Top Names of 1926
The most popular names recorded in 1926 were Mary for girls
and Robert for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 67,833 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 36,618 |
| 3 | Betty | 32,964 |
| 4 | Helen | 26,885 |
| 5 | Margaret | 23,073 |
| 6 | Ruth | 20,225 |
| 7 | Doris | 16,295 |
| 8 | Virginia | 16,161 |
| 9 | Mildred | 13,548 |
| 10 | Frances | 13,355 |
| 11 | Elizabeth | 12,837 |
| 12 | Jean | 12,168 |
| 13 | Evelyn | 11,780 |
| 14 | Shirley | 11,761 |
| 15 | Anna | 11,698 |
| 16 | Barbara | 11,079 |
| 17 | Alice | 10,956 |
| 18 | Marie | 10,629 |
| 19 | Lois | 9,817 |
| 20 | Gloria | 9,199 |
| 21 | Irene | 9,169 |
| 22 | Marjorie | 8,640 |
| 23 | Patricia | 8,586 |
| 24 | Martha | 8,556 |
| 25 | Rose | 8,509 |
| 26 | Florence | 8,178 |
| 27 | Louise | 7,979 |
| 28 | Lillian | 7,661 |
| 29 | Norma | 7,528 |
| 30 | Ruby | 7,476 |
| 31 | Catherine | 7,469 |
| 32 | Eleanor | 7,305 |
| 33 | Phyllis | 6,921 |
| 34 | Annie | 6,877 |
| 35 | Gladys | 6,634 |
| 36 | Thelma | 6,584 |
| 37 | Josephine | 6,410 |
| 38 | Edna | 6,396 |
| 39 | Pauline | 6,357 |
| 40 | June | 6,077 |
| 41 | Ethel | 5,856 |
| 42 | Edith | 5,786 |
| 43 | Lucille | 5,760 |
| 44 | Joyce | 5,704 |
| 45 | Bernice | 5,443 |
| 46 | Grace | 5,427 |
| 47 | Marion | 5,353 |
| 48 | Hazel | 5,303 |
| 49 | Dolores | 5,219 |
| 50 | Rita | 5,015 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Robert | 61,130 |
| 2 | John | 56,108 |
| 3 | James | 53,197 |
| 4 | William | 51,922 |
| 5 | Charles | 29,521 |
| 6 | George | 25,909 |
| 7 | Richard | 25,143 |
| 8 | Joseph | 23,756 |
| 9 | Donald | 20,912 |
| 10 | Edward | 19,375 |
| 11 | Thomas | 16,592 |
| 12 | Frank | 14,493 |
| 13 | Paul | 13,653 |
| 14 | Harold | 13,311 |
| 15 | Raymond | 12,809 |
| 16 | Jack | 12,195 |
| 17 | Walter | 11,774 |
| 18 | Kenneth | 10,342 |
| 19 | Henry | 9,994 |
| 20 | Arthur | 9,465 |
| 21 | Albert | 9,146 |
| 22 | David | 9,041 |
| 23 | Eugene | 9,016 |
| 24 | Ralph | 8,455 |
| 25 | Harry | 8,215 |
| 26 | Carl | 6,939 |
| 27 | Howard | 6,836 |
| 28 | Willie | 6,820 |
| 29 | Clarence | 6,537 |
| 30 | Louis | 6,513 |
| 31 | Fred | 6,447 |
| 32 | Earl | 6,441 |
| 33 | Joe | 6,338 |
| 34 | Roy | 6,224 |
| 35 | Francis | 5,789 |
| 36 | Lawrence | 5,582 |
| 37 | Ernest | 5,436 |
| 38 | Leonard | 5,402 |
| 39 | Norman | 5,282 |
| 40 | Billy | 5,180 |
| 41 | Gerald | 5,123 |
| 42 | Anthony | 5,058 |
| 43 | Stanley | 4,966 |
| 44 | Herbert | 4,939 |
| 45 | Alfred | 4,726 |
| 46 | Daniel | 4,516 |
| 47 | Melvin | 4,194 |
| 48 | Samuel | 4,179 |
| 49 | Bernard | 4,172 |
| 50 | Marvin | 4,111 |