Popular baby names in West Virginia, 1916

The most popular baby names in West Virginia in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,120 babies) and John for boys (648). Social Security records list 26,370 babies born in West Virginia in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in West Virginia in 1916

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

Girls

Delphia: 16 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Audra: 19 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Esta: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Glenna: 27 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Garnet: 25 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Ocie: 16 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Vada: 23 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Freda: 80 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Orpha: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Wilda: 21 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Boys

Okey: 22 babies, 64.9× the national rate
Denver: 27 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Basil: 25 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Junior: 18 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Boyd: 27 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roscoe: 31 babies, 5× the national rate
Jess: 27 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Dennis: 28 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Garland: 19 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Woodrow: 133 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in West Virginia, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,120	–	1
2	Virginia	446	–	10
3	Helen	445	–	2
4	Ruth	377	–	5
5	Margaret	374	–	4
6	Dorothy	286	↑1	3
7	Mildred	263	↓1	6
8	Ruby	232	–	23
9	Anna	215	–	7
10	Edith	207	↑6	28
11	Elizabeth	207	↓1	8
12	Thelma	203	↓1	29
13	Hazel	199	–	31
14	Evelyn	183	↓2	11
15	Edna	181	↑4	19
16	Opal	181	↑6	91
17	Pauline	170	↓2	33
18	Frances	163	↓4	9
19	Mabel	155	↑5	65
20	Martha	154	↓2	24
21	Ethel	151	↓1	25
22	Gladys	150	↓5	22
23	Marie	142	↑2	12
24	Nellie	140	↓3	61
25	Louise	132	↓2	18
26	Irene	130	↑3	17
27	Lillian	124	↓1	16
28	Beulah	123	↑3	97
29	Alice	114	↓2	13
30	Eva	109	↑5	55
31	Lucille	108	↓1	30
32	Juanita	106	new	90
33	Grace	99	↓5	26
34	Myrtle	94	↑15	58
35	Bessie	93	↓2	56
36	Emma	87	new	41
37	Josephine	87	↑10	21
38	Sarah	87	↓2	52
39	Clara	86	new	39
40	Pearl	85	–	57
41	Betty	84	new	44
42	Elsie	81	↓10	48
43	Freda	80	↑7	>100
44	Rose	77	↓1	15
45	Gertrude	76	new	35
46	Katherine	76	new	51
47	Bertha	75	↓6	49
48	Eleanor	74	↓4	27
49	Julia	74	↓7	46
50	Violet	74	↓12	83

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	648	↑2	1
2	William	634	↓1	2
3	James	611	↓1	3
4	Charles	522	–	6
5	Robert	408	–	4
6	George	272	–	7
7	Paul	241	–	12
8	Harry	199	↑1	19
9	Joseph	180	↓1	5
10	Frank	176	↑2	9
11	Edward	168	↑2	8
12	Harold	146	↓2	13
13	Thomas	138	↓2	10
14	Woodrow	133	↑27	64
15	Roy	132	↑2	33
16	Carl	131	↓1	23
17	Howard	126	↓3	25
18	Raymond	124	↑2	16
19	Richard	120	↑4	15
20	Earl	118	↑4	32
21	Ralph	114	↓5	21
22	Walter	108	–	11
23	Albert	107	↑2	17
24	Clarence	103	↓6	24
25	Fred	98	↑2	29
26	Clyde	94	↑8	62
27	Kenneth	91	↑6	27
28	Henry	89	↓2	14
29	Arthur	81	↑7	18
30	Willard	80	↓11	69
31	Samuel	75	↓1	41
32	Ernest	74	↓11	36
33	Ray	74	↓2	73
34	Lawrence	72	↓5	38
35	Herbert	71	↑11	40
36	Joe	70	↓4	35
37	Donald	69	↑3	20
38	Jack	68	↓10	26
39	Cecil	67	–	80
40	David	64	↑5	28
41	Virgil	64	↑8	>100
42	Russell	60	↓4	51
43	Homer	57	↓1	>100
44	Leonard	56	↑3	42
45	Elmer	54	↓10	45
46	Chester	52	new	54
47	Eugene	52	↓10	39
48	Clifford	51	new	61
49	Bernard	50	↓6	49
50	Lester	47	↓6	59

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