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Most popular baby names of 1909 in England and Wales

In 1909, 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.

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Girls

  1. 1Mary6,792
  2. 2Annie4,325
  3. 3Alice3,496
  4. 4Elizabeth3,396
  5. 5Edith3,367
  6. 6Margaret3,352
  7. 7Florence2,698
  8. 8Elsie2,594
  9. 9Doris2,520
  10. 10Hilda2,356
  11. 11Ethel2,168
  12. 12Dorothy2,067
  13. 13Gladys2,025
  14. 14Sarah1,914
  15. 15Ellen1,863
  16. 16Lily1,773
  17. 17Lilian1,627
  18. 18Winifred1,624
  19. 19Nellie1,484
  20. 20Phyllis1,423
  21. 21May1,316
  22. 22Edna1,281
  23. 23Ada1,236
  24. 24Kathleen1,193
  25. 25Emily1,184
  26. 26Catherine1,092
  27. 27Agnes1,036
  28. 28Jane1,018
  29. 29Ivy1,008
  30. 30Violet933
  31. 31Leslie904
  32. 32Evelyn903
  33. 33Marjorie878
  34. 34Beatrice861
  35. 35Frances842
  36. 36Jessie819
  37. 37Mabel784
  38. 38Sydney762
  39. 39Gertrude744
  40. 40Olive722
  41. 41Eva713
  42. 42Irene701
  43. 43Hannah671
  44. 44Martha666
  45. 45Clara646
  46. 46Amy623
  47. 47Bertha622
  48. 48Ann618
  49. 49Rose565
  50. 50Minnie553
  51. 51Emma541
  52. 52Nora538
  53. 53Vera536
  54. 54Lucy532
  55. 55Norah496
  56. 56Marion461
  57. 57Ida449
  58. 58Muriel440
  59. 59Dora416
  60. 60Eileen415
  61. 61Constance410
  62. 62Ruth402
  63. 63Harriet388
  64. 64Maud386
  65. 65Bessie385
  66. 66Eleanor370
  67. 67Esther367
  68. 68Maggie367
  69. 69Louisa362
  70. 70Grace350
  71. 71Eliza342
  72. 72Eveline340
  73. 73Gwendoline293
  74. 74Marian283
  75. 75Laura278
  76. 76Isabella276
  77. 77Fanny271
  78. 78Nancy266
  79. 79Charlotte265
  80. 80Helen236
  81. 81Florrie221
  82. 82Daisy215
  83. 83Freda213
  84. 84Lizzie201
  85. 85Millicent199
  86. 86Kate197
  87. 87Mildred194
  88. 88Amelia193
  89. 89Miriam189
  90. 90Maria182
  91. 91Rachel177
  92. 92Mona176
  93. 93Lena175
  94. 94Janet173
  95. 95Josephine161
  96. 96Barbara160
  97. 97Marie160
  98. 98Jennie153
  99. 99Margery152
  100. 100Enid146

Boys

  1. 1John10,763
  2. 2William8,874
  3. 3Thomas5,882
  4. 4James5,799
  5. 5George5,112
  6. 6Joseph3,573
  7. 7Arthur3,296
  8. 8Harry2,847
  9. 9Robert2,728
  10. 10Harold2,705
  11. 11Albert2,681
  12. 12Charles2,514
  13. 13Frank2,453
  14. 14Frederick2,295
  15. 15Edward2,093
  16. 16Ernest1,977
  17. 17Alfred1,796
  18. 18Henry1,793
  19. 19Richard1,668
  20. 20Walter1,629
  21. 21Herbert1,622
  22. 22Fred1,321
  23. 23Norman1,266
  24. 24Stanley1,250
  25. 25Samuel1,212
  26. 26Leonard1,126
  27. 27Wilfred954
  28. 28Eric938
  29. 29Francis918
  30. 30Jack898
  31. 31David833
  32. 32Cyril788
  33. 33Reginald757
  34. 34Clifford651
  35. 35Sidney563
  36. 36Horace510
  37. 37Percy507
  38. 38Ronald467
  39. 39Tom437
  40. 40Edwin430
  41. 41Peter425
  42. 42Bernard392
  43. 43Kenneth368
  44. 44Benjamin361
  45. 45Hugh348
  46. 46Alexander290
  47. 47Lawrence282
  48. 48Cecil281
  49. 49Philip258
  50. 50Patrick255
  51. 51Arnold238
  52. 52Edgar223
  53. 53Daniel222
  54. 54Michael216
  55. 55Ralph207
  56. 56Geoffrey204
  57. 57Alan203
  58. 58Christopher202
  59. 59Donald202
  60. 60Gilbert202
  61. 61Victor191
  62. 62Stephen181
  63. 63Clarence168
  64. 64Edmund168
  65. 65Vincent168
  66. 66Owen166
  67. 67Andrew162
  68. 68Dennis159
  69. 69Gerard156
  70. 70Maurice156
  71. 71Isaac149
  72. 72Raymond145
  73. 73Hubert139
  74. 74Allan138
  75. 75Matthew134
  76. 76Gerald130
  77. 77Gordon129
  78. 78Willie129
  79. 79Douglas122
  80. 80Louis119
  81. 81Evan118
  82. 82Roland113
  83. 83Wilfrid113
  84. 84Martin110
  85. 85Rowland106
  86. 86Abraham104
  87. 87Lewis104
  88. 88Bertram102
  89. 89Colin101
  90. 90Denis92
  91. 91Louie91
  92. 92Anthony90
  93. 93Sam84
  94. 94Alec78
  95. 95Oswald77
  96. 96Noel74
  97. 97Roy74
  98. 98Jesse71
  99. 99Joe71
  100. 100Austin69

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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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