Born in 1905
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1905
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Margaret
- Anna
- Ruth
- Elizabeth
- Dorothy
- Mildred
- Marie
- Alice
- Florence
- Ethel
- Lillian
- Gladys
- Edna
- Frances
- Annie
- Rose
- Grace
- Bessie
- Bertha
- Clara
- Louise
- Irene
- Hazel
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Charles
- Robert
- Joseph
- Frank
- Edward
- Thomas
- Henry
- Walter
- Willie
- Harry
- Albert
- Arthur
- Clarence
- Fred
- Paul
- Harold
- Raymond
- Richard
- Joe
- Roy
- Louis
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Emma
- Gertrude
- Catherine
- Mabel
- Edith
- Pearl
- Martha
- Myrtle
- Esther
- Minnie
- Thelma
- Josephine
- Ruby
- Eva
- Elsie
- Sarah
- Ida
- Agnes
- Viola
- Beatrice
- Evelyn
- Julia
- Nellie
- Laura
- Lucille
- Lillie
- Ella
- Virginia
- Pauline
- Mattie
- Alma
- Jessie
- Carrie
- Willie
- Mae
- Lena
- Hattie
- Blanche
- Katherine
- Marion
- Lucy
- Stella
- Fannie
- Leona
- Mamie
- Vera
- Cora
- Eleanor
- Bernice
- Ann
- Jennie
- Beulah
- Lula
- Rosa
- Ada
- Ellen
- Violet
- Doris
- Maggie
- Betty
- Kathryn
- Daisy
- Lois
- Dora
- Marguerite
- Sadie
- Nora
- Susie
- Georgia
- Velma
- Marjorie
- Maude
- Anne
- Opal
- Emily
Boys
- Carl
- Ralph
- Jack
- Earl
- Samuel
- Ernest
- David
- Theodore
- Charlie
- Howard
- Francis
- Herbert
- Lawrence
- Andrew
- Sam
- Elmer
- Eugene
- Alfred
- Floyd
- Michael
- Leo
- Leonard
- Anthony
- Lee
- Daniel
- Herman
- Clyde
- Kenneth
- Jesse
- Leroy
- Oscar
- Lester
- Russell
- Donald
- Ray
- Clifford
- Peter
- Claude
- Chester
- Lewis
- Stanley
- Frederick
- Benjamin
- Lloyd
- Edwin
- Norman
- Cecil
- Eddie
- Jessie
- Martin
- Homer
- Tom
- Edgar
- Luther
- Milton
- Johnnie
- Bernard
- Melvin
- Ben
- Harvey
- Will
- Leon
- Allen
- Everett
- Victor
- Roosevelt
- Alvin
- Stephen
- Leslie
- Jim
- Philip
- Virgil
- Jacob
- Otis
- Marvin
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1905.
Famous people born in 1905
Christian Dior · French fashion designerJanuary 21
Ayn Rand · Russian-born American writer and public philosopherFebruary 2
Władysław Gomułka · Polish politicianFebruary 6
Raymond Aron · French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientistMarch 14
Raymond Cattell · British-American psychologistMarch 20
Viktor Frankl · Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and authorMarch 26
Attila József · Hungarian poetApril 11
George H. Hitchings · Nobel Prize-winning American physicianApril 18
Robert Penn Warren · American poet, novelist, and literary criticApril 24
Joseph Cotten · American actorMay 15
Henry Fonda · American actorMay 16
Mikhail Sholokhov · Soviet writerMay 24
Lillian Hellman · American dramatist and screenwriterJune 20
Jean-Paul Sartre · French existentialist philosopherJune 21
Elias Canetti · Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelistJuly 25
Dag Hammarskjöld · Swedish diplomat, economist, and authorJuly 29
Clara Bow · American actressJuly 29
Myrna Loy · American actressAugust 2
Carl David Anderson · American physicistSeptember 3
Arthur Koestler · Hungarian-British author and journalistSeptember 5
Greta Garbo · Swedish-American actressSeptember 18
Severo Ochoa · Spanish physicianSeptember 24
Nevill Mott · English physicist, Nobel prize winnerSeptember 30
Fred Trump · American real estate developerOctober 11
Karl Guthe Jansky · American physicist and radio engineerOctober 22
Felix Bloch · Swiss physicistOctober 23
Otto Preminger · Austrian-American director, producer, and actorDecember 5
Gerard Kuiper · Netherlands-born American astronomerDecember 7
Dalton Trumbo · American screenwriterDecember 9
Simo Häyhä · Finnish military sniperDecember 17