Popular baby names in North Dakota, 1916

The most popular baby names in North Dakota in 1916 were Mary for girls (271 babies) and John for boys (339). Social Security records list 14,182 babies born in North Dakota in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Dakota in 1916

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

Girls

Alvina: 22 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Erna: 25 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Tillie: 20 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Frieda: 31 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Luella: 29 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Selma: 23 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Fern: 42 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Adeline: 36 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lydia: 35 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Laverne: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Olaf: 15 babies, 25.3× the national rate
Anton: 29 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Lynn: 21 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Kermit: 16 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lyle: 41 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Reuben: 19 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Otto: 29 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Ervin: 26 babies, 5× the national rate
Adam: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Orville: 38 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Dakota, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	271	↑1	1
2	Helen	220	↓1	2
3	Margaret	206	↑1	4
4	Dorothy	194	↓1	3
5	Ruth	179	–	5
6	Esther	147	–	34
7	Evelyn	147	–	11
8	Alice	123	↑1	13
9	Gladys	122	↑4	22
10	Irene	121	–	17
11	Mildred	115	↓3	6
12	Florence	108	↑4	14
13	Lillian	108	↓1	16
14	Anna	107	↑3	7
15	Frances	106	↑3	9
16	Edna	97	↑3	19
17	Agnes	94	↓3	50
18	Marie	94	↑2	12
19	Emma	87	↑8	41
20	Elizabeth	84	↓9	8
21	Myrtle	84	↓6	58
22	Rose	84	↑1	15
23	Doris	82	↑13	32
24	Martha	81	↓2	24
25	Eleanor	75	↑7	27
26	Ida	73	↑11	54
27	Clara	72	↓6	39
28	Ethel	70	↑5	25
29	Hazel	69	↓5	31
30	Bernice	65	↓4	42
31	Mabel	64	↑11	65
32	Elsie	63	↓7	48
33	Lucille	62	↓5	30
34	Viola	60	↑9	59
35	Eva	58	↓5	55
36	Edith	55	↓7	28
37	Lois	53	↑13	43
38	Vivian	52	new	77
39	Bertha	51	↓8	49
40	Ann	49	↓6	40
41	Grace	49	↑5	26
42	Louise	49	new	18
43	Thelma	49	↓3	29
44	Virginia	48	new	10
45	Hilda	47	new	>100
46	Katherine	46	↓1	51
47	Marian	46	new	72
48	Alma	45	↑1	70
49	Kathryn	45	↓8	60
50	Pauline	45	↓2	33

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	339	–	1
2	William	227	–	2
3	Robert	191	–	4
4	George	153	–	7
5	James	147	–	3
6	Harold	138	–	13
7	Arthur	122	↑1	18
8	Donald	113	↑3	20
9	Raymond	111	↑1	16
10	Edward	110	↓1	8
11	Joseph	108	↓4	5
12	Frank	106	↑6	9
13	Walter	106	↓1	11
14	Henry	103	↓1	14
15	Kenneth	97	↑1	27
16	Albert	92	↓2	17
17	Richard	92	↑3	15
18	Charles	89	↓3	6
19	Clarence	89	↓2	24
20	Edwin	79	↑2	53
21	Herbert	73	↓2	40
22	Ernest	71	↑11	36
23	Carl	70	↑6	23
24	Elmer	70	↑7	45
25	Earl	69	–	32
26	Lloyd	69	↑1	58
27	Paul	69	↓3	12
28	Leonard	68	↑15	42
29	Ralph	67	↓1	21
30	Norman	63	↑2	48
31	Melvin	62	↑14	57
32	Roy	62	↓9	33
33	Lawrence	58	↓12	38
34	Alvin	55	↑4	82
35	Vernon	55	↑12	75
36	Alfred	54	↑5	43
37	Fred	54	↓3	29
38	Arnold	53	↓3	89
39	Francis	53	↑3	31
40	Peter	53	new	50
41	Clifford	52	↓5	61
42	Harry	52	↓5	19
43	Leo	52	new	47
44	Eugene	46	new	39
45	Howard	46	↓15	25
46	Theodore	46	↓20	65
47	Chester	45	new	54
48	Floyd	45	new	60
49	Gordon	42	↓10	90
50	Lester	42	new	59

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