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Born in 1904

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

Top 100 baby names of 1904

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Anna
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Elizabeth
  7. Marie
  8. Florence
  9. Mildred
  10. Dorothy
  11. Ethel
  12. Lillian
  13. Alice
  14. Gladys
  15. Edna
  16. Frances
  17. Annie
  18. Rose
  19. Grace
  20. Bertha
  21. Bessie
  22. Emma
  23. Hazel
  24. Clara
  25. Gertrude
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. George
  5. Robert
  6. Charles
  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. Paul
  20. Harold
  21. Roy
  22. Raymond
  23. Joe
  24. Richard
  25. Carl
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Irene
  2. Mabel
  3. Louise
  4. Martha
  5. Pearl
  6. Catherine
  7. Esther
  8. Edith
  9. Myrtle
  10. Minnie
  11. Eva
  12. Thelma
  13. Ida
  14. Elsie
  15. Josephine
  16. Ruby
  17. Agnes
  18. Sarah
  19. Nellie
  20. Beatrice
  21. Viola
  22. Laura
  23. Ella
  24. Julia
  25. Evelyn
  26. Lillie
  27. Mattie
  28. Lucille
  29. Carrie
  30. Alma
  31. Pauline
  32. Lena
  33. Mae
  34. Virginia
  35. Jessie
  36. Willie
  37. Blanche
  38. Katherine
  39. Hattie
  40. Marion
  41. Lucy
  42. Mamie
  43. Stella
  44. Leona
  45. Cora
  46. Vera
  47. Beulah
  48. Fannie
  49. Jennie
  50. Bernice
  51. Rosa
  52. Lula
  53. Ann
  54. Ada
  55. Eleanor
  56. Maggie
  57. Dora
  58. Kathryn
  59. Ellen
  60. Daisy
  61. Maude
  62. Violet
  63. Doris
  64. Georgia
  65. Lois
  66. Betty
  67. Sadie
  68. Nora
  69. Marguerite
  70. Susie
  71. Marjorie
  72. Anne
  73. Hilda
  74. Lola
  75. Opal
Boys
  1. Louis
  2. Jack
  3. Ralph
  4. Earl
  5. Theodore
  6. David
  7. Ernest
  8. Charlie
  9. Samuel
  10. Howard
  11. Francis
  12. Herbert
  13. Lawrence
  14. Elmer
  15. Sam
  16. Alfred
  17. Leo
  18. Andrew
  19. Eugene
  20. Lee
  21. Leonard
  22. Herman
  23. Russell
  24. Daniel
  25. Michael
  26. Clyde
  27. Floyd
  28. Jesse
  29. Oscar
  30. Ray
  31. Anthony
  32. Kenneth
  33. Donald
  34. Lewis
  35. Leroy
  36. Lester
  37. Peter
  38. Frederick
  39. Edwin
  40. Stanley
  41. Clifford
  42. Cecil
  43. Benjamin
  44. Chester
  45. Claude
  46. Martin
  47. Bernard
  48. Lloyd
  49. Tom
  50. Eddie
  51. Jessie
  52. Norman
  53. Alton
  54. Harvey
  55. Edgar
  56. Will
  57. Luther
  58. Ben
  59. Johnnie
  60. Jim
  61. Philip
  62. Homer
  63. Alvin
  64. Jacob
  65. Leon
  66. Leslie
  67. Melvin
  68. Milton
  69. Roosevelt
  70. Everett
  71. Allen
  72. Patrick
  73. Victor
  74. Glenn
  75. Virgil
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1904.

Famous people born in 1904

Cary Grant · British-American actorJanuary 18
George Balanchine · American choreographer, dancer and ballet masterJanuary 22
Seán MacBride · Irish politician and human rights activistJanuary 26
George F. Kennan · American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historianFebruary 16
Hans Morgenthau · American political scientistFebruary 17
William L. Shirer · American journalistFebruary 23
Glenn Miller · American band leader, arranger, and composerMarch 1
Dr. Seuss · American children's author and cartoonistMarch 2
George Gamow · Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologistMarch 4
B. F. Skinner · American behavioristMarch 20
Joseph Campbell · American mythologist, writer and lecturerMarch 26
Kurt Georg Kiesinger · Chancellor of West GermanyApril 6
John Hicks · British economistApril 8
John Gielgud · British actor and theatre directorApril 14
Arshile Gorky · Armenian-American painterApril 15
J. Robert Oppenheimer · American theoretical physicistApril 22
Willem de Kooning · Dutch-American abstract expressionist artistApril 24
Harry Martinson · Swedish writerMay 6
Salvador Dalí · Spanish artistMay 11
Jean Gabin · French actor and singerMay 17
Fats Waller · American jazz pianist and composerMay 21
Johnny Weissmuller · American swimmer, water polo player, and actorJune 2
Peter Lorre · Hungarian and American actorJune 26
Ernst Mayr · German-American evolutionary biologistJuly 5
Pablo Neruda · Chilean poet and politicianJuly 12
Pavel Cherenkov · Soviet physicistJuly 28
Clifford D. Simak · American writer, journalistAugust 3
Witold Gombrowicz · Polish writerAugust 4
Ralph Bunche · Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first AfricanAugust 7
Wendell Meredith Stanley · American biochemist and virologistAugust 16
Count Basie · American jazz musician and composerAugust 21
Deng Xiaoping · Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989August 22
Christopher Isherwood · British-American novelistAugust 26
Greer Garson · British-American actressSeptember 29
Graham Greene · British writer, playwright and literary criticOctober 2
Lal Bahadur Shastri · Prime Minister of IndiaOctober 2
Charles J. Pedersen · American organic chemistOctober 3
Nnamdi Azikiwe · First President of NigeriaNovember 16
Louis Néel · French physicistNovember 22
Alejo Carpentier · Cuban-French writer and musicologistDecember 26

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