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Baby names of 1907

Mary and John topped the lists in 1907, out of 465,390 births recorded across 3,592 different names. That is 8.6% more than the 1906 files hold.

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Girls

#NameBirths
1Mary17,580
2Helen7,579
3Margaret6,713
4Anna5,575
5Ruth5,573
6Dorothy4,967
7Elizabeth4,624
8Mildred4,277
9Alice4,107
10Marie3,880
11Florence3,750
12Ethel3,698
13Lillian3,542
14Gladys3,303
15Edna3,301
16Frances3,299
17Rose3,116
18Evelyn3,035
19Annie2,891
20Grace2,747
21Louise2,619
22Irene2,617
23Hazel2,530
24Gertrude2,499
25Catherine2,457

All 200 girls’ names of 1907 (2,399 recorded)

Boys

#NameBirths
1John8,983
2William6,904
3James6,707
4George4,445
5Robert4,020
6Charles3,884
7Joseph3,844
8Frank2,943
9Edward2,576
10Henry2,203
11Thomas2,174
12Walter2,095
13Willie1,968
14Harry1,813
15Albert1,636
16Arthur1,553
17Harold1,452
18Clarence1,389
19Fred1,371
20Paul1,358
21Raymond1,290
22Richard1,235
23Joe1,177
24Roy1,128
25Louis1,111

All 200 boys’ names of 1907 (1,549 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1906:

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1906:

Irene is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 1907, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1907:

Luverne is here because the girls’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 1907, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1907:

Aime is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.