Top NZ Baby Names of the 1900s

Registrations added up across 1900-1909. Mary and William were the decade's most registered names. Click any name to see its full trend.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Mary4,705
  2. 2Margaret3,201
  3. 3Dorothy2,378
  4. 4Annie2,264
  5. 5Alice2,073
  6. 6Gladys2,018
  7. 7Doris2,017
  8. 8Eileen1,907
  9. 9Elizabeth1,872
  10. 10Florence1,855
  11. 11Elsie1,770
  12. 12Kathleen1,728
  13. 13Ivy1,544
  14. 14Jessie1,503
  15. 15Ethel1,484
  16. 16Myrtle1,434
  17. 17Violet1,398
  18. 18Edith1,388
  19. 19Ellen1,360
  20. 20Edna1,350
  21. 21Olive1,342
  22. 22Irene1,316
  23. 23Catherine1,280
  24. 24Vera1,222
  25. 25Agnes1,171
  26. 26Winifred1,112
  27. 27Thelma1,027
  28. 28Phyllis1,023
  29. 29Mabel1,003
  30. 30Mavis962
  31. 31Muriel958
  32. 32Evelyn948
  33. 33Ruby947
  34. 34Grace932
  35. 35Rita911
  36. 36Marjorie861
  37. 37Hazel851
  38. 38Frances845
  39. 39Eva811
  40. 40Hilda775
  41. 41May713
  42. 42Emily709
  43. 43Helen697
  44. 44Ada660
  45. 45Isabella628
  46. 46Ida615
  47. 47Jean613
  48. 48Constance599
  49. 49Mona573
  50. 50Lilian556

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1William8,593
  2. 2John7,664
  3. 3James4,729
  4. 4George4,267
  5. 5Charles3,427
  6. 6Robert3,381
  7. 7Thomas3,293
  8. 8Arthur2,920
  9. 9Albert2,364
  10. 10Frederick2,337
  11. 11Edward2,102
  12. 12Henry2,004
  13. 13Leslie1,945
  14. 14Alfred1,862
  15. 15Harold1,722
  16. 16Eric1,695
  17. 17Francis1,627
  18. 18Walter1,600
  19. 19Ernest1,586
  20. 20Alexander1,388
  21. 21David1,378
  22. 22Herbert1,318
  23. 23Joseph1,304
  24. 24Norman1,296
  25. 25Leonard1,265
  26. 26Stanley1,199
  27. 27Richard1,171
  28. 28Gordon1,157
  29. 29Frank1,152
  30. 30Cecil1,017
  31. 31Ronald1,000
  32. 32Reginald978
  33. 33Cyril964
  34. 34Kenneth879
  35. 35Douglas813
  36. 36Raymond808
  37. 37Roy787
  38. 38Clarence784
  39. 39Jack751
  40. 40Allan739
  41. 41Donald719
  42. 42Percy715
  43. 43Hector692
  44. 44Harry690
  45. 45Andrew602
  46. 46Victor596
  47. 47Hugh589
  48. 48Sydney588
  49. 49Samuel541
  50. 50Maurice471
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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.