Baby names of 1925

Mary and Robert topped the lists in 1925, out of 2,333,303 births recorded across 9,511 different names. That is 2.0% fewer than the 1924 files hold. About 32,000 of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Mary	70,586
2	Dorothy	38,570
3	Betty	32,812
4	Helen	29,173
5	Margaret	24,463
6	Ruth	22,247
7	Virginia	17,490
8	Doris	16,075
9	Mildred	14,453
10	Elizabeth	13,936
11	Frances	13,824
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	8,351

All 200 girls’ names of 1925 (5,771 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Robert	60,895
2	John	57,195
3	William	53,310
4	James	52,680
5	Charles	29,580
6	George	26,560
7	Joseph	24,613
8	Richard	23,269
9	Edward	20,090
10	Donald	19,193
11	Thomas	16,688
12	Frank	15,329
13	Paul	14,175
14	Harold	13,597
15	Raymond	12,441
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	8,610
24	Eugene	8,517
25	Ralph	8,467

All 200 boys’ names of 1925 (4,867 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1924:

Nanette #1,475 → #870 +605
Paulina #1,258 → #841 +417
Estela #1,258 → #905 +353
Delois #1,123 → #800 +323
Veola #1,301 → #988 +313
Rosia #1,031 → #727 +304
Natalia #1,206 → #905 +301
Irine #1,258 → #960 +298

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1924:

Okey #1,532 → #984 +548
Eddy #1,492 → #998 +494
Terrence #1,223 → #801 +422
Hughie #1,355 → #984 +371
Rexford #1,287 → #924 +363
Dexter #984 → #669 +315
Monte #960 → #649 +311
Emmit #1,045 → #746 +299

First recorded in 1925, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1925:

First recorded in 1925, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1925:

Shelvy 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.