Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1909

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1909 Popular Names U.S. - Top 100 Baby Names
				Change from 1908						Change from 1908
Girls		Number of Girls	%	Rank	Number	Boys		Number of Boys	%	Rank	Number
1	Mary	19,259	5.232	0	594	1	John	9,591	5.423	0	249
2	Helen	9,250	2.513	0	811	2	William	7,914	4.475	0	386
3	Margaret	7,359	1.999	0	383	3	James	7,594	4.294	0	582
4	Ruth	6,509	1.768	0	329	4	George	4,688	2.651	0	104
5	Dorothy	6,253	1.699	1	550	5	Robert	4,563	2.580	0	344
6	Anna	5,804	1.577	-1	-56	6	Joseph	4,348	2.458	0	186
7	Elizabeth	5,176	1.406	0	272	7	Charles	4,029	2.278	0	100
8	Mildred	5,054	1.373	0	430	8	Frank	3,244	1.834	0	98
9	Marie	4,301	1.168	1	225	9	Edward	2,935	1.659	0	228
10	Alice	4,170	1.133	-1	-100	10	Thomas	2,468	1.395	0	167
11	Florence	3,789	1.029	0	-94	11	Henry	2,411	1.363	0	128
12	Frances	3,780	1.027	2	187	12	Walter	2,287	1.293	0	95
13	Ethel	3,661	0.995	-1	-125	13	Willie	2,175	1.230	0	211
14	Lillian	3,596	0.977	-1	-38	14	Harry	1,924	1.088	0	-10
15	Gladys	3,538	0.961	0	-42	15	Albert	1,816	1.027	0	174
16	Edna	3,429	0.932	1	64	16	Harold	1,725	0.975	1	183
17	Rose	3,374	0.917	-1	-8	17	Paul	1,676	0.948	1	198
18	Evelyn	3,157	0.858	2	300	18	Arthur	1,665	0.941	-2	64
19	Louise	3,019	0.820	-1	82	19	Clarence	1,518	0.858	0	90
20	Irene	2,961	0.804	3	229	20	Raymond	1,441	0.815	1	60
21	Grace	2,912	0.791	-2	11	21	Richard	1,427	0.807	2	183
22	Annie	2,904	0.789	-1	84	22	Fred	1,355	0.766	-2	-26
23	Catherine	2,897	0.787	-1	147	23	Joe	1,292	0.730	1	83
24	Hazel	2,708	0.736	0	10	24	Louis	1,231	0.696	-2	-86
25	Gertrude	2,622	0.712	0	60	25	Carl	1,215	0.687	4	141
26	Thelma	2,612	0.710	0	86	26	Howard	1,166	0.659	2	88
27	Ruby	2,524	0.686	6	295	27	Jack	1,150	0.650	0	64
28	Martha	2,510	0.682	4	186	28	Roy	1,135	0.642	-2	38
29	Bertha	2,444	0.664	0	60	29	David	1,094	0.619	1	78
30	Virginia	2,420	0.657	5	225	30	Ralph	1,091	0.617	-5	-47
31	Josephine	2,416	0.656	-3	27	31	Earl	1,007	0.569	1	8
32	Clara	2,403	0.653	-1	51	32	Samuel	983	0.556	1	23
33	Edith	2,371	0.644	-6	-39	33	Francis	886	0.501	1	33
34	Emma	2,338	0.635	-4	-19	34	Ernest	885	0.500	-3	-115
35	Bessie	2,276	0.618	-1	75	35	Lawrence	854	0.483	0	39
36	Lucille	2,192	0.596	2	112	36	Charlie	833	0.471	1	93
37	Esther	2,185	0.594	-1	-2	37	Herbert	831	0.470	-1	72
38	Beatrice	2,105	0.572	2	108	38	Andrew	766	0.433	1	44
39	Elsie	2,064	0.561	2	81	39	Alfred	763	0.431	-1	24
40	Pearl	2,048	0.556	-1	-27	40	Anthony	758	0.429	1	68
41	Mabel	2,007	0.545	-4	-89	41	Kenneth	746	0.422	-1	54
42	Agnes	1,974	0.536	3	40	42	Donald	725	0.410	3	61
43	Myrtle	1,950	0.530	1	-2	43	Eugene	724	0.409	0	35
44	Ida	1,943	0.528	-1	-9	44	Sam	700	0.396	2	56
45	Julia	1,931	0.525	5	182	45	Elmer	687	0.388	-3	-2
46	Viola	1,926	0.523	-4	-38	46	Leonard	665	0.376	2	51
47	Eva	1,896	0.515	-1	-34	47	Michael	635	0.359	-3	-53
48	Pauline	1,896	0.515	3	194	48	Herman	618	0.349	2	56
49	Sarah	1,845	0.501	-1	31	49	Leo	609	0.344	0	25
50	Minnie	1,779	0.483	-3	-38	50	Stanley	607	0.343	2	60

United States name popularity data is provided by the Social Security Administration and is based on Social Security card applications.

Data for a given year is not made available until well into the next year.

Data reflects what was recorded and has not been edited for errors, so for example the gender associated with a name may be incorrect.

The more babies that are given a particular name, the higher the popularity ranking. If multiple names have the same usage, the tie is broken by assigning popularity rank in alphabetical order. Therefore in the case of names with fewer occurrences, names with the same number of occurrences may have vastly different rankings because they will be interranked alphabetically.

To safeguard privacy, the SSA does not include names with less than 5 occurrences.

Please note, we update the data each May when the SSA releases new figures. All data changes at that time, including previous years, which will change minutely based on new information.