Top NZ Baby Names of 1914

Mary (588) and John (918) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1914. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1910s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Mary588
  2. 2Margaret470
  3. 3Dorothy276
  4. 4Jean263
  5. 5Kathleen251
  6. 6Eileen237
  7. 7Phyllis230
  8. 8Joyce211
  9. 9Mavis208
  10. 10Edna201
  11. 11Doris195
  12. 12Joan192
  13. 13Elizabeth183
  14. 14Annie181
  15. 15Alice176
  16. 16Gladys171
  17. 17Thelma170
  18. 18Marjorie164
  19. 19Florence160
  20. 20Elsie158
  21. 21Olive149
  22. 22Nancy132
  23. 23Jessie129
  24. 24Edith127
  25. 25Winifred121
  26. 26Ethel120
  27. 27Violet115
  28. 28Ellen114
  29. 29Frances114
  30. 30Agnes113
  31. 31Ivy112
  32. 32Catherine111
  33. 33Muriel107
  34. 34Evelyn105
  35. 35Hazel99
  36. 36Irene96
  37. 37Vera96
  38. 38Grace91
  39. 39Mabel91
  40. 40Helen88
  41. 41Myrtle85
  42. 42Iris84
  43. 43Lorna82
  44. 44Betty81
  45. 45Hilda81
  46. 46Rita81
  47. 47Eva76
  48. 48Ruby76
  49. 49Lilian75
  50. 50Audrey68

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John918
  2. 2William874
  3. 3James536
  4. 4George454
  5. 5Robert415
  6. 6Thomas350
  7. 7Charles324
  8. 8Arthur268
  9. 9Albert228
  10. 10Frederick220
  11. 11Ronald218
  12. 12Leslie208
  13. 13Edward201
  14. 14Henry197
  15. 15Eric196
  16. 16Gordon196
  17. 17Norman189
  18. 18Raymond187
  19. 19Harold184
  20. 20Walter178
  21. 21Jack176
  22. 22Francis175
  23. 23David166
  24. 24Kenneth163
  25. 25Ernest161
  26. 26Richard159
  27. 27Allan154
  28. 28Ian147
  29. 29Stanley144
  30. 30Leonard143
  31. 31Colin138
  32. 32Alexander137
  33. 33Alfred134
  34. 34Frank133
  35. 35Alan123
  36. 36Donald119
  37. 37Joseph119
  38. 38Herbert116
  39. 39Douglas110
  40. 40Ivan107
  41. 41Reginald98
  42. 42Bernard94
  43. 43Cyril92
  44. 44Maurice91
  45. 45Keith90
  46. 46Noel86
  47. 47Clifford85
  48. 48Patrick85
  49. 49Cecil83
  50. 50Roy80

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.