Top Names of 1920
The most popular names recorded in 1920 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 70,983 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 36,643 |
| 3 | Helen | 35,097 |
| 4 | Margaret | 27,994 |
| 5 | Ruth | 26,102 |
| 6 | Mildred | 18,060 |
| 7 | Virginia | 17,314 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 15,908 |
| 9 | Frances | 15,883 |
| 10 | Anna | 14,581 |
| 11 | Betty | 14,016 |
| 12 | Evelyn | 13,838 |
| 13 | Marie | 12,743 |
| 14 | Doris | 11,892 |
| 15 | Alice | 11,596 |
| 16 | Florence | 10,731 |
| 17 | Irene | 10,072 |
| 18 | Lillian | 10,049 |
| 19 | Louise | 9,179 |
| 20 | Rose | 9,011 |
| 21 | Catherine | 8,878 |
| 22 | Gladys | 8,819 |
| 23 | Martha | 8,709 |
| 24 | Marjorie | 8,658 |
| 25 | Eleanor | 8,497 |
| 26 | Ruby | 8,336 |
| 27 | Edna | 8,331 |
| 28 | Josephine | 8,093 |
| 29 | Lucille | 7,989 |
| 30 | Ethel | 7,868 |
| 31 | Thelma | 7,814 |
| 32 | Edith | 7,773 |
| 33 | Jean | 7,714 |
| 34 | Hazel | 7,308 |
| 35 | Annie | 7,268 |
| 36 | Pauline | 7,180 |
| 37 | Grace | 7,172 |
| 38 | Lois | 6,560 |
| 39 | Esther | 6,068 |
| 40 | Bernice | 5,928 |
| 41 | Beatrice | 5,804 |
| 42 | Gertrude | 5,797 |
| 43 | Marion | 5,745 |
| 44 | Clara | 5,470 |
| 45 | Katherine | 5,276 |
| 46 | Emma | 5,238 |
| 47 | Barbara | 5,106 |
| 48 | Jane | 5,054 |
| 49 | Ann | 5,041 |
| 50 | Sarah | 5,031 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 56,913 |
| 2 | William | 50,146 |
| 3 | Robert | 48,679 |
| 4 | James | 47,908 |
| 5 | Charles | 28,309 |
| 6 | George | 26,891 |
| 7 | Joseph | 25,587 |
| 8 | Edward | 20,097 |
| 9 | Frank | 16,430 |
| 10 | Richard | 15,010 |
| 11 | Thomas | 14,936 |
| 12 | Harold | 13,678 |
| 13 | Walter | 13,294 |
| 14 | Paul | 12,570 |
| 15 | Raymond | 12,193 |
| 16 | Donald | 11,941 |
| 17 | Henry | 11,305 |
| 18 | Arthur | 10,236 |
| 19 | Albert | 9,997 |
| 20 | Jack | 9,599 |
| 21 | Harry | 9,406 |
| 22 | Ralph | 8,556 |
| 23 | Kenneth | 7,840 |
| 24 | Howard | 7,466 |
| 25 | David | 7,444 |
| 26 | Clarence | 7,221 |
| 27 | Carl | 7,010 |
| 28 | Louis | 6,966 |
| 29 | Willie | 6,887 |
| 30 | Eugene | 6,867 |
| 31 | Earl | 6,533 |
| 32 | Roy | 6,355 |
| 33 | Fred | 6,298 |
| 34 | Francis | 6,241 |
| 35 | Joe | 6,071 |
| 36 | Lawrence | 5,727 |
| 37 | Ernest | 5,566 |
| 38 | Leonard | 5,511 |
| 39 | Warren | 5,492 |
| 40 | Stanley | 5,314 |
| 41 | Herbert | 5,249 |
| 42 | Alfred | 5,006 |
| 43 | Anthony | 4,944 |
| 44 | Samuel | 4,654 |
| 45 | Elmer | 4,206 |
| 46 | Bernard | 4,163 |
| 47 | Norman | 4,109 |
| 48 | Leo | 4,054 |
| 49 | Andrew | 4,026 |
| 50 | Michael | 4,003 |