Top Baby Names of 1931 · Kiddos Treehouse

By year

The top names of 1931

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,104,393 babies in the public record for that year.

← 1930 All years 1932 →

Girls, 1931

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	60,299	5.66%
2	Betty	36,105	3.39%
3	Dorothy	26,524	2.49%
4	Barbara	21,804	2.05%
5	Joan	19,119	1.80%
6	Helen	17,664	1.66%
7	Margaret	17,332	1.63%
8	Patricia	16,469	1.55%
9	Shirley	14,405	1.35%
10	Doris	13,629	1.28%
11	Ruth	13,132	1.23%
12	Virginia	11,886	1.12%
13	Jean	11,013	1.03%
14	Dolores	10,807	1.02%
15	Joyce	10,580	0.99%
16	Elizabeth	10,292	0.97%
17	Nancy	10,036	0.94%
18	Frances	9,718	0.91%
19	Marilyn	9,664	0.91%
20	Lois	9,348	0.88%
21	Alice	8,815	0.83%
22	Norma	8,759	0.82%
23	Gloria	8,546	0.80%
24	Evelyn	8,492	0.80%
25	Anna	8,429	0.79%
26	Mildred	8,169	0.77%
27	Marie	7,549	0.71%
28	Martha	7,481	0.70%
29	Phyllis	7,213	0.68%
30	Rose	6,881	0.65%
31	Beverly	6,789	0.64%
32	Donna	6,600	0.62%
33	Louise	5,897	0.55%
34	Marjorie	5,880	0.55%
35	Ann	5,858	0.55%
36	Catherine	5,642	0.53%
37	Irene	5,616	0.53%
38	Geraldine	5,413	0.51%
39	Ruby	5,331	0.50%
40	Eleanor	5,255	0.49%
41	Annie	5,090	0.48%
42	Peggy	5,076	0.48%
43	Florence	5,011	0.47%
44	June	5,002	0.47%
45	Janet	4,948	0.46%
46	Carol	4,892	0.46%
47	Lillian	4,807	0.45%
48	Rita	4,613	0.43%
49	Lorraine	4,588	0.43%
50	Jane	4,532	0.43%

Boys, 1931

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	60,519	5.82%
2	James	51,212	4.93%
3	John	48,423	4.66%
4	William	43,280	4.16%
5	Richard	31,822	3.06%
6	Charles	29,934	2.88%
7	Donald	29,100	2.80%
8	George	20,685	1.99%
9	Joseph	19,326	1.86%
10	Thomas	16,847	1.62%
11	Edward	15,646	1.50%
12	Paul	12,255	1.18%
13	David	11,784	1.13%
14	Kenneth	11,568	1.11%
15	Jack	11,488	1.10%
16	Frank	11,472	1.10%
17	Raymond	10,854	1.04%
18	Harold	10,695	1.03%
19	Billy	9,264	0.89%
20	Walter	8,940	0.86%
21	Eugene	8,151	0.78%
22	Henry	7,805	0.75%
23	Arthur	7,525	0.72%
24	Albert	7,131	0.69%
25	Ralph	6,960	0.67%
26	Gerald	6,823	0.66%
27	Ronald	6,726	0.65%
28	Carl	6,583	0.63%
29	Joe	6,456	0.62%
30	Harry	6,045	0.58%
31	Willie	5,963	0.57%
32	Bobby	5,858	0.56%
33	Fred	5,698	0.55%
34	Howard	5,624	0.54%
35	Roy	5,489	0.53%
36	Norman	5,426	0.52%
37	Louis	5,423	0.52%
38	Lawrence	5,364	0.52%
39	Clarence	5,062	0.49%
40	Earl	5,047	0.49%
41	Herbert	4,788	0.46%
42	Francis	4,735	0.46%
43	Jerry	4,371	0.42%
44	Daniel	4,360	0.42%
45	Marvin	4,360	0.42%
46	Anthony	4,310	0.41%
47	Ernest	4,298	0.41%
48	Leonard	4,279	0.41%
49	Stanley	4,202	0.40%
50	Alfred	3,949	0.38%

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.

← 1930 All years 1932 →

Get the free Name Kit

Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.

Make the kit

The book is in the works

A printed picture book where your child earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.

Preview the book