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Most popular baby names of 1905 in England and Wales

In 1905, the most popular names in England and Wales were Mary for girls and John for boys. Here are the top 100, with how many babies got each name. The counts for England and Wales before 1996 come from a sample of local birth records, so they are much smaller than the real number of babies. The order is what matters.

← 19041906 →

Girls

  1. 1Mary7,160
  2. 2Annie4,829
  3. 3Alice3,938
  4. 4Elizabeth3,931
  5. 5Edith3,573
  6. 6Margaret3,411
  7. 7Doris3,218
  8. 8Florence3,183
  9. 9Elsie2,917
  10. 10Ethel2,456
  11. 11Gladys2,289
  12. 12Hilda2,284
  13. 13Sarah2,278
  14. 14Ellen2,209
  15. 15Dorothy1,924
  16. 16Lily1,875
  17. 17Lilian1,713
  18. 18Nellie1,517
  19. 19Ada1,496
  20. 20May1,470
  21. 21Winifred1,461
  22. 22Emily1,325
  23. 23Catherine1,288
  24. 24Jane1,170
  25. 25Agnes1,095
  26. 26Ivy1,026
  27. 27Beatrice1,013
  28. 28Edna943
  29. 29Kathleen925
  30. 30Frances896
  31. 31Phyllis873
  32. 32Gertrude851
  33. 33Jessie839
  34. 34Mabel830
  35. 35Martha783
  36. 36Violet777
  37. 37Hannah774
  38. 38Ann754
  39. 39Amy753
  40. 40Evelyn748
  41. 41Sydney748
  42. 42Clara738
  43. 43Emma720
  44. 44Olive717
  45. 45Bertha693
  46. 46Minnie681
  47. 47Eva677
  48. 48Lucy638
  49. 49Rose618
  50. 50Leslie617
  51. 51Marjorie608
  52. 52Marion495
  53. 53Irene491
  54. 54Maggie486
  55. 55Louisa476
  56. 56Dora463
  57. 57Maud451
  58. 58Norah451
  59. 59Harriet450
  60. 60Esther447
  61. 61Nora441
  62. 62Ida438
  63. 63Eleanor433
  64. 64Constance425
  65. 65Grace419
  66. 66Eliza418
  67. 67Muriel414
  68. 68Bessie390
  69. 69Ruth374
  70. 70Eveline364
  71. 71Vera354
  72. 72Fanny352
  73. 73Isabella335
  74. 74Florrie333
  75. 75Laura293
  76. 76Gwendoline283
  77. 77Kate267
  78. 78Charlotte265
  79. 79Lizzie251
  80. 80Mildred251
  81. 81Daisy250
  82. 82Eileen248
  83. 83Maria246
  84. 84Helen243
  85. 85Amelia232
  86. 86Caroline199
  87. 87Freda194
  88. 88Rachel191
  89. 89Leah190
  90. 90Millicent185
  91. 91Miriam185
  92. 92Lena184
  93. 93Janet182
  94. 94Susannah174
  95. 95Mona171
  96. 96Nancy170
  97. 97Josephine166
  98. 98Rhoda154
  99. 99Lillian153
  100. 100Barbara150

Boys

  1. 1John11,445
  2. 2William9,950
  3. 3Thomas6,332
  4. 4James6,248
  5. 5George5,561
  6. 6Joseph3,873
  7. 7Arthur3,502
  8. 8Albert2,901
  9. 9Robert2,883
  10. 10Harry2,857
  11. 11Harold2,855
  12. 12Charles2,737
  13. 13Frank2,431
  14. 14Edward2,409
  15. 15Frederick2,264
  16. 16Ernest2,173
  17. 17Henry1,896
  18. 18Alfred1,857
  19. 19Walter1,803
  20. 20Richard1,756
  21. 21Herbert1,724
  22. 22Fred1,465
  23. 23Samuel1,320
  24. 24Stanley1,202
  25. 25Norman1,113
  26. 26Leonard1,085
  27. 27Wilfred1,060
  28. 28Francis981
  29. 29David926
  30. 30Reginald794
  31. 31Eric713
  32. 32Cyril702
  33. 33Jack611
  34. 34Percy607
  35. 35Sidney585
  36. 36Clifford559
  37. 37Edwin481
  38. 38Tom481
  39. 39Horace478
  40. 40Peter429
  41. 41Hugh402
  42. 42Benjamin369
  43. 43Alexander352
  44. 44Bernard312
  45. 45Cecil290
  46. 46Daniel282
  47. 47Patrick273
  48. 48Ronald273
  49. 49Lawrence266
  50. 50Philip251
  51. 51Edgar246
  52. 52Michael218
  53. 53Ralph216
  54. 54Christopher214
  55. 55Edmund204
  56. 56Stephen204
  57. 57Gilbert195
  58. 58Owen192
  59. 59Willie192
  60. 60Arnold191
  61. 61Kenneth190
  62. 62Clarence178
  63. 63Isaac177
  64. 64Andrew172
  65. 65Donald169
  66. 66Vincent167
  67. 67Geoffrey157
  68. 68Maurice155
  69. 69Evan148
  70. 70Matthew146
  71. 71Alan144
  72. 72Victor141
  73. 73Wilfrid133
  74. 74Douglas131
  75. 75Lewis131
  76. 76Rowland131
  77. 77Roland130
  78. 78Louis129
  79. 79Allan120
  80. 80Sam117
  81. 81Hubert116
  82. 82Louie111
  83. 83Martin111
  84. 84Abraham110
  85. 85Gordon103
  86. 86Raymond102
  87. 87Gerald101
  88. 88Denis97
  89. 89Jesse96
  90. 90Joe96
  91. 91Archibald91
  92. 92Dennis91
  93. 93Morris90
  94. 94Mark88
  95. 95Ellis84
  96. 96Bertram82
  97. 97Anthony79
  98. 98Reuben77
  99. 99Oswald76
  100. 100Percival75

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Where the counts come from: the US from Social Security card records from 1880 (names given to at least 5 babies in a year; years before about 1937 count fewer people, because the cards started then), and before 1880 from Douglas Galbi's tables of a census sample. England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics from 1996, and before that from Stephen Bush's study of local birth records, a sample of about 120,000 births a year (CC BY 4.0). Scotland from National Records of Scotland. Northern Ireland from NISRA. France from INSEE, first names and last names. Italy from ISTAT (CC BY 4.0), the top 50 names a year. Berlin from the city's open data (CC BY 3.0 DE), counting only the first of a child's names. UK figures are Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence. US last names from the 2020 census, and before 1850 from the 1790 census. Irish last names from Robert Matheson's report on the births of 1890. Italian last names from the City of Florence (CC BY 4.0). Norwegian last names from Statistics Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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