Popular baby names in Washington, 1917

The most popular baby names in Washington in 1917 were Mary for girls (408 babies) and Robert for boys (503). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 16,340 babies born in Washington in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Washington in 1917

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

Girls

Winnifred: 16 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Peggy: 26 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Patricia: 56 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Bette: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Billie: 23 babies, 4.6× the national rate
June: 121 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Maxine: 68 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Donna: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carol: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Barbara: 84 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Laurence: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Bert: 19 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Don: 26 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Ted: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Delbert: 22 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Gordon: 55 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bruce: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Douglas: 25 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jack: 172 babies, 3× the national rate
Bill: 22 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Washington, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	408	–	1
2	Dorothy	376	–	3
3	Helen	326	↑1	2
4	Margaret	312	↓1	4
5	Ruth	257	–	5
6	Virginia	181	–	10
7	Frances	162	–	9
8	Betty	150	↑6	34
9	Alice	133	–	13
10	Evelyn	129	–	11
11	Jean	122	↑8	40
12	June	121	↑3	73
13	Mildred	120	↓1	6
14	Florence	114	↓3	14
15	Doris	109	↑2	25
16	Marjorie	109	–	36
17	Elizabeth	107	↓9	8
18	Lois	102	↓5	43
19	Esther	95	↑2	38
20	Edith	88	↓2	28
21	Marie	87	↓1	12
22	Hazel	85	↑2	31
23	Barbara	84	↑11	67
24	Gladys	84	↑5	23
25	Eleanor	78	↓2	26
26	Grace	78	–	30
27	Edna	76	↑1	20
28	Irene	68	↑3	17
29	Maxine	68	↑4	93
30	Martha	67	↑14	22
31	Lillian	66	↓9	15
32	Lucille	66	–	29
33	Ellen	64	↑15	90
34	Bernice	62	↑8	42
35	Louise	61	↓8	19
36	Marguerite	61	↑5	78
37	Rose	59	↓1	16
38	Phyllis	58	↑2	92
39	Patricia	56	new	>100
40	Marion	54	↓1	45
41	Thelma	54	↓6	32
42	Jane	51	new	55
43	Pearl	51	new	57
44	Anna	49	↑3	7
45	Elsie	49	↓20	50
46	Gertrude	49	↓9	37
47	Katherine	49	↓4	49
48	Agnes	48	↑1	48
49	Bertha	48	new	51
50	Pauline	48	new	33

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Robert	503	–	4
2	John	427	–	1
3	William	400	–	2
4	James	274	↑1	3
5	George	237	↓1	6
6	Richard	209	↑2	14
7	Charles	191	↓1	7
8	Donald	173	↓1	20
9	Jack	172	↑1	22
10	Edward	155	↑2	8
11	Harold	151	↓2	12
12	Frank	113	↓1	9
13	Albert	107	↑14	18
14	Walter	103	–	11
15	Arthur	101	↓2	17
16	Kenneth	100	↑3	27
17	Joseph	94	↑1	5
18	Paul	90	↑3	13
19	Roy	84	↑5	33
20	Harry	83	↓5	19
21	Henry	83	↑5	15
22	Howard	83	↓6	26
23	Ralph	80	↓6	21
24	Fred	79	↓4	29
25	Carl	77	–	24
26	Lloyd	75	↑20	53
27	Raymond	75	↓5	16
28	David	67	↑5	28
29	Thomas	66	↓6	10
30	Clarence	64	↓1	25
31	Lawrence	61	↑3	36
32	Ernest	59	↓2	37
33	Eugene	59	↓5	39
34	Earl	56	↓2	32
35	Elmer	56	↑4	45
36	Norman	56	↓5	46
37	Gordon	55	↑3	84
38	Leonard	49	↓1	41
39	Herbert	47	↓3	40
40	Francis	46	↓5	30
41	Alfred	44	↑1	43
42	Clifford	44	↑1	59
43	Stanley	44	↓5	34
44	Edwin	43	–	55
45	Melvin	41	↑3	57
46	Frederick	39	new	51
47	Glenn	39	new	86
48	Russell	36	new	52
49	Joe	34	new	35
50	Lester	34	new	61

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