Top Names of 1903
The most popular names recorded in 1903 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 14,275 |
| 2 | Helen | 6,129 |
| 3 | Anna | 5,098 |
| 4 | Margaret | 5,045 |
| 5 | Ruth | 4,517 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 3,724 |
| 7 | Marie | 3,469 |
| 8 | Florence | 3,468 |
| 9 | Ethel | 3,257 |
| 10 | Mildred | 3,088 |
| 11 | Dorothy | 3,078 |
| 12 | Alice | 2,996 |
| 13 | Lillian | 2,972 |
| 14 | Gladys | 2,674 |
| 15 | Edna | 2,667 |
| 16 | Grace | 2,616 |
| 17 | Annie | 2,551 |
| 18 | Rose | 2,478 |
| 19 | Frances | 2,365 |
| 20 | Clara | 2,342 |
| 21 | Bessie | 2,339 |
| 22 | Bertha | 2,309 |
| 23 | Emma | 2,308 |
| 24 | Gertrude | 2,253 |
| 25 | Mabel | 2,163 |
| 26 | Hazel | 2,139 |
| 27 | Pearl | 2,046 |
| 28 | Irene | 2,001 |
| 29 | Martha | 1,980 |
| 30 | Myrtle | 1,980 |
| 31 | Louise | 1,935 |
| 32 | Catherine | 1,916 |
| 33 | Edith | 1,901 |
| 34 | Esther | 1,883 |
| 35 | Minnie | 1,846 |
| 36 | Eva | 1,783 |
| 37 | Ida | 1,774 |
| 38 | Elsie | 1,720 |
| 39 | Agnes | 1,616 |
| 40 | Josephine | 1,587 |
| 41 | Sarah | 1,553 |
| 42 | Ruby | 1,538 |
| 43 | Laura | 1,503 |
| 44 | Viola | 1,495 |
| 45 | Nellie | 1,491 |
| 46 | Lillie | 1,485 |
| 47 | Thelma | 1,479 |
| 48 | Julia | 1,447 |
| 49 | Beatrice | 1,439 |
| 50 | Ella | 1,419 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 7,608 |
| 2 | William | 6,311 |
| 3 | James | 5,479 |
| 4 | George | 3,961 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,213 |
| 6 | Joseph | 3,121 |
| 7 | Robert | 3,044 |
| 8 | Frank | 2,644 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,268 |
| 10 | Thomas | 1,962 |
| 11 | Henry | 1,922 |
| 12 | Walter | 1,840 |
| 13 | Harry | 1,647 |
| 14 | Willie | 1,454 |
| 15 | Arthur | 1,435 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,337 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,261 |
| 18 | Fred | 1,204 |
| 19 | Paul | 1,081 |
| 20 | Harold | 1,065 |
| 21 | Raymond | 1,051 |
| 22 | Roy | 975 |
| 23 | Carl | 910 |
| 24 | Joe | 895 |
| 25 | Louis | 889 |
| 26 | Richard | 862 |
| 27 | Earl | 837 |
| 28 | Jack | 831 |
| 29 | Ralph | 807 |
| 30 | Ernest | 764 |
| 31 | Samuel | 741 |
| 32 | Charlie | 739 |
| 33 | David | 716 |
| 34 | Herbert | 668 |
| 35 | Francis | 665 |
| 36 | Theodore | 663 |
| 37 | Howard | 636 |
| 38 | Leo | 636 |
| 39 | Alfred | 557 |
| 40 | Elmer | 556 |
| 41 | Sam | 552 |
| 42 | Andrew | 550 |
| 43 | Lawrence | 536 |
| 44 | Eugene | 478 |
| 45 | Lee | 477 |
| 46 | Floyd | 472 |
| 47 | Michael | 466 |
| 48 | Herman | 449 |
| 49 | Leonard | 448 |
| 50 | Daniel | 432 |