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Most popular baby names of 1922 in England and Wales

In 1922, 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.

← 19211923 →

Girls

  1. 1Mary4,648
  2. 2Margaret3,370
  3. 3Joan2,764
  4. 4Dorothy2,661
  5. 5Irene1,734
  6. 6Annie1,692
  7. 7Doris1,655
  8. 8Kathleen1,591
  9. 9Elsie1,579
  10. 10Edith1,444
  11. 11Marjorie1,420
  12. 12Alice1,411
  13. 13Elizabeth1,331
  14. 14Hilda1,326
  15. 15Florence1,279
  16. 16Edna1,264
  17. 17Joyce1,238
  18. 18Gladys1,231
  19. 19Winifred1,168
  20. 20Lilian1,127
  21. 21Leslie1,107
  22. 22Ethel991
  23. 23Vera948
  24. 24Eileen810
  25. 25Ellen792
  26. 26May715
  27. 27Muriel692
  28. 28Lily688
  29. 29Olive684
  30. 30Ivy679
  31. 31Phyllis675
  32. 32Betty666
  33. 33Catherine644
  34. 34Doreen583
  35. 35Evelyn574
  36. 36Barbara568
  37. 37Nellie548
  38. 38Frances547
  39. 39Sarah538
  40. 40Agnes537
  41. 41Violet534
  42. 42Audrey485
  43. 43Freda466
  44. 44Ada442
  45. 45Beatrice439
  46. 46Jessie422
  47. 47Constance415
  48. 48Nora394
  49. 49Rose393
  50. 50Mabel387
  51. 51Marian384
  52. 52Emily381
  53. 53Sydney378
  54. 54Marion371
  55. 55Nancy351
  56. 56Eva334
  57. 57Norah318
  58. 58Ruth309
  59. 59Gertrude303
  60. 60Jane298
  61. 61Beryl294
  62. 62Iris286
  63. 63Gwendoline274
  64. 64Veronica254
  65. 65Grace246
  66. 66Patricia246
  67. 67Mildred243
  68. 68Clara242
  69. 69Amy239
  70. 70Bessie235
  71. 71Brenda232
  72. 72Lucy221
  73. 73Ida218
  74. 74Ann205
  75. 75Bertha205
  76. 76Marie202
  77. 77Dora200
  78. 78Sylvia197
  79. 79Enid196
  80. 80Josephine193
  81. 81Hannah188
  82. 82Margery186
  83. 83Martha185
  84. 84Eunice180
  85. 85Eleanor176
  86. 86Helen171
  87. 87Peggy170
  88. 88Sheila167
  89. 89Minnie166
  90. 90Esther165
  91. 91Mona157
  92. 92Millicent153
  93. 93Alma150
  94. 94Laura144
  95. 95Maud137
  96. 96Teresa136
  97. 97Louisa130
  98. 98Emma129
  99. 99Eveline122
  100. 100Ruby118

Boys

  1. 1John7,360
  2. 2William5,264
  3. 3James3,767
  4. 4Thomas3,471
  5. 5George3,153
  6. 6Joseph2,164
  7. 7Arthur2,043
  8. 8Robert1,993
  9. 9Kenneth1,833
  10. 10Frank1,701
  11. 11Ronald1,695
  12. 12Albert1,568
  13. 13Harold1,561
  14. 14Harry1,439
  15. 15Eric1,432
  16. 16Edward1,367
  17. 17Frederick1,361
  18. 18Charles1,341
  19. 19Norman1,157
  20. 20Stanley1,081
  21. 21Jack996
  22. 22Ernest984
  23. 23Richard903
  24. 24Alfred885
  25. 25Walter872
  26. 26Francis843
  27. 27Henry843
  28. 28Cyril750
  29. 29Peter749
  30. 30Leonard737
  31. 31Herbert692
  32. 32David652
  33. 33Jean644
  34. 34Reginald617
  35. 35Fred591
  36. 36Alan588
  37. 37Wilfred578
  38. 38Donald549
  39. 39Raymond525
  40. 40Samuel522
  41. 41Bernard519
  42. 42Dennis516
  43. 43Clifford471
  44. 44Douglas419
  45. 45Geoffrey405
  46. 46Roy403
  47. 47Sidney379
  48. 48Gordon377
  49. 49Philip295
  50. 50Edwin267
  51. 51Michael248
  52. 52Lawrence232
  53. 53Arnold230
  54. 54Patrick229
  55. 55Vincent216
  56. 56Denis215
  57. 57Hugh209
  58. 58Victor205
  59. 59Alexander204
  60. 60Maurice186
  61. 61Percy183
  62. 62Gerald174
  63. 63Tom166
  64. 64Horace164
  65. 65Cecil162
  66. 66Benjamin159
  67. 67Christopher158
  68. 68Terence157
  69. 69Allan155
  70. 70Anthony153
  71. 71Daniel148
  72. 72Edgar143
  73. 73Derek135
  74. 74Ralph132
  75. 75Colin130
  76. 76Stephen129
  77. 77Roland120
  78. 78Gerard116
  79. 79Clarence109
  80. 80Gilbert107
  81. 81Edmund105
  82. 82Brian101
  83. 83Owen100
  84. 84Desmond88
  85. 85Trevor87
  86. 86Basil85
  87. 87Louis84
  88. 88Neville79
  89. 89Evan78
  90. 90Matthew78
  91. 91Andrew72
  92. 92Noel71
  93. 93Hubert70
  94. 94Lewis69
  95. 95Alec66
  96. 96Paul66
  97. 97Wilfrid64
  98. 98Ivor63
  99. 99Wallace63
  100. 100Keith61

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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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