Baby names of 1914
Mary and John topped the lists in 1914, out of 1,416,343 births recorded across 7,161 different names. That is 24.6% more than the 1913 files hold. About 30 of them are alive today.
Girls
| # | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | 45,346 |
| 2 | Helen | 23,221 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 18,782 |
| 4 | Margaret | 17,763 |
| 5 | Ruth | 15,839 |
| 6 | Anna | 11,865 |
| 7 | Mildred | 11,649 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 11,367 |
| 9 | Frances | 9,677 |
| 10 | Marie | 8,829 |
| 11 | Evelyn | 8,506 |
| 12 | Alice | 8,198 |
| 13 | Florence | 7,886 |
| 14 | Virginia | 7,601 |
| 15 | Rose | 7,574 |
| 16 | Lillian | 7,354 |
| 17 | Louise | 6,648 |
| 18 | Catherine | 6,613 |
| 19 | Edna | 6,289 |
| 20 | Gladys | 6,227 |
| 21 | Ethel | 6,204 |
| 22 | Irene | 6,197 |
| 23 | Josephine | 5,896 |
| 24 | Ruby | 5,625 |
| 25 | Grace | 5,594 |
All 200 girls’ names of 1914 (4,206 recorded)
Boys
| # | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | 37,947 |
| 2 | William | 29,753 |
| 3 | James | 26,262 |
| 4 | Robert | 21,188 |
| 5 | Joseph | 18,829 |
| 6 | George | 17,602 |
| 7 | Charles | 16,937 |
| 8 | Edward | 12,319 |
| 9 | Frank | 12,002 |
| 10 | Walter | 8,962 |
| 11 | Thomas | 8,850 |
| 12 | Henry | 8,110 |
| 13 | Paul | 7,733 |
| 14 | Harold | 7,563 |
| 15 | Albert | 6,942 |
| 16 | Raymond | 6,821 |
| 17 | Richard | 6,669 |
| 18 | Arthur | 6,641 |
| 19 | Harry | 6,588 |
| 20 | Louis | 5,495 |
| 21 | Ralph | 5,009 |
| 22 | Clarence | 4,909 |
| 23 | Donald | 4,835 |
| 24 | Carl | 4,807 |
| 25 | Willie | 4,709 |
All 200 boys’ names of 1914 (3,759 recorded)
Biggest climbers, girls
Names that gained the most ground on 1913:
Biggest climbers, boys
Names that gained the most ground on 1913:
First recorded in 1914, girls
Names the SSA had never published before 1914:
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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.