By year
The top names of 1914
Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 1,416,343 babies in the public record for that year.
Girls, 1914
| # | Name | Babies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | 45,346 | 5.95% |
| 2 | Helen | 23,221 | 3.05% |
| 3 | Dorothy | 18,782 | 2.47% |
| 4 | Margaret | 17,763 | 2.33% |
| 5 | Ruth | 15,839 | 2.08% |
| 6 | Anna | 11,865 | 1.56% |
| 7 | Mildred | 11,649 | 1.53% |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 11,367 | 1.49% |
| 9 | Frances | 9,677 | 1.27% |
| 10 | Marie | 8,829 | 1.16% |
| 11 | Evelyn | 8,506 | 1.12% |
| 12 | Alice | 8,198 | 1.08% |
| 13 | Florence | 7,886 | 1.04% |
| 14 | Virginia | 7,601 | 1.00% |
| 15 | Rose | 7,574 | 0.99% |
| 16 | Lillian | 7,354 | 0.97% |
| 17 | Louise | 6,648 | 0.87% |
| 18 | Catherine | 6,613 | 0.87% |
| 19 | Edna | 6,289 | 0.83% |
| 20 | Gladys | 6,227 | 0.82% |
| 21 | Ethel | 6,204 | 0.81% |
| 22 | Irene | 6,197 | 0.81% |
| 23 | Josephine | 5,896 | 0.77% |
| 24 | Ruby | 5,625 | 0.74% |
| 25 | Grace | 5,594 | 0.73% |
| 26 | Thelma | 5,496 | 0.72% |
| 27 | Martha | 5,432 | 0.71% |
| 28 | Eleanor | 5,374 | 0.71% |
| 29 | Hazel | 5,324 | 0.70% |
| 30 | Lucille | 5,320 | 0.70% |
| 31 | Edith | 5,209 | 0.68% |
| 32 | Gertrude | 4,938 | 0.65% |
| 33 | Annie | 4,800 | 0.63% |
| 34 | Pauline | 4,698 | 0.62% |
| 35 | Esther | 4,654 | 0.61% |
| 36 | Doris | 4,429 | 0.58% |
| 37 | Clara | 4,240 | 0.56% |
| 38 | Beatrice | 4,232 | 0.56% |
| 39 | Emma | 3,972 | 0.52% |
| 40 | Ann | 3,888 | 0.51% |
| 41 | Bertha | 3,859 | 0.51% |
| 42 | Julia | 3,814 | 0.50% |
| 43 | Bernice | 3,730 | 0.49% |
| 44 | Agnes | 3,721 | 0.49% |
| 45 | Marjorie | 3,713 | 0.49% |
| 46 | Elsie | 3,683 | 0.48% |
| 47 | Sarah | 3,679 | 0.48% |
| 48 | Katherine | 3,652 | 0.48% |
| 49 | Ida | 3,561 | 0.47% |
| 50 | Marion | 3,550 | 0.47% |
Boys, 1914
| # | Name | Babies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | 37,947 | 5.80% |
| 2 | William | 29,753 | 4.54% |
| 3 | James | 26,262 | 4.01% |
| 4 | Robert | 21,188 | 3.24% |
| 5 | Joseph | 18,829 | 2.88% |
| 6 | George | 17,602 | 2.69% |
| 7 | Charles | 16,937 | 2.59% |
| 8 | Edward | 12,319 | 1.88% |
| 9 | Frank | 12,002 | 1.83% |
| 10 | Walter | 8,962 | 1.37% |
| 11 | Thomas | 8,850 | 1.35% |
| 12 | Henry | 8,110 | 1.24% |
| 13 | Paul | 7,733 | 1.18% |
| 14 | Harold | 7,563 | 1.16% |
| 15 | Albert | 6,942 | 1.06% |
| 16 | Raymond | 6,821 | 1.04% |
| 17 | Richard | 6,669 | 1.02% |
| 18 | Arthur | 6,641 | 1.01% |
| 19 | Harry | 6,588 | 1.01% |
| 20 | Louis | 5,495 | 0.84% |
| 21 | Ralph | 5,009 | 0.77% |
| 22 | Clarence | 4,909 | 0.75% |
| 23 | Donald | 4,835 | 0.74% |
| 24 | Carl | 4,807 | 0.73% |
| 25 | Willie | 4,709 | 0.72% |
| 26 | Howard | 4,490 | 0.69% |
| 27 | Jack | 4,485 | 0.68% |
| 28 | Fred | 4,441 | 0.68% |
| 29 | David | 4,251 | 0.65% |
| 30 | Kenneth | 4,178 | 0.64% |
| 31 | Francis | 3,901 | 0.60% |
| 32 | Roy | 3,852 | 0.59% |
| 33 | Earl | 3,842 | 0.59% |
| 34 | Joe | 3,712 | 0.57% |
| 35 | Lawrence | 3,703 | 0.57% |
| 36 | Samuel | 3,703 | 0.57% |
| 37 | Anthony | 3,695 | 0.56% |
| 38 | Ernest | 3,632 | 0.55% |
| 39 | Stanley | 3,559 | 0.54% |
| 40 | Michael | 3,362 | 0.51% |
| 41 | Alfred | 3,347 | 0.51% |
| 42 | Herbert | 3,253 | 0.50% |
| 43 | Eugene | 3,211 | 0.49% |
| 44 | Andrew | 2,965 | 0.45% |
| 45 | Leonard | 2,923 | 0.45% |
| 46 | Elmer | 2,878 | 0.44% |
| 47 | Leo | 2,655 | 0.41% |
| 48 | Peter | 2,624 | 0.40% |
| 49 | Russell | 2,568 | 0.39% |
| 50 | Bernard | 2,436 | 0.37% |
United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.
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