Top Names of 1921
The most popular names recorded in 1921 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 73,984 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 39,087 |
| 3 | Helen | 34,822 |
| 4 | Margaret | 28,468 |
| 5 | Ruth | 25,783 |
| 6 | Virginia | 19,032 |
| 7 | Mildred | 17,880 |
| 8 | Betty | 17,638 |
| 9 | Frances | 15,993 |
| 10 | Elizabeth | 15,800 |
| 11 | Anna | 14,476 |
| 12 | Evelyn | 14,278 |
| 13 | Doris | 13,152 |
| 14 | Marie | 12,501 |
| 15 | Alice | 11,955 |
| 16 | Marjorie | 11,209 |
| 17 | Florence | 10,720 |
| 18 | Irene | 10,624 |
| 19 | Lillian | 9,770 |
| 20 | Rose | 9,352 |
| 21 | Martha | 9,264 |
| 22 | Louise | 9,180 |
| 23 | Catherine | 8,887 |
| 24 | Gladys | 8,814 |
| 25 | Jean | 8,592 |
| 26 | Ruby | 8,333 |
| 27 | Edna | 8,302 |
| 28 | Josephine | 8,135 |
| 29 | Eleanor | 8,054 |
| 30 | Thelma | 7,839 |
| 31 | Lucille | 7,698 |
| 32 | Ethel | 7,603 |
| 33 | Edith | 7,589 |
| 34 | Hazel | 7,341 |
| 35 | Grace | 7,230 |
| 36 | Annie | 7,209 |
| 37 | Pauline | 7,142 |
| 38 | Lois | 6,899 |
| 39 | Bernice | 6,190 |
| 40 | Barbara | 6,013 |
| 41 | Beatrice | 5,968 |
| 42 | Esther | 5,926 |
| 43 | Marion | 5,814 |
| 44 | Shirley | 5,695 |
| 45 | Clara | 5,606 |
| 46 | Gertrude | 5,349 |
| 47 | Jane | 5,188 |
| 48 | Rita | 5,157 |
| 49 | Katherine | 5,156 |
| 50 | June | 5,155 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 58,215 |
| 2 | Robert | 52,779 |
| 3 | William | 51,862 |
| 4 | James | 49,750 |
| 5 | Charles | 29,242 |
| 6 | George | 27,476 |
| 7 | Joseph | 26,182 |
| 8 | Edward | 20,817 |
| 9 | Frank | 16,705 |
| 10 | Richard | 16,376 |
| 11 | Thomas | 15,308 |
| 12 | Harold | 13,811 |
| 13 | Donald | 13,776 |
| 14 | Paul | 13,169 |
| 15 | Walter | 13,004 |
| 16 | Raymond | 12,645 |
| 17 | Henry | 11,411 |
| 18 | Jack | 10,757 |
| 19 | Arthur | 10,527 |
| 20 | Albert | 10,158 |
| 21 | Harry | 9,731 |
| 22 | Kenneth | 8,959 |
| 23 | Ralph | 8,860 |
| 24 | Warren | 7,798 |
| 25 | David | 7,765 |
| 26 | Eugene | 7,717 |
| 27 | Howard | 7,713 |
| 28 | Clarence | 7,332 |
| 29 | Louis | 7,247 |
| 30 | Carl | 7,077 |
| 31 | Earl | 6,754 |
| 32 | Roy | 6,545 |
| 33 | Fred | 6,496 |
| 34 | Willie | 6,491 |
| 35 | Francis | 6,293 |
| 36 | Joe | 6,204 |
| 37 | Lawrence | 5,977 |
| 38 | Ernest | 5,697 |
| 39 | Leonard | 5,650 |
| 40 | Anthony | 5,239 |
| 41 | Stanley | 5,231 |
| 42 | Herbert | 5,217 |
| 43 | Alfred | 4,925 |
| 44 | Samuel | 4,754 |
| 45 | Bernard | 4,485 |
| 46 | Norman | 4,479 |
| 47 | Michael | 4,198 |
| 48 | Elmer | 4,146 |
| 49 | Daniel | 4,087 |
| 50 | Leo | 4,066 |