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Most popular baby names of 1906 in England and Wales

In 1906, 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.

← 19051907 →

Girls

  1. 1Mary7,002
  2. 2Annie4,688
  3. 3Alice3,863
  4. 4Elizabeth3,800
  5. 5Edith3,585
  6. 6Margaret3,415
  7. 7Florence3,054
  8. 8Doris3,014
  9. 9Elsie2,770
  10. 10Hilda2,375
  11. 11Ethel2,348
  12. 12Sarah2,302
  13. 13Gladys2,219
  14. 14Ellen2,037
  15. 15Lily1,863
  16. 16Dorothy1,835
  17. 17Lilian1,623
  18. 18Nellie1,531
  19. 19Ada1,430
  20. 20Winifred1,425
  21. 21May1,302
  22. 22Emily1,300
  23. 23Jane1,196
  24. 24Catherine1,190
  25. 25Edna1,151
  26. 26Phyllis1,085
  27. 27Ivy1,043
  28. 28Agnes1,039
  29. 29Kathleen955
  30. 30Beatrice948
  31. 31Frances920
  32. 32Mabel898
  33. 33Violet889
  34. 34Jessie864
  35. 35Gertrude818
  36. 36Eva768
  37. 37Martha729
  38. 38Sydney724
  39. 39Hannah712
  40. 40Amy706
  41. 41Clara703
  42. 42Ann694
  43. 43Evelyn689
  44. 44Olive687
  45. 45Leslie680
  46. 46Marjorie663
  47. 47Lucy643
  48. 48Bertha641
  49. 49Emma625
  50. 50Minnie622
  51. 51Rose622
  52. 52Irene555
  53. 53Dora486
  54. 54Marion484
  55. 55Louisa481
  56. 56Ida473
  57. 57Nora473
  58. 58Maggie470
  59. 59Muriel464
  60. 60Constance463
  61. 61Norah459
  62. 62Harriet445
  63. 63Esther439
  64. 64Bessie433
  65. 65Ena418
  66. 66Ruth412
  67. 67Maud379
  68. 68Eveline377
  69. 69Eliza375
  70. 70Eleanor373
  71. 71Grace368
  72. 72Vera365
  73. 73Fanny351
  74. 74Isabella308
  75. 75Laura293
  76. 76Florrie291
  77. 77Eileen281
  78. 78Daisy253
  79. 79Kate251
  80. 80Mildred248
  81. 81Helen245
  82. 82Charlotte243
  83. 83Gwendoline242
  84. 84Maria237
  85. 85Amelia230
  86. 86Lizzie226
  87. 87Rachel198
  88. 88Nancy195
  89. 89Miriam193
  90. 90Margery188
  91. 91Caroline180
  92. 92Lena174
  93. 93Millicent170
  94. 94Freda169
  95. 95Josephine168
  96. 96Phoebe168
  97. 97Enid162
  98. 98Janet156
  99. 99Marian148
  100. 100Mona144

Boys

  1. 1John11,323
  2. 2William9,618
  3. 3James6,174
  4. 4Thomas6,146
  5. 5George5,358
  6. 6Joseph3,733
  7. 7Arthur3,417
  8. 8Harold3,077
  9. 9Albert2,866
  10. 10Harry2,803
  11. 11Robert2,801
  12. 12Charles2,752
  13. 13Frank2,484
  14. 14Edward2,332
  15. 15Frederick2,276
  16. 16Ernest2,035
  17. 17Henry1,894
  18. 18Alfred1,811
  19. 19Walter1,767
  20. 20Herbert1,711
  21. 21Richard1,659
  22. 22Fred1,499
  23. 23Samuel1,379
  24. 24Stanley1,259
  25. 25Norman1,124
  26. 26Leonard1,037
  27. 27Francis989
  28. 28Wilfred951
  29. 29David927
  30. 30Reginald798
  31. 31Eric782
  32. 32Cyril777
  33. 33Jack604
  34. 34Sidney595
  35. 35Percy588
  36. 36Clifford552
  37. 37Edwin460
  38. 38Tom439
  39. 39Horace433
  40. 40Peter432
  41. 41Benjamin393
  42. 42Hugh357
  43. 43Alexander339
  44. 44Bernard337
  45. 45Lawrence289
  46. 46Cecil274
  47. 47Patrick271
  48. 48Ronald271
  49. 49Philip270
  50. 50Daniel265
  51. 51Edgar217
  52. 52Kenneth213
  53. 53Ralph206
  54. 54Michael201
  55. 55Donald200
  56. 56Gilbert199
  57. 57Willie192
  58. 58Arnold191
  59. 59Christopher191
  60. 60Owen188
  61. 61Clarence184
  62. 62Vincent175
  63. 63Maurice174
  64. 64Andrew173
  65. 65Edmund172
  66. 66Stephen168
  67. 67Roland160
  68. 68Geoffrey159
  69. 69Matthew154
  70. 70Isaac144
  71. 71Wilfrid137
  72. 72Allan135
  73. 73Douglas135
  74. 74Alan133
  75. 75Lewis129
  76. 76Victor129
  77. 77Evan124
  78. 78Abraham122
  79. 79Louis121
  80. 80Rowland121
  81. 81Gordon115
  82. 82Louie115
  83. 83Martin113
  84. 84Raymond113
  85. 85Sam112
  86. 86Gerald105
  87. 87Bertram104
  88. 88Hubert100
  89. 89Dennis91
  90. 90Ellis91
  91. 91Joe88
  92. 92Anthony86
  93. 93Archibald86
  94. 94Mark85
  95. 95Alec83
  96. 96Morris82
  97. 97Denis81
  98. 98Gwilym80
  99. 99Jesse75
  100. 100Wallace74

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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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