Most Popular Baby Names of the 1920's
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This page presents the top 1000 given names for births in the 1920's. The
data comes from a 5% sampling of Social Security card applications with dates of
birth from January 1920 through December 1929.
All names which occurred at least five times in the sample are included in
the table below. The total number of males in the sample is 663,408 and the
total number of females is 666,147. Criteria to be included in the sample is
simply that a Social Security card application was filed, that the year of birth
was between 1920 and 1929, and that the birth was on US soil. As always each
unique spelling is considered a unique name. It may be appropriate for purposes
of ranking popularity of names to combine similar spellings of the same name.
This kind of grouping, however, is subjective and time consuming, and is beyond
the scope of this document. The 2000 edition of the World Almanac lists the top
10 names of each decade based on this data after combining different spellings
of the same name.
No effort has been made to edit the data and as a result some coding errors
are obvious. For example initials like "A" are included in the lists. Another
common problem, especially for the earlier decades is females coded as being
male. For example Mary is the ranked 431 among male names. Finally entries like
"Unknown" and "Baby" are not removed from the lists.