Born in 1902

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

Top 100 baby names of 1902

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Anna
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Elizabeth
  7. Florence
  8. Marie
  9. Ethel
  10. Alice
  11. Lillian
  12. Gladys
  13. Edna
  14. Mildred
  15. Dorothy
  16. Annie
  17. Grace
  18. Emma
  19. Bessie
  20. Rose
  21. Clara
  22. Bertha
  23. Frances
  24. Mabel
  25. Hazel
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. George
  5. Charles
  6. Robert
  7. Joseph
  8. Frank
  9. Edward
  10. Henry
  11. Thomas
  12. Walter
  13. Harry
  14. Willie
  15. Arthur
  16. Albert
  17. Clarence
  18. Fred
  19. Harold
  20. Paul
  21. Raymond
  22. Roy
  23. Joe
  24. Carl
  25. Louis
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Irene
  2. Gertrude
  3. Pearl
  4. Minnie
  5. Martha
  6. Catherine
  7. Myrtle
  8. Edith
  9. Ida
  10. Esther
  11. Louise
  12. Eva
  13. Elsie
  14. Sarah
  15. Agnes
  16. Nellie
  17. Josephine
  18. Laura
  19. Lillie
  20. Ella
  21. Julia
  22. Ruby
  23. Viola
  24. Beatrice
  25. Carrie
  26. Mattie
  27. Thelma
  28. Mae
  29. Jessie
  30. Alma
  31. Lena
  32. Hattie
  33. Blanche
  34. Evelyn
  35. Mamie
  36. Lucille
  37. Cora
  38. Stella
  39. Willie
  40. Lucy
  41. Marion
  42. Virginia
  43. Katherine
  44. Jennie
  45. Pauline
  46. Lula
  47. Fannie
  48. Vera
  49. Ada
  50. Rosa
  51. Leona
  52. Beulah
  53. Maggie
  54. Eleanor
  55. Maude
  56. Bernice
  57. Dora
  58. Ann
  59. Ellen
  60. Daisy
  61. Nora
  62. Kathryn
  63. Susie
  64. Sadie
  65. Marguerite
  66. Georgia
  67. Effie
  68. Doris
  69. Hilda
  70. Violet
  71. Della
  72. Emily
  73. Lois
  74. Olive
  75. Flora
Boys
  1. Richard
  2. Earl
  3. Ralph
  4. Ernest
  5. Charlie
  6. David
  7. Jack
  8. Samuel
  9. Theodore
  10. Howard
  11. Herbert
  12. Lawrence
  13. Francis
  14. Alfred
  15. Elmer
  16. Sam
  17. Andrew
  18. Leo
  19. Eugene
  20. Daniel
  21. Lee
  22. Floyd
  23. Michael
  24. Herman
  25. Jesse
  26. Peter
  27. Leonard
  28. Russell
  29. Anthony
  30. Oscar
  31. Edwin
  32. Ray
  33. Lester
  34. Lewis
  35. Clyde
  36. Benjamin
  37. Leroy
  38. Donald
  39. Will
  40. Cecil
  41. Eddie
  42. Lloyd
  43. Claude
  44. Stanley
  45. Frederick
  46. Clifford
  47. Martin
  48. Jessie
  49. Chester
  50. Tom
  51. Edgar
  52. Jim
  53. Kenneth
  54. Ben
  55. Homer
  56. Luther
  57. Harvey
  58. Bernard
  59. Norman
  60. Leslie
  61. Leon
  62. Melvin
  63. Everett
  64. Allen
  65. Philip
  66. Johnnie
  67. Hugh
  68. Alexander
  69. Stephen
  70. Jacob
  71. Milton
  72. Victor
  73. Patrick
  74. Alvin
  75. Horace
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1902.

Famous people born in 1902

Carl Rogers · American psychologistJanuary 8
Georgy Malenkov · Soviet politicianJanuary 8
Josemaría Escrivá · Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saintJanuary 9
Saud of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964January 15
Tallulah Bankhead · American actressJanuary 31
Alva Myrdal · Swedish sociologist and politicianJanuary 31
Charles Lindbergh · American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activistFebruary 4
Walter Brattain · American physicistFebruary 10
Thelma Ritter · American actress and vaudevillianFebruary 14
Ansel Adams · American photographer and environmentalistFebruary 20
John Steinbeck · American writerFebruary 27
Halldór Laxness · Icelandic authorApril 23
Theodore Schultz · American economistApril 30
Alfred Kastler · French physicistMay 3
David O. Selznick · American film producerMay 10
Erik Erikson · American German-born psychoanalyst & essayistJune 15
Barbara McClintock · American scientist and cytogeneticistJune 16
Richard Rodgers · American composer of songs and Broadway musicalsJune 28
William Wyler · Swiss-German-American director and producerJuly 1
Kurt Alder · German chemistJuly 10
Eric Hoffer · American philosopherJuly 25
Karl Popper · Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política eJuly 28
Paul Dirac · British theoretical physicistAugust 8
Arne Tiselius · Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in ChemistryAugust 10
Fernand Braudel · French historian and leader of the Annales SchoolAugust 24
Darryl F. Zanuck · American film producerSeptember 5
John Houseman · Romanian-born British–American actor and film producerSeptember 22
Ray Kroc · American businessmanOctober 5
Miriam Hopkins · American actressOctober 18
Elsa Lanchester · British-American actressOctober 28
Eugene Wigner · Hungarian-American physicist and mathematicianNovember 17
Mikhail Suslov · Soviet-era statesmanNovember 21
Strom Thurmond · American politicianDecember 5
Talcott Parsons · American sociologistDecember 13
Charan Singh · Prime Minister of IndiaDecember 23
Mortimer J. Adler · American philosopher, author and educatorDecember 28

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