Top NZ Baby Names of 1920

Margaret (559) and John (1,003) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1920. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1920s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret559
  2. 2Mary529
  3. 3Joan444
  4. 4Dorothy371
  5. 5Joyce346
  6. 6Jean331
  7. 7Betty245
  8. 8Kathleen244
  9. 9Phyllis243
  10. 10Eileen235
  11. 11Patricia211
  12. 12Doris178
  13. 13Elizabeth178
  14. 14Mavis178
  15. 15Edna170
  16. 16Nancy170
  17. 17Gladys149
  18. 18Marjorie146
  19. 19Thelma139
  20. 20Florence138
  21. 21Annie137
  22. 22Olive136
  23. 23Doreen135
  24. 24June134
  25. 25Alice132
  26. 26Elsie128
  27. 27Winifred126
  28. 28Helen120
  29. 29Catherine114
  30. 30Audrey111
  31. 31Hazel110
  32. 32Edith107
  33. 33Irene106
  34. 34Violet105
  35. 35Jessie104
  36. 36Norma102
  37. 37Marie99
  38. 38Evelyn94
  39. 39Iris94
  40. 40Ruth92
  41. 41Ethel91
  42. 42Daphne88
  43. 43Muriel88
  44. 44Frances87
  45. 45Lorna86
  46. 46Ivy85
  47. 47Ellen83
  48. 48Agnes80
  49. 49Myrtle75
  50. 50Nola74

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John1,003
  2. 2William842
  3. 3James591
  4. 4Robert437
  5. 5George385
  6. 6Thomas356
  7. 7Ronald297
  8. 8Arthur288
  9. 9Charles279
  10. 10Edward270
  11. 11Douglas269
  12. 12Raymond246
  13. 13Leslie231
  14. 14Kenneth216
  15. 15Eric214
  16. 16Gordon213
  17. 17David205
  18. 18Francis200
  19. 19Albert197
  20. 20Frederick197
  21. 21Jack188
  22. 22Harold186
  23. 23Norman176
  24. 24Donald170
  25. 25Stanley168
  26. 26Henry167
  27. 27Alfred165
  28. 28Leonard155
  29. 29Allan154
  30. 30Richard154
  31. 31Colin148
  32. 32Walter147
  33. 33Ian146
  34. 34Ernest139
  35. 35Alexander136
  36. 36Maurice125
  37. 37Alan123
  38. 38Herbert122
  39. 39Joseph121
  40. 40Keith121
  41. 41Patrick115
  42. 42Frank114
  43. 43Noel112
  44. 44Reginald111
  45. 45Peter105
  46. 46Roy105
  47. 47Trevor98
  48. 48Desmond97
  49. 49Clifford83
  50. 50Bruce80

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.