Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1916

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,095
2	William	2,354
3	Robert	2,120
4	Joseph	1,655
5	Edward	1,631
6	James	1,542
7	George	1,472
8	Charles	1,441
9	Frank	1,181
10	Walter	1,014
11	Harold	870
12	Raymond	831
13	Paul	702
14	Richard	670
15	Harry	621
16	Arthur	616
17	Donald	599
18	Thomas	591
19	Henry	574
20	Albert	568
21	Stanley	541
22	Carl	487
23	Ralph	485
24	Kenneth	467
25	Louis	451

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Howard	392
27	Fred	390
28	Earl	352
29	Anthony	347
30	Francis	346
31	Clarence	345
32	Eugene	329
33	Roy	327
34	Lawrence	323
35	Leonard	318
36	Elmer	309
37	Jack	300
38	Russell	293
39	Chester	282
40	Bernard	270
41	Herbert	264
42	Peter	253
43	Leo	252
44	Michael	250
45	Edwin	246
46	Alfred	234
47	David	233
48	Melvin	232
49	Theodore	231
50	Joe	227
51	Norman	216
52	Lester	205
53	Ernest	202
54	Andrew	196
55	Glenn	184
56	Leroy	177
57	Frederick	174
57	Herman	174
59	Vernon	167
60	Lloyd	166
61	Daniel	165
61	Willard	165
63	Samuel	163
64	Clifford	152
64	Floyd	152
66	Martin	151
66	Victor	151
68	Wayne	150
69	Gerald	147
70	Steve	142
71	Emil	140
72	Wilbur	138
73	Everett	136
74	Philip	134
75	Ray	133
75	Tony	133
77	Vincent	131
78	Sam	130
79	Virgil	124
80	Marvin	123
81	Alvin	120
81	Irving	120
83	Stephen	118
84	Warren	116
85	Clyde	113
85	Maurice	113
87	Bruno	110
88	Milton	108
89	Dale	106
89	Jerome	106
91	Lewis	104
91	Orville	104
93	Gilbert	101
94	Rudolph	100
95	Max	99
96	Arnold	95
97	Edmund	93
97	Gordon	93
99	Mike	92
100	Harvey	91