Top NZ Baby Names of 1919

Margaret (446) and John (801) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1919. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1910s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret446
  2. 2Mary389
  3. 3Dorothy311
  4. 4Joyce299
  5. 5Joan280
  6. 6Jean270
  7. 7Phyllis210
  8. 8Kathleen206
  9. 9Betty181
  10. 10Eileen166
  11. 11Mavis155
  12. 12Doris145
  13. 13Nancy137
  14. 14Patricia137
  15. 15Gladys134
  16. 16Edna131
  17. 17Elizabeth127
  18. 18Alice126
  19. 19Olive122
  20. 20Marjorie111
  21. 21Elsie107
  22. 22Florence106
  23. 23Winifred105
  24. 24Edith104
  25. 25Doreen103
  26. 26Thelma103
  27. 27Jessie101
  28. 28Annie98
  29. 29Violet97
  30. 30Hazel95
  31. 31Ethel94
  32. 32Frances93
  33. 33June92
  34. 34Agnes90
  35. 35Audrey90
  36. 36Catherine89
  37. 37Irene89
  38. 38Norma85
  39. 39Evelyn81
  40. 40Helen81
  41. 41Ellen79
  42. 42Muriel75
  43. 43Ivy74
  44. 44Gwendoline72
  45. 45Grace70
  46. 46Daphne69
  47. 47Vera67
  48. 48Barbara66
  49. 49Ruth66
  50. 50Lorna65

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John801
  2. 2William698
  3. 3James447
  4. 4Robert376
  5. 5George329
  6. 6Thomas297
  7. 7Douglas258
  8. 8Arthur223
  9. 9Charles216
  10. 10Ronald210
  11. 11Leslie187
  12. 12Raymond185
  13. 13David174
  14. 14Gordon174
  15. 15Eric167
  16. 16Edward162
  17. 17Kenneth158
  18. 18Francis157
  19. 19Frederick157
  20. 20Jack155
  21. 21Norman155
  22. 22Albert153
  23. 23Harold148
  24. 24Henry145
  25. 25Walter137
  26. 26Donald136
  27. 27Alfred133
  28. 28Colin132
  29. 29Leonard131
  30. 30Richard128
  31. 31Alexander126
  32. 32Allan119
  33. 33Ian119
  34. 34Ernest117
  35. 35Frank115
  36. 36Herbert106
  37. 37Stanley104
  38. 38Noel97
  39. 39Maurice95
  40. 40Joseph94
  41. 41Patrick93
  42. 42Reginald93
  43. 43Alan89
  44. 44Roy86
  45. 45Keith83
  46. 46Cyril78
  47. 47Harry76
  48. 48Trevor76
  49. 49Victor74
  50. 50Desmond71

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.