Top Names of 1922
The most popular names recorded in 1922 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 72,176 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 37,716 |
| 3 | Helen | 32,510 |
| 4 | Margaret | 26,862 |
| 5 | Ruth | 23,633 |
| 6 | Betty | 20,894 |
| 7 | Virginia | 19,144 |
| 8 | Mildred | 16,412 |
| 9 | Elizabeth | 15,243 |
| 10 | Frances | 15,054 |
| 11 | Doris | 13,798 |
| 12 | Anna | 13,408 |
| 13 | Evelyn | 13,319 |
| 14 | Marie | 11,912 |
| 15 | Alice | 11,277 |
| 16 | Marjorie | 10,385 |
| 17 | Irene | 10,173 |
| 18 | Florence | 10,036 |
| 19 | Lillian | 9,430 |
| 20 | Jean | 9,109 |
| 21 | Martha | 9,021 |
| 22 | Louise | 8,886 |
| 23 | Rose | 8,791 |
| 24 | Catherine | 8,537 |
| 25 | Gladys | 8,042 |
| 26 | Ruby | 8,003 |
| 27 | Josephine | 7,864 |
| 28 | Eleanor | 7,852 |
| 29 | Edna | 7,622 |
| 30 | Annie | 7,476 |
| 31 | Thelma | 7,254 |
| 32 | Ethel | 7,246 |
| 33 | Lucille | 7,151 |
| 34 | Edith | 7,136 |
| 35 | Lois | 6,946 |
| 36 | Pauline | 6,811 |
| 37 | Hazel | 6,757 |
| 38 | Grace | 6,743 |
| 39 | Shirley | 6,407 |
| 40 | Barbara | 6,272 |
| 41 | Bernice | 5,912 |
| 42 | Marion | 5,667 |
| 43 | Beatrice | 5,476 |
| 44 | Esther | 5,474 |
| 45 | June | 5,382 |
| 46 | Norma | 5,238 |
| 47 | Clara | 5,126 |
| 48 | Gertrude | 5,082 |
| 49 | Ann | 5,054 |
| 50 | Emma | 5,013 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 57,281 |
| 2 | Robert | 53,796 |
| 3 | William | 51,112 |
| 4 | James | 49,803 |
| 5 | Charles | 28,839 |
| 6 | George | 27,350 |
| 7 | Joseph | 25,699 |
| 8 | Edward | 20,419 |
| 9 | Richard | 17,537 |
| 10 | Frank | 16,013 |
| 11 | Thomas | 15,261 |
| 12 | Donald | 14,913 |
| 13 | Harold | 13,593 |
| 14 | Paul | 12,922 |
| 15 | Walter | 12,631 |
| 16 | Raymond | 12,129 |
| 17 | Henry | 11,207 |
| 18 | Jack | 10,847 |
| 19 | Arthur | 10,114 |
| 20 | Albert | 9,896 |
| 21 | Kenneth | 9,258 |
| 22 | Harry | 9,077 |
| 23 | Ralph | 8,484 |
| 24 | David | 7,865 |
| 25 | Eugene | 7,849 |
| 26 | Howard | 7,296 |
| 27 | Louis | 7,095 |
| 28 | Willie | 6,904 |
| 29 | Clarence | 6,861 |
| 30 | Carl | 6,690 |
| 31 | Earl | 6,461 |
| 32 | Roy | 6,458 |
| 33 | Fred | 6,245 |
| 34 | Francis | 6,147 |
| 35 | Joe | 6,089 |
| 36 | Lawrence | 5,786 |
| 37 | Ernest | 5,503 |
| 38 | Leonard | 5,407 |
| 39 | Anthony | 5,091 |
| 40 | Herbert | 5,047 |
| 41 | Stanley | 5,045 |
| 42 | Alfred | 4,833 |
| 43 | Samuel | 4,600 |
| 44 | Norman | 4,527 |
| 45 | Warren | 4,484 |
| 46 | Bernard | 4,409 |
| 47 | Daniel | 4,285 |
| 48 | Michael | 3,990 |
| 49 | Russell | 3,965 |
| 50 | Melvin | 3,908 |