These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In The 1920s

Caroline Bologna
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The Social Security Administration tracks the most popular names of each decade going back to 1880. (Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock via Getty Images)
The Social Security Administration tracks the most popular names of each decade going back to 1880. (Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock via Getty Images)

Thanks to the Social Security Administration, Americans can see which baby names were the most popular every year going back to 1880. The agency also tracks the hottest names from each decade.

Looking back to the 1920s, it’s clear the top names for little girls have changed over time, as the list contains choices like Betty, Mildred, Jean, Shirley and Barbara. Still some, like Elizabeth and Anna, have a little more staying power. And others, like Ruby and Alice, have gotten more popular again in recent years.

On the list of boys’ names, there are many more still-popular picks, such as James, William, Robert, Charles, John and Joseph. But of course, other names like Harold, Eugene and Howard have fallen down in the ranks.

Keep scrolling to see the 50 most popular names for boys and girls born in the U.S. from 1920 to 1929.

Girls

  1. Mary

  2. Dorothy

  3. Helen

  4. Betty

  5. Margaret

  6. Ruth

  7. Virginia

  8. Doris

  9. Mildred

  10. Frances

  11. Elizabeth

  12. Evelyn

  13. Anna

  14. Marie

  15. Alice

  16. Jean

  17. Shirley

  18. Barbara

  19. Irene

  20. Marjorie

  21. Florence

  22. Lois

  23. Martha

  24. Rose

  25. Lillian

  26. Louise

  27. Catherine

  28. Ruby

  29. Eleanor

  30. Patricia

  31. Gladys

  32. Annie

  33. Josephine

  34. Thelma

  35. Edna

  36. Norma

  37. Pauline

  38. Lucille

  39. Edith

  40. Gloria

  41. Ethel

  42. Phyllis

  43. Grace

  44. Hazel

  45. June

  46. Bernice

  47. Marion

  48. Dolores

  49. Rita

  50. Lorraine

Boys

  1. Robert

  2. John

  3. James

  4. William

  5. Charles

  6. George

  7. Joseph

  8. Richard

  9. Edward

  10. Donald

  11. Thomas

  12. Frank

  13. Harold

  14. Paul

  15. Raymond

  16. Walter

  17. Jack

  18. Henry

  19. Kenneth

  20. Arthur

  21. Albert

  22. David

  23. Harry

  24. Eugene

  25. Ralph

  26. Howard

  27. Carl

  28. Willie

  29. Louis

  30. Clarence

  31. Earl

  32. Roy

  33. Fred

  34. Joe

  35. Francis

  36. Lawrence

  37. Herbert

  38. Leonard

  39. Ernest

  40. Alfred

  41. Anthony

  42. Stanley

  43. Norman

  44. Gerald

  45. Daniel

  46. Samuel

  47. Bernard

  48. Billy

  49. Melvin

  50. Marvin

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