Popular Names of 1923

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1923, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025. Lavern peaked among human males this year, at 348th.

Table 1. Female names, 1923
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	71,634	125
2	Dorothy	39,043	421
3	Helen	31,486	462
4	Margaret	26,134	112
5	Betty	25,989	1,113
6	Ruth	23,637	173
7	Virginia	18,325	526
8	Mildred	15,989	1,973
9	Elizabeth	15,459	17
10	Frances	14,881	318
11	Doris	14,610	2,909
12	Evelyn	13,173	8
13	Anna	12,865	107
14	Marie	11,513	618
15	Alice	11,331	65
16	Marjorie	10,220	1,019
17	Irene	10,054	651
18	Florence	9,746	391
19	Jean	9,511	2,130
20	Lillian	9,328	57

Table 2. Male names, 1923
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	John	57,467	23
2	Robert	56,111	92
3	William	52,136	9
4	James	50,462	6
5	Charles	28,966	48
6	George	27,025	126
7	Joseph	25,561	29
8	Edward	20,597	224
9	Richard	18,887	234
10	Donald	16,433	690
11	Frank	15,903	514
12	Thomas	15,886	34
13	Harold	13,874	993
14	Paul	13,362	262
15	Raymond	12,460	395
16	Walter	12,433	252
17	Jack	11,190	15
18	Henry	11,067	5
19	Arthur	9,924	87
20	Albert	9,825	614

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As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.