Top Names of 1912
The most popular names recorded in 1912 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 32,304 |
| 2 | Helen | 16,133 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 12,645 |
| 4 | Margaret | 12,536 |
| 5 | Ruth | 11,280 |
| 6 | Mildred | 8,764 |
| 7 | Anna | 8,586 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 8,527 |
| 9 | Frances | 6,680 |
| 10 | Marie | 6,642 |
| 11 | Alice | 6,285 |
| 12 | Florence | 5,739 |
| 13 | Evelyn | 5,620 |
| 14 | Lillian | 5,568 |
| 15 | Rose | 5,431 |
| 16 | Edna | 5,136 |
| 17 | Louise | 5,116 |
| 18 | Ethel | 5,073 |
| 19 | Gladys | 4,980 |
| 20 | Virginia | 4,810 |
| 21 | Catherine | 4,666 |
| 22 | Irene | 4,646 |
| 23 | Ruby | 4,452 |
| 24 | Grace | 4,418 |
| 25 | Hazel | 4,197 |
| 26 | Thelma | 4,183 |
| 27 | Annie | 4,083 |
| 28 | Josephine | 3,980 |
| 29 | Martha | 3,911 |
| 30 | Gertrude | 3,887 |
| 31 | Edith | 3,842 |
| 32 | Lucille | 3,763 |
| 33 | Esther | 3,569 |
| 34 | Clara | 3,480 |
| 35 | Emma | 3,357 |
| 36 | Bertha | 3,288 |
| 37 | Beatrice | 3,205 |
| 38 | Pauline | 3,163 |
| 39 | Eleanor | 3,120 |
| 40 | Agnes | 2,945 |
| 41 | Sarah | 2,919 |
| 42 | Elsie | 2,895 |
| 43 | Bessie | 2,832 |
| 44 | Julia | 2,825 |
| 45 | Ida | 2,740 |
| 46 | Mabel | 2,714 |
| 47 | Ann | 2,666 |
| 48 | Doris | 2,657 |
| 49 | Eva | 2,636 |
| 50 | Myrtle | 2,599 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 24,588 |
| 2 | William | 19,626 |
| 3 | James | 17,644 |
| 4 | Robert | 12,836 |
| 5 | Joseph | 12,062 |
| 6 | George | 11,734 |
| 7 | Charles | 11,070 |
| 8 | Edward | 7,936 |
| 9 | Frank | 7,912 |
| 10 | Thomas | 6,087 |
| 11 | Walter | 5,809 |
| 12 | Henry | 5,643 |
| 13 | Harold | 5,102 |
| 14 | Paul | 4,785 |
| 15 | Arthur | 4,685 |
| 16 | Harry | 4,624 |
| 17 | Albert | 4,587 |
| 18 | Raymond | 4,374 |
| 19 | Richard | 4,188 |
| 20 | Louis | 3,591 |
| 21 | Clarence | 3,590 |
| 22 | Willie | 3,508 |
| 23 | Ralph | 3,435 |
| 24 | Carl | 3,224 |
| 25 | Howard | 3,212 |
| 26 | Fred | 3,103 |
| 27 | Donald | 2,872 |
| 28 | Jack | 2,870 |
| 29 | David | 2,858 |
| 30 | Samuel | 2,602 |
| 31 | Roy | 2,591 |
| 32 | Ernest | 2,569 |
| 33 | Kenneth | 2,538 |
| 34 | Earl | 2,518 |
| 35 | Francis | 2,516 |
| 36 | Joe | 2,515 |
| 37 | Anthony | 2,480 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 2,467 |
| 39 | Herbert | 2,236 |
| 40 | Alfred | 2,210 |
| 41 | Eugene | 2,114 |
| 42 | Michael | 2,104 |
| 43 | Stanley | 2,017 |
| 44 | Andrew | 1,946 |
| 45 | Leonard | 1,928 |
| 46 | Woodrow | 1,843 |
| 47 | Elmer | 1,840 |
| 48 | Peter | 1,679 |
| 49 | Leo | 1,654 |
| 50 | Herman | 1,646 |