Born in 1903
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1903
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Anna
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Elizabeth
- Marie
- Florence
- Ethel
- Mildred
- Dorothy
- Alice
- Lillian
- Gladys
- Edna
- Grace
- Annie
- Rose
- Frances
- Clara
- Bessie
- Bertha
- Emma
- Gertrude
- Mabel
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Charles
- Joseph
- Robert
- Frank
- Edward
- Thomas
- Henry
- Walter
- Harry
- Willie
- Arthur
- Albert
- Clarence
- Fred
- Paul
- Harold
- Raymond
- Roy
- Carl
- Joe
- Louis
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Hazel
- Pearl
- Irene
- Martha
- Myrtle
- Louise
- Catherine
- Edith
- Esther
- Minnie
- Eva
- Ida
- Elsie
- Agnes
- Josephine
- Sarah
- Ruby
- Laura
- Viola
- Nellie
- Lillie
- Thelma
- Julia
- Beatrice
- Ella
- Mattie
- Carrie
- Alma
- Evelyn
- Jessie
- Lena
- Lucille
- Mae
- Blanche
- Hattie
- Marion
- Pauline
- Virginia
- Fannie
- Stella
- Katherine
- Willie
- Lucy
- Mamie
- Cora
- Jennie
- Beulah
- Lula
- Rosa
- Vera
- Leona
- Bernice
- Ada
- Eleanor
- Maggie
- Dora
- Daisy
- Maude
- Ann
- Ellen
- Kathryn
- Nora
- Hilda
- Sadie
- Susie
- Marguerite
- Lois
- Violet
- Georgia
- Doris
- Della
- Olive
- Betty
- Velma
- Anne
Boys
- Richard
- Earl
- Jack
- Ralph
- Ernest
- Samuel
- Charlie
- David
- Herbert
- Francis
- Theodore
- Howard
- Leo
- Alfred
- Elmer
- Sam
- Andrew
- Lawrence
- Eugene
- Lee
- Floyd
- Michael
- Herman
- Leonard
- Daniel
- Oscar
- Clyde
- Lester
- Anthony
- Ray
- Russell
- Jesse
- Peter
- Stanley
- Donald
- Clifford
- Edwin
- Frederick
- Leroy
- Lewis
- Cecil
- Kenneth
- Chester
- Benjamin
- Eddie
- Claude
- Lloyd
- Tom
- Harvey
- Will
- Leon
- Martin
- Jessie
- Bernard
- Luther
- Ben
- Edgar
- Homer
- Jim
- Philip
- Norman
- Johnnie
- Melvin
- Leslie
- Alvin
- Allen
- Milton
- Oliver
- Patrick
- Everett
- Stephen
- Glenn
- Roosevelt
- Victor
- Alexander
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1903.
Famous people born in 1903
Kane Tanaka · Japanese supercentenarianJanuary 2
Alan Paton · South African writer and activistJanuary 11
Georges Simenon · Belgian writerFebruary 13
Anaïs Nin · French-born American authorFebruary 21
Giulio Natta · Italian chemistFebruary 26
Vincente Minnelli · American stage and film directorFebruary 28
Adolf Butenandt · German biochemistMarch 24
Jan Tinbergen · Dutch economistApril 12
Andrey Kolmogorov · Russian mathematicianApril 25
Benjamin Spock · American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child CareMay 2
Fernandel · French actor and singerMay 8
Bob Hope · American entertainerMay 29
Aram Khachaturian · Soviet Armenian composerJune 6
Alonzo Church · American mathematician and logicianJune 14
George Orwell · British writer and journalistJune 25
Anne Revere · American actressJune 25
Alec Douglas-Home · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964July 2
Olav V · King of NorwayJuly 2
Irving Stone · American writerJuly 14
Habib Bourguiba · Tunisian politicianAugust 3
Fahri Korutürk · 6th President of the Republic of TurkeyAugust 3
Theodor W. Adorno · German philosopher, sociologist and theoristSeptember 11
Claudette Colbert · American actressSeptember 13
Mark Rothko · American painter of Latvian-Jewish descentSeptember 25
John Vincent Atanasoff · American computer pioneerOctober 4
Ernest Walton · Irish physicist and Nobel laureateOctober 6
George Beadle · American geneticistOctober 22
Evelyn Waugh · British writer and journalistOctober 28
Konrad Lorenz · Austrian zoologistNovember 7
Dean Jagger · American actorNovember 7
Lars Onsager · American physical chemist and theoretical physicistNovember 27
C. F. Powell · British physicistDecember 5
Yasujirō Ozu · Japanese film director, screenwriterDecember 12
Erskine Caldwell · American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayistDecember 17
George Davis Snell · American geneticistDecember 19
Haldan Keffer Hartline · American neuroscientistDecember 22
John von Neumann · Hungarian and American mathematician and physicistDecember 28