	↓5	38
45	Pearl	60	new	57
46	Mabel	59	new	65
47	Laura	58	↓2	64
48	Myrtle	57	↑2	58
49	Naomi	55	new	>100
50	Bernice	54	new	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	William	772	–	2
2	John	732	–	1
3	Charles	618	–	6
4	James	532	–	3
5	Joseph	404	↑1	5
6	George	396	↓1	7
7	Robert	350	–	4
8	Edward	313	–	8
9	Thomas	210	↑1	10
10	Harry	167	↓1	19
11	Walter	158	↑1	11
12	Frank	155	↓1	9
13	Paul	155	–	12
14	Albert	152	↑1	17
15	Howard	124	↓1	25
16	Richard	121	↑1	15
17	Henry	117	↓1	14
18	Samuel	113	↑2	41
19	Louis	101	↑4	22
20	Francis	99	↓2	31
21	Arthur	96	–	18
22	Clarence	94	–	24
23	Earl	93	↑9	32
24	Raymond	92	↓5	16
25	David	90	↑2	28
26	Melvin	80	↓2	57
27	Ralph	80	↑9	21
28	Frederick	74	↓2	52
29	Elmer	72	↑1	45
30	Harold	70	↓5	13
31	Ernest	67	↑10	36
32	Bernard	66	↓1	49
33	Donald	65	↓5	20
34	Leonard	65	↑16	42
35	Carl	63	↓1	23
36	Leroy	60	↑8	63
37	Vernon	58	↑11	75
38	Norman	57	↓9	48
39	Stanley	57	new	34
40	Benjamin	56	↓3	79
41	Edwin	56	↑5	53
42	Lawrence	56	↓3	38
43	Daniel	52	–	55
44	Andrew	51	↓2	46
45	Herbert	51	↓5	40
46	Milton	50	↓13	72
47	Herman	49	↓12	56
48	Theodore	46	new	65
49	Kenneth	45	↓11	27
50	Philip	44	new	70

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