Top NZ Baby Names of 1918

Margaret (458) and John (839) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1918. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1910s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret458
  2. 2Mary422
  3. 3Dorothy335
  4. 4Jean266
  5. 5Joyce266
  6. 6Joan249
  7. 7Kathleen230
  8. 8Phyllis198
  9. 9Eileen184
  10. 10Doris175
  11. 11Edna168
  12. 12Elizabeth156
  13. 13Florence148
  14. 14Marjorie148
  15. 15Gladys143
  16. 16Mavis141
  17. 17Olive137
  18. 18Annie136
  19. 19Betty136
  20. 20Nancy129
  21. 21Alice123
  22. 22Edith123
  23. 23Winifred123
  24. 24Elsie120
  25. 25Ethel112
  26. 26Patricia112
  27. 27Thelma108
  28. 28Jessie105
  29. 29Frances102
  30. 30Hazel102
  31. 31Doreen101
  32. 32Vera99
  33. 33Helen98
  34. 34Violet96
  35. 35Iris93
  36. 36Grace91
  37. 37Catherine90
  38. 38Muriel89
  39. 39Agnes85
  40. 40Irene85
  41. 41Ellen84
  42. 42Evelyn82
  43. 43Audrey81
  44. 44Ivy79
  45. 45Gwendoline75
  46. 46Ruth74
  47. 47Rita72
  48. 48Myrtle70
  49. 49Mabel69
  50. 50Marie65

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John839
  2. 2William703
  3. 3James469
  4. 4Robert403
  5. 5George382
  6. 6Thomas308
  7. 7Arthur287
  8. 8Charles259
  9. 9Douglas245
  10. 10Ronald209
  11. 11Leslie207
  12. 12Frederick196
  13. 13Albert182
  14. 14Edward176
  15. 15Gordon176
  16. 16Walter165
  17. 17Francis163
  18. 18Eric160
  19. 19Raymond155
  20. 20Norman154
  21. 21David153
  22. 22Harold153
  23. 23Henry149
  24. 24Jack145
  25. 25Ernest142
  26. 26Alfred141
  27. 27Leonard140
  28. 28Richard140
  29. 29Kenneth136
  30. 30Donald130
  31. 31Herbert127
  32. 32Stanley122
  33. 33Frank117
  34. 34Colin116
  35. 35Alexander114
  36. 36Allan113
  37. 37Ian107
  38. 38Cyril105
  39. 39Maurice99
  40. 40Joseph98
  41. 41Patrick98
  42. 42Reginald95
  43. 43Roy90
  44. 44Noel89
  45. 45Alan88
  46. 46Ivan84
  47. 47Victor74
  48. 48Trevor71
  49. 49Harry69
  50. 50Peter69

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.