Popular Names of 1930

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1930, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025. Dolores peaked among human females this year, at 13th.

Table 1. Female names, 1930
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	64,153	125
2	Betty	38,240	1,113
3	Dorothy	30,411	421
4	Helen	19,913	462
5	Margaret	18,350	112
6	Barbara	18,279	968
7	Patricia	15,751	1,336
8	Joan	15,478	1,087
9	Doris	15,464	2,909
10	Ruth	14,942	173
11	Shirley	14,775	1,586
12	Virginia	13,197	526
13	Dolores	12,842	2,567
14	Jean	11,986	2,130
15	Elizabeth	10,995	17
16	Frances	10,644	318
17	Lois	10,114	1,670
18	Joyce	9,658	1,074
19	Evelyn	9,536	8
20	Alice	9,516	65

Table 2. Male names, 1930
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Robert	62,153	92
2	James	53,957	6
3	John	52,447	23
4	William	47,271	9
5	Richard	32,187	234
6	Charles	31,867	48
7	Donald	29,052	690
8	George	22,788	126
9	Joseph	20,981	29
10	Edward	17,352	224
11	Thomas	17,008	34
12	Paul	12,955	262
13	Frank	12,535	514
14	Jack	12,430	15
15	David	12,275	35
16	Raymond	11,714	395
17	Kenneth	11,705	294
18	Harold	11,660	993
19	Walter	9,731	252
20	Billy	9,285	1,068

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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.