Popular baby names in New York, 1916

The most popular baby names in New York in 1916 were Mary for girls (5,497 babies) and John for boys (5,370). Social Security records list 174,252 babies born in New York in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1916

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

Girls

Yetta: 127 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Roslyn: 90 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Vincenza: 51 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Carmela: 234 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Filomena: 75 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Bella: 97 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Ray: 62 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Concetta: 154 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Rae: 78 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Rosalind: 75 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Moe: 41 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Isidore: 140 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Mortimer: 63 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Seymour: 235 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Hyman: 224 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Carmelo: 42 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 475 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Carmine: 104 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Rosario: 63 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Murray: 233 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	5,497	–	1
2	Helen	3,923	–	2
3	Dorothy	2,797	–	3
4	Margaret	2,706	–	4
5	Ruth	2,505	–	5
6	Rose	2,309	–	15
7	Anna	2,279	–	7
8	Frances	1,700	–	9
9	Florence	1,587	–	14
10	Elizabeth	1,578	↑1	8
11	Josephine	1,498	↑4	21
12	Lillian	1,447	↓2	16
13	Catherine	1,420	↑1	20
14	Marie	1,383	↓1	12
15	Mildred	1,362	↓3	6
16	Evelyn	1,175	–	11
17	Sylvia	1,140	–	69
18	Eleanor	1,056	–	27
19	Marion	1,033	↑2	47
20	Alice	942	↓1	13
21	Anne	937	↑2	53
22	Gertrude	923	↓2	35
23	Grace	897	↓1	26
24	Beatrice	884	↑3	38
25	Jean	852	↓1	45
26	Virginia	837	↑6	10
27	Irene	804	↓2	17
28	Rita	784	↓2	67
29	Edith	761	–	28
30	Ann	760	–	40
31	Doris	756	↓3	32
32	Louise	669	↓1	18
33	Ethel	652	–	25
34	Esther	643	↑1	34
35	Edna	607	↓1	19
36	Marjorie	599	↑2	37
37	Julia	573	↓1	46
38	Betty	553	↑6	44
39	Ida	540	↑2	54
40	Katherine	538	↑3	51
41	Jane	530	↑8	62
42	Pauline	527	↓5	33
43	Agnes	519	↓1	50
44	Jennie	518	↓4	79
45	Gladys	504	–	22
46	Theresa	487	↓7	98
47	Elsie	465	↓1	48
48	Stella	446	↓1	63
49	Pearl	423	new	57
50	Martha	415	new	24

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	5,370	–	1
2	Joseph	3,978	–	5
3	William	3,776	–	2
4	Robert	2,438	↑1	4
5	George	2,351	↑4	7
6	Charles	2,327	↓2	6
7	Edward	2,264	↑1	8
8	Frank	2,219	↓2	9
9	James	2,211	↓2	3
10	Thomas	1,355	↑1	10
11	Anthony	1,257	↓1	37
12	Louis	1,240	↑1	22
13	Harold	1,202	↓1	13
14	Arthur	1,139	–	18
15	Walter	1,093	–	11
16	Michael	1,064	↑1	44
17	Henry	1,062	↑1	14
18	Albert	927	↑2	17
19	Harry	907	↓3	19
20	Richard	871	↓1	15
21	Francis	843	↑1	31
22	Paul	806	↓1	12
23	Raymond	751	↑1	16
24	Peter	713	↑2	50
25	Vincent	705	↓2	67
26	Bernard	698	↑3	49
27	David	686	↓2	28
28	Stanley	682	–	34
29	Irving	675	↓2	>100
30	Donald	662	↑2	20
31	Samuel	615	–	41
32	Alfred	602	↑1	43
33	Jack	588	↓3	26
34	Philip	585	↑1	70
35	Howard	575	↑4	25
36	Frederick	568	–	52
37	Herbert	556	–	40
38	Ralph	541	↓4	21
39	Sidney	499	↓1	95
40	Kenneth	486	↑2	27
41	Milton	481	–	72
42	Salvatore	475	↑7	>100
43	Daniel	468	↓3	55
44	Fred	464	–	29
45	Morris	440	↓2	97
46	Lawrence	439	–	38
47	Leonard	431	↓2	42
48	Leo	422	↑2	47
49	Nicholas	398	↓2	>100
50	Carl	396	↓2	23

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