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Born in 1916

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1916

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Dorothy
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Mildred
  7. Anna
  8. Elizabeth
  9. Frances
  10. Virginia
  11. Evelyn
  12. Marie
  13. Alice
  14. Florence
  15. Rose
  16. Lillian
  17. Irene
  18. Louise
  19. Edna
  20. Catherine
  21. Josephine
  22. Gladys
  23. Ruby
  24. Martha
  25. Ethel
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. Robert
  5. Joseph
  6. Charles
  7. George
  8. Edward
  9. Frank
  10. Thomas
  11. Walter
  12. Paul
  13. Harold
  14. Henry
  15. Richard
  16. Raymond
  17. Albert
  18. Arthur
  19. Harry
  20. Donald
  21. Ralph
  22. Louis
  23. Carl
  24. Clarence
  25. Howard
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Grace
  2. Eleanor
  3. Edith
  4. Thelma
  5. Lucille
  6. Hazel
  7. Doris
  8. Pauline
  9. Esther
  10. Gertrude
  11. Annie
  12. Marjorie
  13. Beatrice
  14. Clara
  15. Ann
  16. Emma
  17. Bernice
  18. Lois
  19. Betty
  20. Jean
  21. Julia
  22. Marion
  23. Elsie
  24. Bertha
  25. Agnes
  26. Katherine
  27. Sarah
  28. Anne
  29. Ida
  30. Eva
  31. Bessie
  32. Pearl
  33. Myrtle
  34. Viola
  35. Kathryn
  36. Nellie
  37. Jane
  38. Stella
  39. Laura
  40. Mabel
  41. Vera
  42. Rita
  43. Jessie
  44. Sylvia
  45. Alma
  46. Minnie
  47. Marian
  48. Willie
  49. Barbara
  50. Leona
  51. Genevieve
  52. Vivian
  53. Marguerite
  54. Jennie
  55. Charlotte
  56. Ella
  57. Wilma
  58. Violet
  59. Lucy
  60. Lena
  61. June
  62. Ellen
  63. Lillie
  64. Blanche
  65. Juanita
  66. Opal
  67. Mae
  68. Mattie
  69. Geraldine
  70. Phyllis
  71. Maxine
  72. Beulah
  73. Theresa
  74. Velma
  75. Emily
Boys
  1. Jack
  2. Kenneth
  3. David
  4. Fred
  5. Willie
  6. Francis
  7. Earl
  8. Roy
  9. Stanley
  10. Joe
  11. Ernest
  12. Anthony
  13. Lawrence
  14. Eugene
  15. Herbert
  16. Samuel
  17. Leonard
  18. Alfred
  19. Michael
  20. Elmer
  21. Andrew
  22. Leo
  23. Norman
  24. Bernard
  25. Peter
  26. Russell
  27. Frederick
  28. Edwin
  29. Chester
  30. Daniel
  31. Herman
  32. Melvin
  33. Lloyd
  34. Lester
  35. Floyd
  36. Clifford
  37. Clyde
  38. Leroy
  39. Woodrow
  40. Theodore
  41. Marvin
  42. Vincent
  43. Charlie
  44. Willard
  45. Philip
  46. Lewis
  47. Milton
  48. Ray
  49. Sam
  50. Vernon
  51. Gerald
  52. Jesse
  53. Victor
  54. Benjamin
  55. Cecil
  56. Martin
  57. Alvin
  58. Lee
  59. Glenn
  60. Leon
  61. Oscar
  62. Stephen
  63. Edgar
  64. Arnold
  65. Gordon
  66. Everett
  67. Harvey
  68. Claude
  69. Wilbur
  70. Sidney
  71. Hugh
  72. Morris
  73. Wayne
  74. Alexander
  75. Maurice
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1916.

Famous people born in 1916

Sune Bergström · Swedish biochemistJanuary 10
Jackie Gleason · American comedian and actorFebruary 26
Dinah Shore · American singer and actressFebruary 29
Harold Wilson · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976March 11
Jacque Fresco · American futurist and self-described social engineerMarch 13
Christian B. Anfinsen · American biochemistMarch 26
Gregory Peck · American actorApril 5
Sirimavo Bandaranaike · Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000April 17
Yehudi Menuhin · American violinist and conductorApril 22
Claude Shannon · American mathematician and information theoristApril 30
Glenn Ford · Canadian-American actorMay 1
Zail Singh · President of India from 1982 to 1987May 5
Camilo José Cela · Spanish writerMay 11
Harold Robbins · American novelistMay 21
Bernard Lewis · British-American historianMay 31
Robert F. Furchgott · American biochemistJune 4
Francis Crick · British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientistJune 8
Robert McNamara · American businessman and Secretary of DefenseJune 9
Dorothy McGuire · American actressJune 14
Herbert A. Simon · American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologistJune 15
Olivia de Havilland · British actressJuly 1
Edward Heath · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974July 9
Alexander Prokhorov · Soviet and Russian physicistJuly 11
Gough Whitlam · Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of AustraliaJuly 11
Frederick Chapman Robbins · American doctorAugust 25
C. Wright Mills · American sociologistAugust 28
Jack Vance · American mystery and speculative fiction writerAugust 28
Roald Dahl · British writer and poetSeptember 13
Aldo Moro · Italian politicianSeptember 23
Vitaly Ginzburg · Russian physicistOctober 4
Jean Dausset · French immunologistOctober 19
François Mitterrand · 21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995October 26
Walter Cronkite · American broadcast journalistNovember 4
Ruth Handler · American businesswomanNovember 4
Kirk Douglas · American actorDecember 9
Shirley Jackson · American writerDecember 14
Maurice Wilkins · New Zealand-born English physicist and biologistDecember 15
Dino Risi · Italian film directorDecember 23
Ahmed Ben Bella · President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965December 25

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