Popular Names of 1924

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1924, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025.

Table 1. Female names, 1924
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	73,534	125
2	Dorothy	39,996	421
3	Helen	31,194	462
4	Betty	30,600	1,113
5	Margaret	26,547	112
6	Ruth	23,601	173
7	Virginia	18,620	526
8	Mildred	15,853	1,973
9	Doris	15,786	2,909
10	Frances	15,183	318
11	Elizabeth	14,950	17
12	Evelyn	13,358	8
13	Anna	13,076	107
14	Marie	11,575	618
15	Alice	11,537	65
16	Jean	10,721	2,130
17	Marjorie	10,069	1,019
18	Irene	9,928	651
19	Shirley	9,489	1,586
20	Florence	9,472	391

Table 2. Male names, 1924
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Robert	60,802	92
2	John	59,052	23
3	William	53,506	9
4	James	52,942	6
5	Charles	30,460	48
6	George	27,373	126
7	Joseph	25,421	29
8	Richard	21,244	234
9	Edward	21,126	224
10	Donald	17,929	690
11	Thomas	16,555	34
12	Frank	16,044	514
13	Harold	14,149	993
14	Paul	13,338	262
15	Raymond	12,873	395
16	Walter	12,696	252
17	Jack	11,921	15
18	Henry	11,195	5
19	Kenneth	10,355	294
20	Arthur	10,172	87

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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.