State roster
Top names in Nevada
The names most likely to appear on 1916 Nevada birth certificates, ranked by SSA state records. The SSA recorded 566 Nevada births in 1916 across 57 distinct names.
Distinctively Nevada
Names that rank far higher here than they do nationally — the ones that say Nevada more than they say America.
- #18Anita#151 nationally
- #31Verna#125 nationally
- #29Norma#111 nationally
- #17Martin#81 nationally
- #26Ellen#87 nationally
- #27Genevieve#76 nationally
- #12Jean#45 nationally
Girls
- #1Mary40US #1
- #2Dorothy17US #3
- #3Alice14US #13
- #4Frances12US #9
- #5Irene11US #17
- #6Margaret11US #4
- #7Catherine10US #20
- #8Helen10US #2
- #9Ruth10US #5
- #10Edith9US #28
- #11Grace9US #26
- #12Jean9US #45
- #13Lillian8US #16
- #14Marjorie8US #37
- #15Virginia8US #10
- #16Doris7US #32
- #17Mildred7US #6
- #18Anita6US #151
- #19Elizabeth6US #8
- #20Evelyn6US #11
- #21Lucille6US #30
- #22Marie6US #12
- #23Rose6US #15
- #24Betty5US #44
- #25Eleanor5US #27
- #26Ellen5US #87
- #27Genevieve5US #76
- #28Julia5US #46
- #29Norma5US #111
- #30Thelma5US #29
- #31Verna5US #125
Boys
- #1John41US #1
- #2William28US #2
- #3Robert27US #4
- #4James20US #3
- #5George14US #7
- #6Joseph14US #5
- #7Charles13US #6
- #8Thomas13US #10
- #9Jack11US #26
- #10Donald10US #20
- #11Edward9US #8
- #12Arthur8US #18
- #13Louis8US #22
- #14Henry7US #14
- #15Paul7US #12
- #16Harold6US #13
- #17Martin6US #81
- #18Raymond6US #16
- #19Richard6US #15
- #20Roy6US #33
- #21Albert5US #17
- #22Alfred5US #43
- #23Frank5US #9
- #24Harry5US #19
- #25Kenneth5US #27
- #26Walter5US #11
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State-level SSA records cover 1910–2024 — a shorter window than the national archive, which runs back to 1880. See 1915 rankings.