Born in 1900
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1900
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Anna
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Elizabeth
- Florence
- Ethel
- Marie
- Lillian
- Annie
- Edna
- Emma
- Alice
- Bessie
- Bertha
- Grace
- Rose
- Clara
- Mildred
- Gladys
- Minnie
- Gertrude
- Pearl
- Mabel
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Charles
- Robert
- Joseph
- Frank
- Edward
- Henry
- Thomas
- Walter
- Harry
- Willie
- Arthur
- Albert
- Fred
- Clarence
- Paul
- Harold
- Roy
- Joe
- Raymond
- Richard
- Charlie
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Frances
- Dorothy
- Martha
- Hazel
- Ida
- Irene
- Myrtle
- Eva
- Catherine
- Louise
- Edith
- Sarah
- Elsie
- Esther
- Lillie
- Agnes
- Ella
- Nellie
- Mattie
- Laura
- Julia
- Josephine
- Carrie
- Viola
- Hattie
- Ruby
- Lena
- Jessie
- Mae
- Cora
- Beatrice
- Alma
- Willie
- Mamie
- Blanche
- Lucy
- Fannie
- Lula
- Jennie
- Katherine
- Marion
- Lucille
- Stella
- Rosa
- Evelyn
- Pauline
- Ada
- Thelma
- Virginia
- Maggie
- Vera
- Maude
- Beulah
- Dora
- Susie
- Daisy
- Ellen
- Nora
- Sadie
- Leona
- Marguerite
- Georgia
- Eleanor
- Effie
- Della
- May
- Ann
- Kathryn
- Nettie
- Olive
- Bernice
- Lottie
- Sallie
- Nancy
- Betty
Boys
- Louis
- Jack
- Earl
- Carl
- Ernest
- Ralph
- David
- Samuel
- Sam
- Howard
- Herbert
- Andrew
- Elmer
- Lee
- Lawrence
- Francis
- Alfred
- Will
- Daniel
- Eugene
- Leo
- Oscar
- Floyd
- Herman
- Jesse
- Michael
- Lewis
- Tom
- Leonard
- Ray
- Clyde
- Benjamin
- Peter
- Claude
- Lester
- Theodore
- Russell
- Eddie
- Frederick
- Leroy
- Clifford
- Anthony
- Jim
- Jessie
- Martin
- Edgar
- Chester
- Ben
- Edwin
- Dewey
- Cecil
- Stanley
- Lloyd
- Donald
- Homer
- Harvey
- Luther
- Norman
- Johnnie
- Leon
- Bernard
- Ed
- Hugh
- Patrick
- Kenneth
- Leslie
- Victor
- Alexander
- Philip
- Oliver
- Mack
- Horace
- Milton
- Guy
- Everett
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1900.
Famous people born in 1900
Jacques Prévert · French poet and screenwriterFebruary 4
Adlai Stevenson II · American politician and diplomatFebruary 5
Hans-Georg Gadamer · German philosopherFebruary 11
Luis Buñuel · Spanish-Mexican filmmakerFebruary 22
Giorgos Seferis · Greek poet and diplomatMarch 13
Frédéric Joliot-Curie · French scientistMarch 19
Erich Fromm · German-American sociologist and psychoanalystMarch 23
Spencer Tracy · American actorApril 5
Sándor Márai · Hungarian writerApril 11
Wolfgang Pauli · Physicist, Nobel prize winnerApril 25
Charles Richter · American seismologistApril 26
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin · British-born American astronomerMay 10
Pridi Banomyong · Thai prime ministerMay 11
Dennis Gabor · Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holographyJune 5
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · French writer and aviatorJune 29
Zelda Fitzgerald · American writerJuly 24
Eyvind Johnson · Swedish writerJuly 29
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother · Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952August 4
Urho Kekkonen · Eighth President of FinlandSeptember 3
Julien Green · American authorSeptember 6
Thomas Wolfe · American writerOctober 3
Helen Hayes · American actressOctober 10
Jean Arthur · American actressOctober 17
Karin Boye · Swedish poet and novelistOctober 26
Aaron Copland · American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductorNovember 14
Richard Kuhn · Austrian-German biochemistDecember 3
Agnes Moorehead · American actressDecember 6
Mária Telkes · Hungarian–American scientist and inventorDecember 12