Top NZ Baby Names of 1925

Margaret (568) and John (955) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1925. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1920s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret568
  2. 2Mary435
  3. 3Joan399
  4. 4Betty343
  5. 5Patricia311
  6. 6Joyce308
  7. 7Dorothy306
  8. 8Shirley295
  9. 9Jean245
  10. 10Kathleen224
  11. 11June218
  12. 12Eileen187
  13. 13Audrey165
  14. 14Phyllis157
  15. 15Elizabeth151
  16. 16Nancy140
  17. 17Doreen139
  18. 18Marjorie127
  19. 19Mavis122
  20. 20Daphne121
  21. 21Marie111
  22. 22Ngaire111
  23. 23Edna110
  24. 24Norma110
  25. 25Thelma107
  26. 26Barbara105
  27. 27Nola105
  28. 28Helen104
  29. 29Olive103
  30. 30Elsie96
  31. 31Lorna95
  32. 32Valerie94
  33. 33Irene92
  34. 34Doris91
  35. 35Gladys89
  36. 36Alice88
  37. 37Beryl87
  38. 38Noeline85
  39. 39Annie80
  40. 40Florence80
  41. 41Lois80
  42. 42Evelyn79
  43. 43Hazel78
  44. 44Winifred76
  45. 45Frances75
  46. 46Edith72
  47. 47Iris72
  48. 48Ruth67
  49. 49Jessie66
  50. 50Muriel65

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John955
  2. 2William725
  3. 3James522
  4. 4Robert444
  5. 5George345
  6. 6Ronald308
  7. 7Raymond293
  8. 8Thomas292
  9. 9Gordon242
  10. 10Arthur238
  11. 11Donald225
  12. 12Colin220
  13. 13David218
  14. 14Kenneth216
  15. 15Douglas213
  16. 16Charles208
  17. 17Peter201
  18. 18Ian191
  19. 19Edward189
  20. 20Leslie188
  21. 21Eric169
  22. 22Richard161
  23. 23Noel157
  24. 24Allan156
  25. 25Desmond154
  26. 26Alan153
  27. 27Norman150
  28. 28Francis146
  29. 29Frederick143
  30. 30Harold141
  31. 31Keith135
  32. 32Albert133
  33. 33Walter132
  34. 34Brian127
  35. 35Jack127
  36. 36Leonard126
  37. 37Maurice126
  38. 38Stanley126
  39. 39Alexander125
  40. 40Henry124
  41. 41Bruce119
  42. 42Alfred118
  43. 43Trevor118
  44. 44Roy104
  45. 45Patrick98
  46. 46Joseph96
  47. 47Ivan94
  48. 48Mervyn91
  49. 49Herbert84
  50. 50Ernest83

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.