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Born in 1901

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1901

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Anna
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Elizabeth
  7. Marie
  8. Florence
  9. Ethel
  10. Lillian
  11. Gladys
  12. Alice
  13. Edna
  14. Mildred
  15. Grace
  16. Annie
  17. Emma
  18. Clara
  19. Bertha
  20. Rose
  21. Bessie
  22. Dorothy
  23. Hazel
  24. Mabel
  25. Frances
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. George
  5. Charles
  6. Joseph
  7. Robert
  8. Frank
  9. Edward
  10. Henry
  11. Thomas
  12. Walter
  13. Harry
  14. Arthur
  15. Albert
  16. Willie
  17. Clarence
  18. Fred
  19. Paul
  20. Roy
  21. Harold
  22. Raymond
  23. Earl
  24. Carl
  25. Louis
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Minnie
  2. Gertrude
  3. Myrtle
  4. Martha
  5. Irene
  6. Pearl
  7. Edith
  8. Esther
  9. Ida
  10. Elsie
  11. Louise
  12. Eva
  13. Catherine
  14. Agnes
  15. Sarah
  16. Nellie
  17. Ella
  18. Josephine
  19. Laura
  20. Lillie
  21. Julia
  22. Viola
  23. Carrie
  24. Ruby
  25. Mattie
  26. Lena
  27. Alma
  28. Beatrice
  29. Mae
  30. Jessie
  31. Hattie
  32. Thelma
  33. Cora
  34. Blanche
  35. Mamie
  36. Lucy
  37. Evelyn
  38. Marion
  39. Pauline
  40. Stella
  41. Ada
  42. Lula
  43. Willie
  44. Jennie
  45. Lucille
  46. Katherine
  47. Fannie
  48. Vera
  49. Beulah
  50. Rosa
  51. Virginia
  52. Maude
  53. Leona
  54. Dora
  55. Maggie
  56. Nora
  57. Ellen
  58. Marguerite
  59. Eleanor
  60. Sadie
  61. Bernice
  62. Daisy
  63. Susie
  64. Ann
  65. Kathryn
  66. Violet
  67. Hilda
  68. Nettie
  69. Theresa
  70. May
  71. Georgia
  72. Effie
  73. Olive
  74. Emily
  75. Della
Boys
  1. Richard
  2. Joe
  3. Ernest
  4. Ralph
  5. David
  6. Charlie
  7. Jack
  8. Samuel
  9. Howard
  10. Herbert
  11. Francis
  12. Lawrence
  13. Elmer
  14. Alfred
  15. Andrew
  16. Sam
  17. Leo
  18. Theodore
  19. Eugene
  20. Lee
  21. Floyd
  22. Oscar
  23. Daniel
  24. Jesse
  25. Russell
  26. Herman
  27. Michael
  28. Will
  29. Leonard
  30. Clyde
  31. Benjamin
  32. Peter
  33. Claude
  34. Ray
  35. Frederick
  36. Lester
  37. Anthony
  38. Lewis
  39. Martin
  40. Edwin
  41. Eddie
  42. Tom
  43. Lloyd
  44. Clifford
  45. Cecil
  46. Edgar
  47. Leroy
  48. Ben
  49. Homer
  50. Chester
  51. Harvey
  52. Donald
  53. Kenneth
  54. Luther
  55. Bernard
  56. Jim
  57. Stanley
  58. Norman
  59. Philip
  60. Jessie
  61. Everett
  62. Leon
  63. Allen
  64. Leslie
  65. Milton
  66. Hugh
  67. Oliver
  68. Patrick
  69. Glenn
  70. Alvin
  71. Horace
  72. Melvin
  73. Jacob
  74. Guy
  75. Victor
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1901.

Famous people born in 1901

Eric Voegelin · American philosopherJanuary 3
Alfred Tarski · Polish-American logicianJanuary 14
Clark Gable · American actorFebruary 1
Jascha Heifetz · Russian-American violinistFebruary 2
Louis Kahn · Estonian-American architectFebruary 20
Linus Pauling · American scientistFebruary 28
Ed Begley · American actorMarch 25
Eisaku Satō · Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972March 27
Carl Barks · American cartoonistMarch 27
Melvyn Douglas · American actorApril 5
Jacques Lacan · French psychoanalyst and writerApril 13
Hirohito · Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989April 29
Simon Kuznets · Russian-born American economist and statisticianApril 30
Gary Cooper · American actorMay 7
Vincent du Vigneaud · American biochemistMay 18
Max Euwe · Dutch chess player and mathematicianMay 20
Carlo Biotti · Italian judgeJune 5
Sukarno · 1st President of IndonesiaJune 6
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia · Grand Duchess of RussiaJune 18
Vittorio De Sica · Italian film directorJuly 7
Jean Dubuffet · French artistJuly 31
Louis Armstrong · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singerAugust 4
Ernest Lawrence · American nuclear physicistAugust 8
Salvatore Quasimodo · Italian writerAugust 20
Charles Brenton Huggins · American physiologistSeptember 22
Jaroslav Seifert · Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureateSeptember 23
George Raft · American actorSeptember 26
Ed Sullivan · American television hostSeptember 28
Enrico Fermi · Italian–American physicistSeptember 29
André Malraux · French novelist, art theorist, and statesmanNovember 3
Leopold III of Belgium · King of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951November 3
Lee Strasberg · American theatre director, actor and acting teacherNovember 17
Walt Disney · American animatorDecember 5
Werner Heisenberg · German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winnerDecember 5
Margaret Mead · American anthropologistDecember 16
Marlene Dietrich · German and American actress and singerDecember 27

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