Popular names of 1907, and how old they are now

People born in 1907 turn 119 in 2026. Social Security recorded about 470,000 births in 1907 under names it lists, and by our estimate fewer than 100 of them are still alive.

The year's top names were Mary for girls and John for boys. Babies born that year belong to the Greatest Generation.

Top girl names of 1907

Most popular girl names of 1907
#	Name	Born 1907	Avg. age, everyone
1	Mary	17,580	66
2	Helen	7,579	66
3	Margaret	6,713	61
4	Anna	5,575	39
5	Ruth	5,573	62
6	Dorothy	4,967	72
7	Elizabeth	4,624	44
8	Mildred	4,277	74
9	Alice	4,107	53
10	Marie	3,880	62
11	Florence	3,750	66
12	Ethel	3,698	76
13	Lillian	3,542	29
14	Gladys	3,303	68
15	Edna	3,301	70
16	Frances	3,299	67
17	Rose	3,116	56
18	Evelyn	3,035	34
19	Annie	2,891	54
20	Grace	2,747	27
21	Louise	2,619	69
22	Irene	2,617	61
23	Hazel	2,530	27
24	Gertrude	2,499	76
25	Catherine	2,457	54
26	Bertha	2,363	69
27	Emma	2,356	20
28	Thelma	2,339	74
29	Clara	2,319	36
30	Bessie	2,311	74
31	Martha	2,274	66
32	Edith	2,177	57
33	Josephine	2,156	39
34	Ruby	2,113	39
35	Pearl	2,108	51
36	Mabel	2,069	34
37	Esther	2,062	42
38	Ida	1,980	65
39	Myrtle	1,929	79
40	Minnie	1,907	72
41	Virginia	1,893	66
42	Eva	1,884	36
43	Elsie	1,872	41
44	Beatrice	1,858	56
45	Lucille	1,853	52
46	Agnes	1,829	64
47	Viola	1,805	61
48	Sarah	1,799	39
49	Julia	1,680	38
50	Nellie	1,671	58

Top boy names of 1907

Most popular boy names of 1907
#	Name	Born 1907	Avg. age, everyone
1	John	8,983	55
2	William	6,904	51
3	James	6,707	54
4	George	4,445	57
5	Robert	4,020	58
6	Charles	3,884	54
7	Joseph	3,844	45
8	Frank	2,943	59
9	Edward	2,576	56
10	Henry	2,203	34
11	Thomas	2,174	53
12	Walter	2,095	58
13	Willie	1,968	64
14	Harry	1,813	62
15	Albert	1,636	57
16	Arthur	1,553	54
17	Harold	1,452	66
18	Clarence	1,389	62
19	Fred	1,371	67
20	Paul	1,358	57
21	Raymond	1,290	56
22	Richard	1,235	60
23	Joe	1,177	61
24	Roy	1,128	60
25	Louis	1,111	52
26	Jack	1,019	34
27	Carl	1,018	60
28	Earl	1,006	64
29	Ralph	997	65
30	Ernest	978	61
31	David	945	52
32	Samuel	892	32
33	Howard	875	65
34	Lawrence	801	60
35	Charlie	793	31
36	Alfred	738	60
37	Francis	717	57
38	Theodore	712	29
39	Herbert	710	65
40	Andrew	708	36
41	Eugene	691	63
42	Leo	651	24
43	Sam	631	47
44	Donald	616	64
45	Elmer	616	56
46	Anthony	593	40
47	Kenneth	589	57
48	Michael	586	49
49	Herman	561	63
50	Leroy	550	62

About these numbers

“Born” counts the babies of each sex given the name in 1907, from Social Security's records. “Alive today” estimates how many of them are still living, using SSA's cohort life tables for people born in 1907. “Avg. age, everyone” is the average age of everyone alive with the name, not just the 1907 babies. Records before the late 1930s undercount births, because many people born then never applied for a Social Security card. How we calculate this