Popular baby names in Missouri, 1916

The most popular baby names in Missouri in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,735 babies) and William for boys (1,287). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 53,451 babies born in Missouri in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Missouri in 1916

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

Girls

Glenda: 15 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Cleta: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Nadine: 58 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Chloe: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Veda: 21 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Jaunita: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Leta: 25 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Melba: 63 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Lora: 38 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jewell: 72 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Glennon: 20 babies, 28.9× the national rate
Oral: 16 babies, 7× the national rate
Cleo: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Truman: 25 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Virgil: 148 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Loren: 42 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Buford: 23 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Junior: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Wilburn: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wilford: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,735	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,075	–	3
3	Helen	1,026	–	2
4	Ruth	726	–	5
5	Mildred	685	–	6
6	Margaret	633	↑1	4
7	Virginia	586	↓1	10
8	Marie	464	–	12
9	Frances	411	–	9
10	Ruby	379	↑1	23
11	Anna	378	↓1	7
12	Thelma	376	↑2	29
13	Hazel	326	↓1	31
14	Edna	317	↑1	19
15	Lucille	289	↓2	30
16	Elizabeth	287	↑3	8
17	Gladys	269	↓1	22
18	Evelyn	268	↓1	11
19	Martha	265	↑2	24
20	Alice	251	↓2	13
21	Lillian	249	↑1	16
22	Opal	248	↑2	91
23	Ethel	247	↑8	25
24	Wilma	244	↑1	82
25	Florence	240	↓5	14
26	Edith	221	↑6	28
27	Marjorie	221	↑8	37
28	Irene	220	↓1	17
29	Louise	214	↓6	18
30	Bernice	210	↓1	42
31	Pauline	208	↓3	33
32	Grace	205	↑2	26
33	Clara	183	↑16	39
34	Lois	180	↑9	43
35	Rose	171	↑1	15
36	Esther	170	↓10	34
37	Josephine	164	–	21
38	Catherine	160	↓8	20
39	Doris	160	↑3	32
40	Emma	158	new	41
41	Juanita	157	↓8	90
42	Gertrude	149	↓4	35
43	Nellie	148	↑1	61
44	Viola	148	↓3	59
45	Velma	143	↓5	99
46	Alma	142	↑2	70
47	Leona	142	new	75
48	Betty	140	new	44
49	Mabel	139	↓10	65
50	Pearl	139	↓4	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	William	1,287	–	2
2	John	1,239	–	1
3	James	1,067	–	3
4	Charles	911	↑1	6
5	Robert	850	↓1	4
6	George	594	–	7
7	Joseph	452	–	5
8	Harold	442	–	13
9	Edward	426	–	8
10	Paul	408	–	12
11	Raymond	382	–	16
12	Frank	347	–	9
13	Walter	313	–	11
14	Thomas	312	↑3	10
15	Harry	301	↓1	19
16	Richard	294	↑4	15
17	Arthur	283	↑5	18
18	Carl	282	↓3	23
19	Ralph	271	↓3	21
20	Kenneth	268	↑1	27
21	Roy	262	↓2	33
22	Henry	249	↑1	14
23	Albert	248	↑2	17
24	Clarence	247	↓6	24
25	Earl	242	↓1	32
26	Elmer	206	↑1	45
27	Howard	202	↓1	25
28	Jack	198	↑1	26
29	Eugene	191	↑1	39
30	Fred	191	↓2	29
31	Donald	177	↑2	20
32	Francis	164	↑3	31
33	Louis	161	↓1	22
34	Lawrence	160	↓3	38
35	Joe	157	↑3	35
36	David	155	↑4	28
37	Virgil	148	new	>100
38	Leonard	146	↑9	42
39	Herbert	145	↓3	40
40	Melvin	137	↓1	57
41	Russell	137	–	51
42	Lloyd	133	↑6	58
43	Lester	128	↑3	59
44	Woodrow	128	new	64
45	Ernest	127	–	36
46	Floyd	127	↓12	60
47	Clyde	125	↓3	62
48	Marvin	125	new	66
49	Ray	122	↑1	73
50	Clifford	117	new	61

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