Born in 1902
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1902
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Anna
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Elizabeth
- Florence
- Marie
- Ethel
- Alice
- Lillian
- Gladys
- Edna
- Mildred
- Dorothy
- Annie
- Grace
- Emma
- Bessie
- Rose
- Clara
- Bertha
- Frances
- Mabel
- Hazel
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Charles
- Robert
- Joseph
- Frank
- Edward
- Henry
- Thomas
- Walter
- Harry
- Willie
- Arthur
- Albert
- Clarence
- Fred
- Harold
- Paul
- Raymond
- Roy
- Joe
- Carl
- Louis
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Irene
- Gertrude
- Pearl
- Minnie
- Martha
- Catherine
- Myrtle
- Edith
- Ida
- Esther
- Louise
- Eva
- Elsie
- Sarah
- Agnes
- Nellie
- Josephine
- Laura
- Lillie
- Ella
- Julia
- Ruby
- Viola
- Beatrice
- Carrie
- Mattie
- Thelma
- Mae
- Jessie
- Alma
- Lena
- Hattie
- Blanche
- Evelyn
- Mamie
- Lucille
- Cora
- Stella
- Willie
- Lucy
- Marion
- Virginia
- Katherine
- Jennie
- Pauline
- Lula
- Fannie
- Vera
- Ada
- Rosa
- Leona
- Beulah
- Maggie
- Eleanor
- Maude
- Bernice
- Dora
- Ann
- Ellen
- Daisy
- Nora
- Kathryn
- Susie
- Sadie
- Marguerite
- Georgia
- Effie
- Doris
- Hilda
- Violet
- Della
- Emily
- Lois
- Olive
- Flora
Boys
- Richard
- Earl
- Ralph
- Ernest
- Charlie
- David
- Jack
- Samuel
- Theodore
- Howard
- Herbert
- Lawrence
- Francis
- Alfred
- Elmer
- Sam
- Andrew
- Leo
- Eugene
- Daniel
- Lee
- Floyd
- Michael
- Herman
- Jesse
- Peter
- Leonard
- Russell
- Anthony
- Oscar
- Edwin
- Ray
- Lester
- Lewis
- Clyde
- Benjamin
- Leroy
- Donald
- Will
- Cecil
- Eddie
- Lloyd
- Claude
- Stanley
- Frederick
- Clifford
- Martin
- Jessie
- Chester
- Tom
- Edgar
- Jim
- Kenneth
- Ben
- Homer
- Luther
- Harvey
- Bernard
- Norman
- Leslie
- Leon
- Melvin
- Everett
- Allen
- Philip
- Johnnie
- Hugh
- Alexander
- Stephen
- Jacob
- Milton
- Victor
- Patrick
- Alvin
- 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