Top Names of 1915
The most popular names recorded in 1915 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 58,187 |
| 2 | Helen | 30,866 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 25,154 |
| 4 | Margaret | 23,054 |
| 5 | Ruth | 21,878 |
| 6 | Mildred | 15,254 |
| 7 | Anna | 15,119 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 14,103 |
| 9 | Frances | 12,786 |
| 10 | Evelyn | 11,595 |
| 11 | Marie | 11,363 |
| 12 | Virginia | 10,952 |
| 13 | Alice | 10,525 |
| 14 | Florence | 10,105 |
| 15 | Lillian | 9,546 |
| 16 | Rose | 9,375 |
| 17 | Irene | 8,323 |
| 18 | Louise | 8,313 |
| 19 | Catherine | 8,181 |
| 20 | Edna | 8,144 |
| 21 | Gladys | 7,857 |
| 22 | Josephine | 7,606 |
| 23 | Ethel | 7,379 |
| 24 | Ruby | 7,237 |
| 25 | Martha | 7,216 |
| 26 | Hazel | 7,092 |
| 27 | Grace | 7,044 |
| 28 | Eleanor | 7,036 |
| 29 | Lucille | 7,006 |
| 30 | Thelma | 6,762 |
| 31 | Edith | 6,761 |
| 32 | Pauline | 6,334 |
| 33 | Esther | 6,321 |
| 34 | Doris | 6,292 |
| 35 | Gertrude | 6,077 |
| 36 | Annie | 5,936 |
| 37 | Beatrice | 5,342 |
| 38 | Clara | 5,285 |
| 39 | Marjorie | 5,119 |
| 40 | Emma | 5,044 |
| 41 | Elsie | 4,967 |
| 42 | Bernice | 4,937 |
| 43 | Ann | 4,895 |
| 44 | Julia | 4,831 |
| 45 | Agnes | 4,795 |
| 46 | Bertha | 4,785 |
| 47 | Lois | 4,775 |
| 48 | Jean | 4,603 |
| 49 | Katherine | 4,488 |
| 50 | Marion | 4,456 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 47,576 |
| 2 | William | 38,563 |
| 3 | James | 33,773 |
| 4 | Robert | 28,737 |
| 5 | Joseph | 23,051 |
| 6 | George | 22,307 |
| 7 | Charles | 21,960 |
| 8 | Edward | 15,889 |
| 9 | Frank | 15,006 |
| 10 | Thomas | 11,490 |
| 11 | Walter | 11,255 |
| 12 | Harold | 10,444 |
| 13 | Paul | 10,328 |
| 14 | Henry | 10,138 |
| 15 | Richard | 9,143 |
| 16 | Raymond | 8,981 |
| 17 | Albert | 8,825 |
| 18 | Arthur | 8,564 |
| 19 | Harry | 8,470 |
| 20 | Donald | 7,115 |
| 21 | Ralph | 6,816 |
| 22 | Carl | 6,613 |
| 23 | Louis | 6,518 |
| 24 | Clarence | 6,267 |
| 25 | Howard | 6,103 |
| 26 | Fred | 5,778 |
| 27 | Jack | 5,748 |
| 28 | Kenneth | 5,681 |
| 29 | Francis | 5,594 |
| 30 | Willie | 5,434 |
| 31 | David | 5,394 |
| 32 | Roy | 5,052 |
| 33 | Earl | 4,908 |
| 34 | Stanley | 4,807 |
| 35 | Ernest | 4,787 |
| 36 | Anthony | 4,722 |
| 37 | Lawrence | 4,688 |
| 38 | Joe | 4,648 |
| 39 | Samuel | 4,351 |
| 40 | Herbert | 4,341 |
| 41 | Eugene | 4,321 |
| 42 | Alfred | 4,231 |
| 43 | Michael | 4,079 |
| 44 | Leonard | 3,993 |
| 45 | Elmer | 3,802 |
| 46 | Andrew | 3,573 |
| 47 | Leo | 3,527 |
| 48 | Bernard | 3,302 |
| 49 | Peter | 3,302 |
| 50 | Norman | 3,262 |