Popular baby names in Tennessee, 1916

The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,723 babies) and James for boys (1,647). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 41,800 babies born in Tennessee in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Tennessee in 1916

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

Girls

Trula: 18 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Nelle: 29 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Robbie: 40 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Rubye: 42 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Lue: 17 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Linnie: 21 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Callie: 39 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Frankie: 39 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Hettie: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Virgie: 49 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Buford: 32 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Clay: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Odell: 28 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Luke: 18 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Freeman: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Grady: 43 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Will: 30 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Dewey: 29 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Wilburn: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Billie: 17 babies, 3.7× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,723	–	1
2	Margaret	490	↑1	4
3	Ruby	469	↓1	23
4	Ruth	462	–	5
5	Mildred	403	–	6
6	Dorothy	383	↑2	3
7	Helen	342	↑4	2
8	Annie	338	↑2	36
9	Elizabeth	324	↓2	8
10	Martha	317	↓1	24
11	Frances	315	↓5	9
12	Gladys	312	↑3	22
13	Virginia	303	↑1	10
14	Louise	289	↓2	18
15	Edna	288	↑1	19
16	Hazel	266	↑3	31
17	Anna	255	–	7
18	Thelma	239	↑3	29
19	Willie	238	↓6	73
20	Pauline	235	↓2	33
21	Edith	199	↓1	28
22	Evelyn	193	↑1	11
23	Sarah	192	↑4	52
24	Minnie	185	↑15	71
25	Ethel	184	↓3	25
26	Mattie	183	–	93
27	Lillian	180	↑1	16
28	Lucille	180	↓4	30
29	Bessie	177	↓4	56
30	Clara	175	↑4	39
31	Katherine	167	↑1	51
32	Marie	166	↓1	12
33	Alice	159	–	13
34	Irene	155	↑1	17
35	Grace	154	↓6	26
36	Jessie	151	–	68
37	Lillie	148	–	88
38	Georgia	143	↑10	>100
39	Nellie	142	↑6	61
40	Emma	132	↓2	41
41	Myrtle	131	↓11	58
42	Pearl	131	new	57
43	Alma	129	↑3	70
44	Eva	128	↑5	55
45	Beatrice	125	↓5	38
46	Bertha	122	↓4	49
47	Beulah	117	↑3	97
48	Ella	112	new	81
49	Ida	110	new	54
50	Geneva	108	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	James	1,647	–	3
2	William	1,300	–	2
3	John	1,079	–	1
4	Robert	759	–	4
5	Charles	538	–	6
6	George	491	–	7
7	Thomas	388	–	10
8	Willie	270	–	30
9	Henry	230	↑7	14
10	Walter	230	↑7	11
11	Frank	229	↑2	9
12	Edward	216	↓1	8
13	Roy	216	↑2	33
14	Paul	214	↓5	12
15	Joe	212	↓5	35
16	Fred	209	↓4	29
17	Carl	199	↑1	23
18	Joseph	198	↓4	5
19	Clarence	192	–	24
20	Howard	180	↑2	25
21	Albert	175	↓1	17
22	Earl	174	↑2	32
23	Harry	146	↑14	19
24	Jack	145	↑6	26
25	Charlie	142	–	68
26	Raymond	142	↓3	16
27	Clyde	140	↓1	62
28	Richard	139	–	15
29	David	136	↓8	28
30	Woodrow	135	↑6	64
31	Ralph	130	↓2	21
32	Samuel	126	↓1	41
33	Arthur	116	↓1	18
34	Jesse	113	↑1	77
35	Ernest	112	↓8	36
36	Claude	100	↓2	93
37	Elmer	100	↑6	45
38	Luther	93	new	>100
39	Eugene	92	↑1	39
40	Harold	92	↓7	13
41	Herman	92	↓3	56
42	Cecil	89	↓3	80
43	Willard	89	↓2	69
44	Jessie	88	↑3	>100
45	Herbert	87	↓1	40
46	Hubert	86	–	>100
47	Ray	85	↓5	73
48	Leonard	84	new	42
49	Floyd	81	↓4	60
50	Kenneth	80	new	27

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