Popular baby names in Ohio, 1916

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1916 were Mary for girls (3,736 babies) and John for boys (2,558). Social Security records list 88,582 babies born in Ohio in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1916

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

Girls

Treva: 26 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Garnet: 39 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Glenna: 41 babies, 4× the national rate
Dorotha: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Donna: 86 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bette: 32 babies, 3× the national rate
Wilda: 36 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Betty: 644 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Rosemary: 123 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Rosella: 44 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Cletus: 29 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Nick: 104 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Steve: 210 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Mike: 162 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Forest: 43 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Dwight: 54 babies, 3× the national rate
Andy: 39 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Emerson: 30 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Sanford: 28 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Rolland: 23 babies, 2.8× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	3,736	–	1
2	Helen	2,253	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,718	↑1	3
4	Ruth	1,673	↓1	5
5	Margaret	1,509	–	4
6	Virginia	906	↑2	10
7	Mildred	882	↓1	6
8	Elizabeth	833	↓1	8
9	Anna	758	–	7
10	Evelyn	666	–	11
11	Betty	644	↑7	44
12	Frances	638	–	9
13	Florence	602	↓2	14
14	Martha	571	↓1	24
15	Alice	567	–	13
16	Marie	563	↓2	12
17	Rose	523	↓1	15
18	Irene	492	↓1	17
19	Catherine	454	↑1	20
20	Eleanor	448	↓1	27
21	Thelma	445	↑2	29
22	Marjorie	439	↑4	37
23	Edna	393	↑1	19
24	Esther	389	↓2	34
25	Lucille	386	–	30
26	Ann	382	↑6	40
27	Lillian	382	↓6	16
28	Doris	381	↑2	32
29	Josephine	377	↓1	21
30	Kathryn	366	↑7	60
31	Pauline	361	↓4	33
32	Louise	339	↓3	18
33	Jean	334	↑8	45
34	Grace	332	↓1	26
35	Edith	327	↑1	28
36	Ethel	322	↓2	25
37	Hazel	321	↓2	31
38	Jane	316	↑2	62
39	Clara	314	↓8	39
40	Gladys	311	↓2	22
41	Gertrude	297	↓2	35
42	Katherine	263	↑2	51
43	Julia	255	↓1	46
44	Anne	253	↓1	53
45	Lois	241	–	43
46	Wilma	241	↑1	82
47	Elsie	238	↑1	48
48	Marian	238	new	72
49	Agnes	235	–	50
50	Bertha	214	new	49

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	2,558	–	1
2	Robert	2,475	–	4
3	William	2,024	–	2
4	Charles	1,485	–	6
5	James	1,426	–	3
6	Joseph	1,170	↑1	5
7	George	1,159	↓1	7
8	Paul	951	–	12
9	Edward	881	↑1	8
10	Richard	865	↑2	15
11	Frank	802	↓2	9
12	Harold	729	↓1	13
13	Donald	677	–	20
14	Carl	560	↑2	23
15	Walter	554	↓1	11
16	Ralph	546	↓1	21
17	Raymond	532	–	16
18	Albert	499	↑1	17
19	Harry	484	↓1	19
20	Thomas	472	↑1	10
21	Howard	459	↓1	25
22	Kenneth	398	↑1	27
23	Arthur	386	↓1	18
24	Jack	354	↑7	26
25	Clarence	353	↓1	24
26	Louis	331	–	22
27	Earl	319	↑1	32
28	Stanley	297	↑1	34
29	Henry	295	↓4	14
30	David	286	↑2	28
31	Lawrence	269	↓4	38
32	Eugene	251	↑2	39
33	Fred	244	↓3	29
34	Elmer	239	↑1	45
35	Joe	221	↑2	35
36	Anthony	220	↑4	37
37	Roy	220	↑5	33
38	Russell	217	↓2	51
39	Herbert	216	–	40
40	Francis	212	↓7	31
41	Leonard	211	–	42
42	Steve	210	↑6	>100
43	Norman	206	↑3	48
44	Andrew	197	↑3	46
45	Ernest	196	new	36
46	Bernard	186	↓1	49
47	Frederick	182	↓3	52
48	Edwin	181	↓5	53
49	Chester	180	new	54
50	Michael	173	↓12	44

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