Top NZ Baby Names of 1915

Mary (538) and John (928) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1915. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1910s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Mary538
  2. 2Margaret403
  3. 3Dorothy315
  4. 4Jean268
  5. 5Kathleen220
  6. 6Edna203
  7. 7Phyllis202
  8. 8Eileen194
  9. 9Joan192
  10. 10Joyce191
  11. 11Alice179
  12. 12Mavis178
  13. 13Annie176
  14. 14Florence168
  15. 15Doris165
  16. 16Elizabeth165
  17. 17Gladys161
  18. 18Elsie149
  19. 19Marjorie142
  20. 20Jessie139
  21. 21Edith137
  22. 22Winifred132
  23. 23Nancy131
  24. 24Thelma130
  25. 25Ellen127
  26. 26Ethel126
  27. 27Olive124
  28. 28Violet117
  29. 29Frances115
  30. 30Betty107
  31. 31Catherine104
  32. 32Ivy104
  33. 33Agnes103
  34. 34Iris102
  35. 35Grace99
  36. 36Helen97
  37. 37Rita97
  38. 38Hazel96
  39. 39Irene96
  40. 40Muriel94
  41. 41Evelyn90
  42. 42Hilda81
  43. 43Vera81
  44. 44Doreen80
  45. 45Mabel79
  46. 46Eva76
  47. 47Myrtle76
  48. 48Gwendoline73
  49. 49Ruby70
  50. 50Ruth68

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John928
  2. 2William776
  3. 3James546
  4. 4George448
  5. 5Robert392
  6. 6Thomas344
  7. 7Arthur307
  8. 8Charles279
  9. 9Albert256
  10. 10Edward228
  11. 11Ronald228
  12. 12Eric206
  13. 13Frederick203
  14. 14Leslie202
  15. 15Ian200
  16. 16Henry189
  17. 17David178
  18. 18Harold178
  19. 19Gordon177
  20. 20Norman175
  21. 21Alfred170
  22. 22Kenneth168
  23. 23Ernest154
  24. 24Walter154
  25. 25Francis151
  26. 26Raymond151
  27. 27Jack147
  28. 28Stanley144
  29. 29Frank142
  30. 30Leonard141
  31. 31Donald140
  32. 32Herbert139
  33. 33Alexander138
  34. 34Allan133
  35. 35Maurice128
  36. 36Richard128
  37. 37Douglas118
  38. 38Cyril116
  39. 39Joseph114
  40. 40Colin108
  41. 41Alan99
  42. 42Roy97
  43. 43Patrick94
  44. 44Reginald92
  45. 45Ivan83
  46. 46Harry80
  47. 47Sydney80
  48. 48Keith79
  49. 49Cecil77
  50. 50Noel76

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.