Top Names of 1909
The most popular names recorded in 1909 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 19,259 |
| 2 | Helen | 9,250 |
| 3 | Margaret | 7,358 |
| 4 | Ruth | 6,509 |
| 5 | Dorothy | 6,253 |
| 6 | Anna | 5,804 |
| 7 | Elizabeth | 5,176 |
| 8 | Mildred | 5,054 |
| 9 | Marie | 4,301 |
| 10 | Alice | 4,170 |
| 11 | Florence | 3,789 |
| 12 | Frances | 3,780 |
| 13 | Ethel | 3,661 |
| 14 | Lillian | 3,596 |
| 15 | Gladys | 3,538 |
| 16 | Edna | 3,429 |
| 17 | Rose | 3,374 |
| 18 | Evelyn | 3,157 |
| 19 | Louise | 3,019 |
| 20 | Irene | 2,961 |
| 21 | Grace | 2,912 |
| 22 | Annie | 2,904 |
| 23 | Catherine | 2,897 |
| 24 | Hazel | 2,708 |
| 25 | Gertrude | 2,622 |
| 26 | Thelma | 2,612 |
| 27 | Ruby | 2,524 |
| 28 | Martha | 2,510 |
| 29 | Bertha | 2,444 |
| 30 | Virginia | 2,420 |
| 31 | Josephine | 2,416 |
| 32 | Clara | 2,403 |
| 33 | Edith | 2,371 |
| 34 | Emma | 2,338 |
| 35 | Bessie | 2,276 |
| 36 | Lucille | 2,192 |
| 37 | Esther | 2,185 |
| 38 | Beatrice | 2,105 |
| 39 | Elsie | 2,064 |
| 40 | Pearl | 2,048 |
| 41 | Mabel | 2,007 |
| 42 | Agnes | 1,974 |
| 43 | Myrtle | 1,950 |
| 44 | Ida | 1,943 |
| 45 | Julia | 1,931 |
| 46 | Viola | 1,926 |
| 47 | Eva | 1,896 |
| 48 | Pauline | 1,896 |
| 49 | Sarah | 1,845 |
| 50 | Minnie | 1,779 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,590 |
| 2 | William | 7,913 |
| 3 | James | 7,595 |
| 4 | George | 4,688 |
| 5 | Robert | 4,563 |
| 6 | Joseph | 4,348 |
| 7 | Charles | 4,029 |
| 8 | Frank | 3,244 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,935 |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,468 |
| 11 | Henry | 2,411 |
| 12 | Walter | 2,287 |
| 13 | Willie | 2,175 |
| 14 | Harry | 1,924 |
| 15 | Albert | 1,816 |
| 16 | Harold | 1,725 |
| 17 | Paul | 1,676 |
| 18 | Arthur | 1,665 |
| 19 | Clarence | 1,518 |
| 20 | Raymond | 1,441 |
| 21 | Richard | 1,427 |
| 22 | Fred | 1,355 |
| 23 | Joe | 1,292 |
| 24 | Louis | 1,231 |
| 25 | Carl | 1,215 |
| 26 | Howard | 1,166 |
| 27 | Jack | 1,150 |
| 28 | Roy | 1,135 |
| 29 | David | 1,094 |
| 30 | Ralph | 1,091 |
| 31 | Earl | 1,007 |
| 32 | Samuel | 983 |
| 33 | Francis | 886 |
| 34 | Ernest | 885 |
| 35 | Lawrence | 854 |
| 36 | Charlie | 833 |
| 37 | Herbert | 831 |
| 38 | Andrew | 766 |
| 39 | Alfred | 763 |
| 40 | Anthony | 758 |
| 41 | Kenneth | 746 |
| 42 | Donald | 725 |
| 43 | Eugene | 724 |
| 44 | Sam | 700 |
| 45 | Elmer | 687 |
| 46 | Leonard | 665 |
| 47 | Michael | 635 |
| 48 | Herman | 618 |
| 49 | Leo | 609 |
| 50 | Stanley | 607 |