Top NZ Baby Names of 1913

Mary (528) and John (1,057) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1913. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1910s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Mary528
  2. 2Margaret448
  3. 3Dorothy293
  4. 4Phyllis263
  5. 5Kathleen256
  6. 6Jean246
  7. 7Mavis227
  8. 8Annie215
  9. 9Edna208
  10. 10Eileen199
  11. 11Doris186
  12. 12Elizabeth183
  13. 13Alice181
  14. 14Gladys174
  15. 15Ethel161
  16. 16Marjorie161
  17. 17Florence159
  18. 18Thelma158
  19. 19Jessie155
  20. 20Ellen148
  21. 21Olive148
  22. 22Elsie144
  23. 23Joan138
  24. 24Joyce138
  25. 25Edith137
  26. 26Winifred134
  27. 27Violet130
  28. 28Hazel129
  29. 29Agnes127
  30. 30Rita119
  31. 31Catherine116
  32. 32Ivy115
  33. 33Irene114
  34. 34Myrtle114
  35. 35Mabel110
  36. 36Frances107
  37. 37Iris106
  38. 38Vera102
  39. 39Muriel95
  40. 40Nancy94
  41. 41Ruby90
  42. 42Grace89
  43. 43Helen89
  44. 44Hilda88
  45. 45Ruth84
  46. 46Evelyn75
  47. 47Lorna74
  48. 48Alma72
  49. 49Betty72
  50. 50Lilian72

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John1,057
  2. 2William890
  3. 3James586
  4. 4George470
  5. 5Robert417
  6. 6Thomas364
  7. 7Charles344
  8. 8Arthur312
  9. 9Leslie248
  10. 10Frederick228
  11. 11Henry228
  12. 12Albert224
  13. 13Ronald217
  14. 14Francis211
  15. 15Eric205
  16. 16Edward192
  17. 17Harold180
  18. 18David178
  19. 19Leonard171
  20. 20Gordon170
  21. 21Raymond170
  22. 22Walter169
  23. 23Alfred166
  24. 24Norman160
  25. 25Kenneth158
  26. 26Stanley158
  27. 27Ernest155
  28. 28Jack152
  29. 29Richard136
  30. 30Joseph134
  31. 31Allan129
  32. 32Alexander127
  33. 33Herbert125
  34. 34Frank123
  35. 35Douglas112
  36. 36Reginald111
  37. 37Alan108
  38. 38Cyril107
  39. 39Roy105
  40. 40Colin101
  41. 41Donald99
  42. 42Maurice98
  43. 43Cecil86
  44. 44Patrick84
  45. 45Keith83
  46. 46Hugh82
  47. 47Ian79
  48. 48Harry74
  49. 49Percy72
  50. 50Victor72

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.