Top NZ Baby Names of 1904

Mary (459) and William (862) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1904. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1900s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Mary459
  2. 2Margaret292
  3. 3Annie254
  4. 4Dorothy225
  5. 5Florence205
  6. 6Eileen196
  7. 7Gladys193
  8. 8Alice188
  9. 9Elizabeth186
  10. 10Doris183
  11. 11Ivy172
  12. 12Elsie165
  13. 13Ethel161
  14. 14Kathleen159
  15. 15Myrtle155
  16. 16Irene154
  17. 17Olive150
  18. 18Jessie149
  19. 19Violet141
  20. 20Ellen140
  21. 21Vera140
  22. 22Edith135
  23. 23Muriel121
  24. 24Edna114
  25. 25Catherine110
  26. 26Winifred109
  27. 27Mabel106
  28. 28Marjorie100
  29. 29Phyllis100
  30. 30Thelma97
  31. 31Rita92
  32. 32Agnes91
  33. 33Mavis91
  34. 34Hazel88
  35. 35Frances81
  36. 36Ruby80
  37. 37Emily79
  38. 38Evelyn78
  39. 39Grace76
  40. 40Hilda74
  41. 41Ada73
  42. 42May70
  43. 43Eva68
  44. 44Helen67
  45. 45Constance64
  46. 46Ida64
  47. 47Isabella58
  48. 48Sarah58
  49. 49Mona57
  50. 50Lilian55

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1William862
  2. 2John738
  3. 3James464
  4. 4George441
  5. 5Thomas353
  6. 6Charles344
  7. 7Robert309
  8. 8Arthur271
  9. 9Albert265
  10. 10Frederick256
  11. 11Henry219
  12. 12Edward216
  13. 13Leslie214
  14. 14Harold206
  15. 15Alfred203
  16. 16Eric184
  17. 17Walter157
  18. 18Ernest150
  19. 19David147
  20. 20Francis147
  21. 21Richard129
  22. 22Joseph126
  23. 23Leonard124
  24. 24Herbert122
  25. 25Norman119
  26. 26Stanley119
  27. 27Alexander114
  28. 28Reginald112
  29. 29Cyril107
  30. 30Gordon106
  31. 31Kenneth88
  32. 32Frank86
  33. 33Ronald85
  34. 34Cecil77
  35. 35Percy77
  36. 36Douglas76
  37. 37Clarence74
  38. 38Raymond72
  39. 39Roy70
  40. 40Allan68
  41. 41Jack68
  42. 42Hector63
  43. 43Archibald62
  44. 44Andrew61
  45. 45Harry61
  46. 46Hugh58
  47. 47Donald56
  48. 48Sydney55
  49. 49Lawrence53
  50. 50Victor53

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.