Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1916

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1916 were Mary for girls (2,754 babies) and John for boys (2,405). Social Security records list 62,333 babies born in Massachusetts in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1916

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

Girls

Stasia: 28 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Stacia: 20 babies, 11× the national rate
Yvette: 20 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 109 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Rita: 684 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Gilda: 21 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Cecile: 65 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Constance: 118 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Yvonne: 57 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Claire: 114 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 17 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Antone: 65 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Sumner: 16 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Armand: 73 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Domenic: 28 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Hector: 21 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Guido: 20 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lucien: 31 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Romeo: 24 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Gaetano: 15 babies, 6× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	2,754	–	1
2	Helen	1,473	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,091	–	3
4	Margaret	883	–	4
5	Ruth	863	–	5
6	Rita	684	↑2	67
7	Anna	653	–	7
8	Alice	634	↓2	13
9	Elizabeth	623	–	8
10	Eleanor	554	↑2	27
11	Rose	507	↓1	15
12	Frances	494	↑5	9
13	Florence	490	–	14
14	Lillian	479	↓3	16
15	Doris	475	↑4	32
16	Catherine	450	↓2	20
17	Evelyn	447	↓2	11
18	Mildred	420	↓2	6
19	Marion	411	↑2	47
20	Virginia	407	↑2	10
21	Josephine	402	↓1	21
22	Irene	389	↓4	17
23	Barbara	384	↑1	74
24	Gertrude	362	↑1	35
25	Marie	360	↓2	12
26	Louise	326	–	18
27	Anne	302	↑5	53
28	Edith	291	↓1	28
29	Marjorie	271	↑1	37
30	Beatrice	270	↓2	38
31	Grace	267	–	26
32	Phyllis	257	↑7	95
33	Esther	236	↓4	34
34	Jennie	232	↓1	79
35	Edna	221	↑1	19
36	Agnes	213	↓1	50
37	Ethel	210	↓3	25
38	Stella	205	–	63
39	Ann	199	↑6	40
40	Pauline	196	–	33
41	Sophie	194	↑1	>100
42	Bertha	192	↑1	49
43	Julia	185	↑1	46
44	Katherine	185	↓3	51
45	Marguerite	181	↑2	78
46	Gladys	171	↓9	22
47	Jean	171	↓1	45
48	Charlotte	170	new	80
49	Eva	163	–	55
50	Elsie	148	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	2,405	–	1
2	Joseph	1,662	–	5
3	William	1,468	–	2
4	James	986	↑1	3
5	Robert	982	↑1	4
6	George	979	↓2	7
7	Charles	903	↑1	6
8	Edward	897	↓1	8
9	Frank	623	–	9
10	Francis	606	–	31
11	Thomas	601	–	10
12	Walter	565	–	11
13	Arthur	557	–	18
14	Albert	497	–	17
15	Richard	448	↑2	15
16	Paul	444	–	12
17	Henry	438	↓2	14
18	Raymond	389	–	16
19	Stanley	388	↑2	34
20	Anthony	344	–	37
21	Louis	327	↑1	22
22	Harold	323	↓3	13
23	Alfred	298	–	43
24	Frederick	274	↑1	52
25	Donald	254	↑1	20
26	Ralph	252	↓2	21
27	David	246	↑4	28
28	Michael	243	–	44
29	Leo	238	–	47
30	Harry	237	–	19
31	Norman	218	↑5	48
32	Peter	213	–	50
33	Ernest	211	↓6	36
34	Daniel	189	↑1	55
35	Kenneth	173	↑5	27
36	Philip	171	↓2	70
37	Bernard	170	↑2	49
38	Herbert	165	↓5	40
39	Lawrence	164	↓2	38
40	Carl	162	↑5	23
41	Vincent	156	↑3	67
42	Chester	148	↑1	54
43	Russell	146	↓1	51
44	Leonard	145	↑2	42
45	Manuel	144	↓4	>100
46	Eugene	142	new	39
47	Roland	140	↑3	>100
48	Theodore	140	new	65
49	Howard	127	↓1	25
50	Samuel	126	↓12	41

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