Top Names of 1931
The most popular names recorded in 1931 were Mary for girls
and Robert for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 60,299 |
| 2 | Betty | 36,105 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 26,524 |
| 4 | Barbara | 21,803 |
| 5 | Joan | 19,119 |
| 6 | Helen | 17,664 |
| 7 | Margaret | 17,332 |
| 8 | Patricia | 16,470 |
| 9 | Shirley | 14,405 |
| 10 | Doris | 13,629 |
| 11 | Ruth | 13,131 |
| 12 | Virginia | 11,886 |
| 13 | Jean | 11,013 |
| 14 | Dolores | 10,806 |
| 15 | Joyce | 10,580 |
| 16 | Elizabeth | 10,292 |
| 17 | Nancy | 10,036 |
| 18 | Frances | 9,718 |
| 19 | Marilyn | 9,664 |
| 20 | Lois | 9,348 |
| 21 | Alice | 8,816 |
| 22 | Norma | 8,759 |
| 23 | Gloria | 8,547 |
| 24 | Evelyn | 8,491 |
| 25 | Anna | 8,429 |
| 26 | Mildred | 8,170 |
| 27 | Marie | 7,549 |
| 28 | Martha | 7,482 |
| 29 | Phyllis | 7,213 |
| 30 | Rose | 6,881 |
| 31 | Beverly | 6,789 |
| 32 | Donna | 6,600 |
| 33 | Louise | 5,897 |
| 34 | Marjorie | 5,880 |
| 35 | Ann | 5,858 |
| 36 | Catherine | 5,642 |
| 37 | Irene | 5,616 |
| 38 | Geraldine | 5,413 |
| 39 | Ruby | 5,331 |
| 40 | Eleanor | 5,255 |
| 41 | Annie | 5,090 |
| 42 | Peggy | 5,077 |
| 43 | Florence | 5,011 |
| 44 | June | 5,002 |
| 45 | Janet | 4,948 |
| 46 | Carol | 4,891 |
| 47 | Lillian | 4,807 |
| 48 | Rita | 4,613 |
| 49 | Lorraine | 4,588 |
| 50 | Jane | 4,532 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Robert | 60,520 |
| 2 | James | 51,213 |
| 3 | John | 48,422 |
| 4 | William | 43,280 |
| 5 | Richard | 31,823 |
| 6 | Charles | 29,933 |
| 7 | Donald | 29,102 |
| 8 | George | 20,686 |
| 9 | Joseph | 19,327 |
| 10 | Thomas | 16,846 |
| 11 | Edward | 15,647 |
| 12 | Paul | 12,255 |
| 13 | David | 11,783 |
| 14 | Kenneth | 11,568 |
| 15 | Jack | 11,489 |
| 16 | Frank | 11,472 |
| 17 | Raymond | 10,854 |
| 18 | Harold | 10,694 |
| 19 | Billy | 9,263 |
| 20 | Walter | 8,940 |
| 21 | Eugene | 8,152 |
| 22 | Henry | 7,805 |
| 23 | Arthur | 7,525 |
| 24 | Albert | 7,131 |
| 25 | Ralph | 6,960 |
| 26 | Gerald | 6,823 |
| 27 | Ronald | 6,726 |
| 28 | Carl | 6,582 |
| 29 | Joe | 6,456 |
| 30 | Harry | 6,045 |
| 31 | Willie | 5,963 |
| 32 | Bobby | 5,858 |
| 33 | Fred | 5,698 |
| 34 | Howard | 5,623 |
| 35 | Roy | 5,489 |
| 36 | Norman | 5,426 |
| 37 | Louis | 5,424 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 5,364 |
| 39 | Clarence | 5,062 |
| 40 | Earl | 5,047 |
| 41 | Herbert | 4,788 |
| 42 | Francis | 4,735 |
| 43 | Jerry | 4,371 |
| 44 | Daniel | 4,360 |
| 45 | Marvin | 4,360 |
| 46 | Anthony | 4,310 |
| 47 | Ernest | 4,298 |
| 48 | Leonard | 4,279 |
| 49 | Stanley | 4,202 |
| 50 | Alfred | 3,949 |