Top NZ Baby Names of the 1910s

Registrations added up across 1910-1919. Mary and John were the decade's most registered names. Click any name to see its full trend.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Mary5,198
  2. 2Margaret4,347
  3. 3Dorothy3,014
  4. 4Jean2,504
  5. 5Kathleen2,376
  6. 6Phyllis2,246
  7. 7Eileen2,067
  8. 8Joyce1,923
  9. 9Edna1,917
  10. 10Joan1,875
  11. 11Mavis1,855
  12. 12Doris1,814
  13. 13Gladys1,737
  14. 14Annie1,711
  15. 15Elizabeth1,709
  16. 16Alice1,642
  17. 17Florence1,601
  18. 18Elsie1,455
  19. 19Marjorie1,448
  20. 20Olive1,387
  21. 21Thelma1,387
  22. 22Jessie1,337
  23. 23Edith1,300
  24. 24Ethel1,275
  25. 25Winifred1,262
  26. 26Ellen1,206
  27. 27Nancy1,161
  28. 28Hazel1,108
  29. 29Agnes1,106
  30. 30Violet1,101
  31. 31Frances1,068
  32. 32Irene1,062
  33. 33Catherine1,051
  34. 34Ivy1,047
  35. 35Muriel993
  36. 36Evelyn976
  37. 37Helen954
  38. 38Vera943
  39. 39Betty935
  40. 40Iris919
  41. 41Rita885
  42. 42Grace881
  43. 43Myrtle864
  44. 44Mabel836
  45. 45Ruby744
  46. 46Hilda730
  47. 47Patricia727
  48. 48Doreen717
  49. 49Ruth702
  50. 50Gwendoline687

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John9,250
  2. 2William8,197
  3. 3James5,205
  4. 4George4,391
  5. 5Robert4,058
  6. 6Thomas3,415
  7. 7Charles2,984
  8. 8Arthur2,934
  9. 9Albert2,171
  10. 10Frederick2,115
  11. 11Leslie2,084
  12. 12Ronald2,078
  13. 13Eric1,953
  14. 14Edward1,952
  15. 15Henry1,926
  16. 16Francis1,784
  17. 17Gordon1,704
  18. 18Harold1,692
  19. 19David1,658
  20. 20Norman1,641
  21. 21Walter1,639
  22. 22Alfred1,608
  23. 23Douglas1,608
  24. 24Raymond1,597
  25. 25Ernest1,579
  26. 26Kenneth1,548
  27. 27Jack1,533
  28. 28Richard1,393
  29. 29Stanley1,389
  30. 30Leonard1,377
  31. 31Alexander1,352
  32. 32Herbert1,317
  33. 33Frank1,268
  34. 34Allan1,226
  35. 35Donald1,218
  36. 36Joseph1,181
  37. 37Ian1,077
  38. 38Colin1,075
  39. 39Cyril1,051
  40. 40Reginald979
  41. 41Maurice977
  42. 42Alan949
  43. 43Roy894
  44. 44Patrick851
  45. 45Ivan812
  46. 46Keith772
  47. 47Noel765
  48. 48Harry764
  49. 49Cecil760
  50. 50Clifford665
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About this data: figures come from Department of Internal Affairs birth registrations for 1954-2025. The DIA only publishes a name for a given year when at least 10 babies were registered with it, so rarer names - and rarer spellings - are missing entirely, and a name can drop out of the record in quieter years. Spelling variants are counted separately, and counts reflect first names as registered.