Popular Names of 1925

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1925, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025.

Table 1. Female names, 1925
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	70,586	125
2	Dorothy	38,570	421
3	Betty	32,812	1,113
4	Helen	29,173	462
5	Margaret	24,463	112
6	Ruth	22,247	173
7	Virginia	17,490	526
8	Doris	16,075	2,909
9	Mildred	14,453	1,973
10	Elizabeth	13,936	17
11	Frances	13,824	318
12	Evelyn	12,505	8
13	Anna	12,250	107
14	Jean	11,598	2,130
15	Alice	11,576	65
16	Marie	10,930	618
17	Shirley	10,513	1,586
18	Lois	9,573	1,670
19	Irene	9,440	651
20	Gloria	9,381	655

Table 2. Male names, 1925
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Robert	60,895	92
2	John	57,195	23
3	William	53,310	9
4	James	52,680	6
5	Charles	29,580	48
6	George	26,560	126
7	Joseph	24,613	29
8	Richard	23,269	234
9	Edward	20,090	224
10	Donald	19,193	690
11	Thomas	16,688	34
12	Frank	15,329	514
13	Paul	14,175	262
14	Harold	13,597	993
15	Raymond	12,441	395
16	Walter	12,130	252
17	Jack	12,011	15
18	Henry	10,618	5
19	Kenneth	10,146	294
20	Arthur	9,986	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.