Top NZ Baby Names of the 1920s

Registrations added up across 1920-1929. Margaret and John were the decade's most registered names. Click any name to see its full trend.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret5,392
  2. 2Mary4,145
  3. 3Joan3,727
  4. 4Dorothy3,259
  5. 5Joyce3,143
  6. 6Betty2,942
  7. 7Patricia2,903
  8. 8Jean2,582
  9. 9Shirley2,564
  10. 10Kathleen2,123
  11. 11June2,064
  12. 12Elizabeth1,822
  13. 13Eileen1,720
  14. 14Phyllis1,690
  15. 15Audrey1,633
  16. 16Doreen1,548
  17. 17Nancy1,398
  18. 18Mavis1,362
  19. 19Marjorie1,330
  20. 20Marie1,229
  21. 21Norma1,175
  22. 22Thelma1,170
  23. 23Edna1,168
  24. 24Doris1,122
  25. 25Helen1,095
  26. 26Gladys1,087
  27. 27Daphne1,086
  28. 28Ngaire1,047
  29. 29Barbara1,040
  30. 30Olive1,033
  31. 31Irene988
  32. 32Nola985
  33. 33Florence968
  34. 34Valerie949
  35. 35Elsie938
  36. 36Lorna920
  37. 37Hazel900
  38. 38Annie897
  39. 39Alice881
  40. 40Frances865
  41. 41Beryl822
  42. 42Ruth788
  43. 43Evelyn786
  44. 44Winifred751
  45. 45Edith740
  46. 46Noeline736
  47. 47Catherine727
  48. 48Iris726
  49. 49Muriel718
  50. 50Ellen713

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John9,378
  2. 2William7,160
  3. 3James5,038
  4. 4Robert4,625
  5. 5George3,349
  6. 6Ronald3,048
  7. 7Thomas2,826
  8. 8Raymond2,747
  9. 9David2,293
  10. 10Donald2,247
  11. 11Arthur2,223
  12. 12Kenneth2,120
  13. 13Gordon2,103
  14. 14Douglas2,101
  15. 15Ian2,078
  16. 16Peter2,034
  17. 17Charles2,014
  18. 18Leslie1,896
  19. 19Colin1,884
  20. 20Edward1,838
  21. 21Eric1,835
  22. 22Keith1,640
  23. 23Allan1,571
  24. 24Richard1,552
  25. 25Norman1,514
  26. 26Francis1,502
  27. 27Alan1,491
  28. 28Jack1,489
  29. 29Albert1,425
  30. 30Frederick1,403
  31. 31Desmond1,351
  32. 32Maurice1,351
  33. 33Brian1,330
  34. 34Noel1,311
  35. 35Stanley1,298
  36. 36Harold1,281
  37. 37Henry1,255
  38. 38Trevor1,243
  39. 39Leonard1,219
  40. 40Walter1,207
  41. 41Alexander1,143
  42. 42Bruce1,121
  43. 43Alfred1,106
  44. 44Ernest1,055
  45. 45Frank1,042
  46. 46Ivan1,039
  47. 47Patrick1,004
  48. 48Joseph989
  49. 49Roy971
  50. 50Mervyn853
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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.