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Born in 1906

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

Top 100 baby names of 1906

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Margaret
  4. Anna
  5. Ruth
  6. Dorothy
  7. Elizabeth
  8. Alice
  9. Mildred
  10. Florence
  11. Marie
  12. Ethel
  13. Lillian
  14. Frances
  15. Edna
  16. Gladys
  17. Rose
  18. Annie
  19. Grace
  20. Irene
  21. Bessie
  22. Gertrude
  23. Hazel
  24. Louise
  25. Bertha
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. George
  5. Robert
  6. Charles
  7. Joseph
  8. Frank
  9. Edward
  10. Thomas
  11. Henry
  12. Walter
  13. Willie
  14. Harry
  15. Arthur
  16. Albert
  17. Harold
  18. Clarence
  19. Paul
  20. Fred
  21. Raymond
  22. Louis
  23. Richard
  24. Roy
  25. Joe
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Catherine
  2. Clara
  3. Emma
  4. Martha
  5. Edith
  6. Thelma
  7. Evelyn
  8. Esther
  9. Mabel
  10. Pearl
  11. Ruby
  12. Myrtle
  13. Josephine
  14. Minnie
  15. Elsie
  16. Agnes
  17. Eva
  18. Ida
  19. Sarah
  20. Beatrice
  21. Lucille
  22. Viola
  23. Julia
  24. Nellie
  25. Lillie
  26. Virginia
  27. Laura
  28. Pauline
  29. Ella
  30. Mattie
  31. Katherine
  32. Alma
  33. Jessie
  34. Willie
  35. Mae
  36. Lena
  37. Carrie
  38. Marion
  39. Blanche
  40. Stella
  41. Bernice
  42. Eleanor
  43. Vera
  44. Lucy
  45. Ann
  46. Hattie
  47. Leona
  48. Mamie
  49. Jennie
  50. Beulah
  51. Fannie
  52. Cora
  53. Kathryn
  54. Lula
  55. Ellen
  56. Betty
  57. Rosa
  58. Doris
  59. Maggie
  60. Anne
  61. Violet
  62. Ada
  63. Lois
  64. Marguerite
  65. Daisy
  66. Dora
  67. Sadie
  68. Marjorie
  69. Velma
  70. Opal
  71. Georgia
  72. Hilda
  73. Susie
  74. Theresa
  75. Jean
Boys
  1. Ralph
  2. Carl
  3. Ernest
  4. Earl
  5. Jack
  6. David
  7. Howard
  8. Samuel
  9. Charlie
  10. Francis
  11. Lawrence
  12. Herbert
  13. Theodore
  14. Eugene
  15. Alfred
  16. Andrew
  17. Elmer
  18. Sam
  19. Anthony
  20. Kenneth
  21. Michael
  22. Leo
  23. Daniel
  24. Herman
  25. Leonard
  26. Donald
  27. Lester
  28. Russell
  29. Floyd
  30. Clyde
  31. Stanley
  32. Jesse
  33. Lee
  34. Peter
  35. Ray
  36. Chester
  37. Leroy
  38. Clifford
  39. Oscar
  40. Edwin
  41. Eddie
  42. Frederick
  43. Cecil
  44. Lewis
  45. Lloyd
  46. Benjamin
  47. Harvey
  48. Claude
  49. Bernard
  50. Martin
  51. Norman
  52. Jessie
  53. Milton
  54. Edgar
  55. Tom
  56. Everett
  57. Ben
  58. Melvin
  59. Allen
  60. Philip
  61. Homer
  62. Leon
  63. Leslie
  64. Luther
  65. Jim
  66. Johnnie
  67. Will
  68. Victor
  69. Marvin
  70. Alvin
  71. Morris
  72. Vernon
  73. Glenn
  74. Archie
  75. Patrick
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1906.

Famous people born in 1906

Albert Hofmann · Swiss chemistJanuary 11
Robert E. Howard · American authorJanuary 22
Clyde Tombaugh · American astronomerFebruary 4
John Carradine · American actorFebruary 5
Puyi · Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and ManchukuoFebruary 7
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga · Japanese physicistMarch 31
Samuel Beckett · Irish writerApril 13
Faisal of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975April 14
Kurt Gödel · Austrian-American logicianApril 28
Mary Astor · American actress and authorMay 3
Roberto Rossellini · Italian film directorMay 8
Josephine Baker · American-born French dancer, singer and actressJune 3
Billy Wilder · Austrian and American filmmakerJune 22
Maria Goeppert Mayer · German-born American theoretical physicistJune 28
Anthony Mann · American film directorJune 30
Hans Bethe · German-American nuclear physicistJuly 2
George Sanders · British actorJuly 3
Philip Johnson · American architectJuly 8
Vladimir Prelog · Bosnian-Swiss chemistJuly 23
John Huston · American film director, screenwriter, and actorAugust 5
Philo Farnsworth · American inventorAugust 19
Albert Sabin · Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologistAugust 26
Max Delbrück · BiophysicistSeptember 4
Luis Federico Leloir · Argentine biochemistSeptember 6
Dmitri Shostakovich · Soviet composer and pianistSeptember 25
Janet Gaynor · American actressOctober 6
Léopold Sédar Senghor · First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theoristOctober 9
Hannah Arendt · German-American political theorist and philosopherOctober 14
Dino Buzzati · Italian writerOctober 16
Luchino Visconti · Italian directorNovember 2
Louise Brooks · American actressNovember 14
George Wald · American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureateNovember 18
Klaus Mann · German writerNovember 18
Grace Hopper · American computer scientist and United States Navy officerDecember 9
Ernst Ruska · German physicistDecember 25

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