Popular Names of 1927

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1927, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025.

Table 1. Female names, 1927
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	70,642	125
2	Dorothy	35,993	421
3	Betty	35,424	1,113
4	Helen	25,316	462
5	Margaret	21,964	112
6	Ruth	19,412	173
7	Doris	16,512	2,909
8	Virginia	15,734	526
9	Shirley	13,314	1,586
10	Barbara	13,161	968
11	Mildred	13,053	1,973
12	Frances	12,988	318
13	Elizabeth	12,523	17
14	Jean	12,512	2,130
15	Evelyn	11,495	8
16	Anna	11,215	107
17	Alice	10,679	65
18	Patricia	10,554	1,336
19	Lois	10,505	1,670
20	Marie	10,317	618

Table 2. Male names, 1927
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Robert	61,674	92
2	John	55,949	23
3	James	53,674	6
4	William	51,476	9
5	Charles	31,941	48
6	Richard	26,768	234
7	George	25,949	126
8	Donald	23,834	690
9	Joseph	23,503	29
10	Edward	19,115	224
11	Thomas	17,027	34
12	Frank	14,377	514
13	Paul	13,604	262
14	Harold	13,226	993
15	Raymond	12,807	395
16	Jack	12,802	15
17	Walter	11,346	252
18	Kenneth	10,848	294
19	Henry	9,871	5
20	Eugene	9,742	943

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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.