Top Names of 1925
The most popular names recorded in 1925 were Mary for girls
and Robert for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 70,586 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 38,570 |
| 3 | Betty | 32,812 |
| 4 | Helen | 29,173 |
| 5 | Margaret | 24,462 |
| 6 | Ruth | 22,247 |
| 7 | Virginia | 17,490 |
| 8 | Doris | 16,075 |
| 9 | Mildred | 14,453 |
| 10 | Elizabeth | 13,936 |
| 11 | Frances | 13,825 |
| 12 | Evelyn | 12,505 |
| 13 | Anna | 12,250 |
| 14 | Jean | 11,598 |
| 15 | Alice | 11,576 |
| 16 | Marie | 10,930 |
| 17 | Shirley | 10,513 |
| 18 | Lois | 9,573 |
| 19 | Irene | 9,440 |
| 20 | Gloria | 9,381 |
| 21 | Marjorie | 9,306 |
| 22 | Barbara | 9,155 |
| 23 | Martha | 8,762 |
| 24 | Florence | 8,585 |
| 25 | Lillian | 8,352 |
| 26 | Rose | 8,280 |
| 27 | Louise | 8,276 |
| 28 | Patricia | 8,096 |
| 29 | Catherine | 7,867 |
| 30 | Ruby | 7,843 |
| 31 | Eleanor | 7,724 |
| 32 | Annie | 7,350 |
| 33 | Gladys | 7,231 |
| 34 | Norma | 6,941 |
| 35 | Thelma | 6,823 |
| 36 | Josephine | 6,810 |
| 37 | Edna | 6,781 |
| 38 | Pauline | 6,728 |
| 39 | June | 6,649 |
| 40 | Phyllis | 6,486 |
| 41 | Lucille | 6,397 |
| 42 | Edith | 6,275 |
| 43 | Ethel | 6,176 |
| 44 | Grace | 5,983 |
| 45 | Hazel | 5,778 |
| 46 | Bernice | 5,728 |
| 47 | Marion | 5,577 |
| 48 | Rita | 5,323 |
| 49 | Juanita | 5,232 |
| 50 | Beatrice | 4,992 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Robert | 60,896 |
| 2 | John | 57,195 |
| 3 | William | 53,309 |
| 4 | James | 52,679 |
| 5 | Charles | 29,580 |
| 6 | George | 26,561 |
| 7 | Joseph | 24,614 |
| 8 | Richard | 23,269 |
| 9 | Edward | 20,090 |
| 10 | Donald | 19,193 |
| 11 | Thomas | 16,688 |
| 12 | Frank | 15,329 |
| 13 | Paul | 14,174 |
| 14 | Harold | 13,597 |
| 15 | Raymond | 12,442 |
| 16 | Walter | 12,130 |
| 17 | Jack | 12,011 |
| 18 | Henry | 10,618 |
| 19 | Kenneth | 10,146 |
| 20 | Arthur | 9,986 |
| 21 | Albert | 9,511 |
| 22 | David | 8,915 |
| 23 | Harry | 8,611 |
| 24 | Eugene | 8,517 |
| 25 | Ralph | 8,467 |
| 26 | Howard | 7,171 |
| 27 | Willie | 7,124 |
| 28 | Carl | 7,061 |
| 29 | Louis | 6,798 |
| 30 | Clarence | 6,670 |
| 31 | Earl | 6,436 |
| 32 | Roy | 6,376 |
| 33 | Fred | 6,205 |
| 34 | Joe | 6,107 |
| 35 | Francis | 5,978 |
| 36 | Lawrence | 5,633 |
| 37 | Ernest | 5,494 |
| 38 | Leonard | 5,465 |
| 39 | Anthony | 5,041 |
| 40 | Stanley | 5,030 |
| 41 | Norman | 4,975 |
| 42 | Herbert | 4,924 |
| 43 | Alfred | 4,796 |
| 44 | Daniel | 4,548 |
| 45 | Gerald | 4,507 |
| 46 | Samuel | 4,405 |
| 47 | Calvin | 4,301 |
| 48 | Bernard | 4,259 |
| 49 | Billy | 4,207 |
| 50 | Melvin | 4,146 |