
Over at The Public Domain Review, I found a collection of 51 novelty playing cards — several incomplete decks, mixed together — from 1916 that feature the images and names of popular movie actresses from that era.
Below are all the first names from those cards, plus where those names happened to rank in the 1916 baby name data. (Two-thirds of them were in the top 100, and over 95% fell inside the top 1,000.)
- Anita (ranked 151st in 1916)
- Anna (7th)
- Beatriz (1,281st)
- Bessie (56th)
- Blanche (89th)
- Clara (39th)
- Cleo (180th)
- Constance (213th)
- Dolores (146th)
- Dorothy (3rd)
- Edith (28th)
- Ella (81st)
- Ethel (25th)
- Fannie (116th)
- Florence (14th)
- Geraldine (94th)
- Gertrude (35th)
- Grace (26th)
- Helen (2nd)
- Julia (46th)
- June (86th)
- Kate (346th)
- Kathlyn (731st)
- Lenore (340th)
- Lillian (16th)
- Louise (18th)
- Mabel (65th)
- Marguerite (78th)
- Mary (1st)
- May (190th)
- Mildred (6th)
- Myrtle (58th)
- Nellie (61st)
- Norma (111th)
- Olive (132nd)
- Ormi (4,982nd)
- Pauline (33rd)
- Pearl (57th)
- Ruth (5th)
- Viola (59th)
- Violet (83rd)
- Vivian (77th)
- Wanda (138th)
Which of the names above do you like best?
Source: Moriarty Playing Cards (1916) – The Public Domain Review