Top Names of 1914
The most popular names recorded in 1914 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 45,346 |
| 2 | Helen | 23,221 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 18,782 |
| 4 | Margaret | 17,763 |
| 5 | Ruth | 15,839 |
| 6 | Anna | 11,865 |
| 7 | Mildred | 11,649 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 11,367 |
| 9 | Frances | 9,677 |
| 10 | Marie | 8,829 |
| 11 | Evelyn | 8,506 |
| 12 | Alice | 8,198 |
| 13 | Florence | 7,886 |
| 14 | Virginia | 7,601 |
| 15 | Rose | 7,574 |
| 16 | Lillian | 7,354 |
| 17 | Louise | 6,648 |
| 18 | Catherine | 6,613 |
| 19 | Edna | 6,289 |
| 20 | Gladys | 6,227 |
| 21 | Ethel | 6,204 |
| 22 | Irene | 6,197 |
| 23 | Josephine | 5,896 |
| 24 | Ruby | 5,625 |
| 25 | Grace | 5,594 |
| 26 | Thelma | 5,496 |
| 27 | Martha | 5,432 |
| 28 | Eleanor | 5,374 |
| 29 | Hazel | 5,324 |
| 30 | Lucille | 5,320 |
| 31 | Edith | 5,209 |
| 32 | Gertrude | 4,938 |
| 33 | Annie | 4,800 |
| 34 | Pauline | 4,698 |
| 35 | Esther | 4,654 |
| 36 | Doris | 4,429 |
| 37 | Clara | 4,240 |
| 38 | Beatrice | 4,232 |
| 39 | Emma | 3,972 |
| 40 | Ann | 3,888 |
| 41 | Bertha | 3,859 |
| 42 | Julia | 3,814 |
| 43 | Bernice | 3,730 |
| 44 | Agnes | 3,721 |
| 45 | Marjorie | 3,713 |
| 46 | Elsie | 3,683 |
| 47 | Sarah | 3,679 |
| 48 | Katherine | 3,652 |
| 49 | Ida | 3,561 |
| 50 | Marion | 3,550 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 37,947 |
| 2 | William | 29,753 |
| 3 | James | 26,262 |
| 4 | Robert | 21,188 |
| 5 | Joseph | 18,829 |
| 6 | George | 17,602 |
| 7 | Charles | 16,937 |
| 8 | Edward | 12,319 |
| 9 | Frank | 12,002 |
| 10 | Walter | 8,962 |
| 11 | Thomas | 8,850 |
| 12 | Henry | 8,110 |
| 13 | Paul | 7,733 |
| 14 | Harold | 7,563 |
| 15 | Albert | 6,942 |
| 16 | Raymond | 6,821 |
| 17 | Richard | 6,669 |
| 18 | Arthur | 6,641 |
| 19 | Harry | 6,588 |
| 20 | Louis | 5,495 |
| 21 | Ralph | 5,009 |
| 22 | Clarence | 4,909 |
| 23 | Donald | 4,835 |
| 24 | Carl | 4,807 |
| 25 | Willie | 4,709 |
| 26 | Howard | 4,490 |
| 27 | Jack | 4,486 |
| 28 | Fred | 4,441 |
| 29 | David | 4,251 |
| 30 | Kenneth | 4,178 |
| 31 | Francis | 3,901 |
| 32 | Roy | 3,852 |
| 33 | Earl | 3,842 |
| 34 | Joe | 3,712 |
| 35 | Lawrence | 3,703 |
| 36 | Samuel | 3,703 |
| 37 | Anthony | 3,695 |
| 38 | Ernest | 3,632 |
| 39 | Stanley | 3,559 |
| 40 | Michael | 3,362 |
| 41 | Alfred | 3,347 |
| 42 | Herbert | 3,253 |
| 43 | Eugene | 3,211 |
| 44 | Andrew | 2,965 |
| 45 | Leonard | 2,923 |
| 46 | Elmer | 2,878 |
| 47 | Leo | 2,655 |
| 48 | Peter | 2,624 |
| 49 | Russell | 2,568 |
| 50 | Bernard | 2,436 |