The top 40 most popular male names in Ireland in 1916

Popular names a century ago.

The people over at the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have been compiling lots of information about Ireland in 1916. A finding that jumped out at us was the list of male names that were registered the most in Ireland exactly a century ago. The CSO used the data from the closest census (1911) and found out the most popular names in the country at that time. Walter... but that name didn't make the list. Here are the top 40 in descending order. 40. Samuel 39. John Joseph 38. Mathew 37. Nicholas 36. Anthony 35. Lawrence 34. Micheál 33. Matthew 32. Stephen 31. Edmond 30. Philip 29. Maurice 28. Cornelius 27. Owen 26. David 25. Christopher 24. Henry 23. Pat 22. Andrew 21. Hugh 20. Bernard 19. Jeremiah 18. Charles 17. George 16. Robert 15. Francis 14. Timothy 13. Richard 12. Denis 11. Martin 10. Peter 9. Daniel 8. Edward 7. Joseph 6. William 5. Thomas 4. Michael 3. James 2. Patrick 1. John Congrats to all your Johns out there, you've been popular for 100 years.