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Born in 1908

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

Top 100 baby names of 1908

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Margaret
  4. Ruth
  5. Anna
  6. Dorothy
  7. Elizabeth
  8. Mildred
  9. Alice
  10. Marie
  11. Florence
  12. Ethel
  13. Lillian
  14. Frances
  15. Gladys
  16. Rose
  17. Edna
  18. Louise
  19. Grace
  20. Evelyn
  21. Annie
  22. Catherine
  23. Irene
  24. Hazel
  25. Gertrude
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. George
  5. Robert
  6. Joseph
  7. Charles
  8. Frank
  9. Edward
  10. Thomas
  11. Henry
  12. Walter
  13. Willie
  14. Harry
  15. Albert
  16. Arthur
  17. Harold
  18. Paul
  19. Clarence
  20. Fred
  21. Raymond
  22. Louis
  23. Richard
  24. Joe
  25. Ralph
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Thelma
  2. Edith
  3. Josephine
  4. Bertha
  5. Emma
  6. Clara
  7. Martha
  8. Ruby
  9. Bessie
  10. Virginia
  11. Esther
  12. Mabel
  13. Lucille
  14. Pearl
  15. Beatrice
  16. Elsie
  17. Viola
  18. Ida
  19. Myrtle
  20. Agnes
  21. Eva
  22. Minnie
  23. Sarah
  24. Nellie
  25. Julia
  26. Pauline
  27. Laura
  28. Alma
  29. Lillie
  30. Katherine
  31. Ella
  32. Mae
  33. Jessie
  34. Willie
  35. Mattie
  36. Bernice
  37. Ann
  38. Marion
  39. Lena
  40. Eleanor
  41. Carrie
  42. Stella
  43. Vera
  44. Blanche
  45. Doris
  46. Hattie
  47. Betty
  48. Leona
  49. Lucy
  50. Anne
  51. Fannie
  52. Kathryn
  53. Jennie
  54. Mamie
  55. Lois
  56. Violet
  57. Beulah
  58. Cora
  59. Opal
  60. Marjorie
  61. Rosa
  62. Ada
  63. Marguerite
  64. Lula
  65. Velma
  66. Jean
  67. Ellen
  68. Dora
  69. Theresa
  70. Maggie
  71. Sadie
  72. Georgia
  73. Charlotte
  74. Daisy
  75. Inez
Boys
  1. Roy
  2. Jack
  3. Howard
  4. Carl
  5. David
  6. Ernest
  7. Earl
  8. Samuel
  9. Francis
  10. Lawrence
  11. Herbert
  12. Charlie
  13. Alfred
  14. Andrew
  15. Kenneth
  16. Anthony
  17. Elmer
  18. Eugene
  19. Michael
  20. Donald
  21. Sam
  22. Theodore
  23. Leonard
  24. Leo
  25. Herman
  26. Lee
  27. Stanley
  28. Peter
  29. Daniel
  30. Floyd
  31. Leroy
  32. Russell
  33. Clifford
  34. Clyde
  35. Lester
  36. Lewis
  37. Jesse
  38. Benjamin
  39. Edwin
  40. Oscar
  41. Chester
  42. Ray
  43. Frederick
  44. Claude
  45. Bernard
  46. Eddie
  47. Cecil
  48. Lloyd
  49. Norman
  50. Melvin
  51. Edgar
  52. Jessie
  53. Ben
  54. Milton
  55. Homer
  56. Tom
  57. Harvey
  58. Martin
  59. Leon
  60. Johnnie
  61. Philip
  62. Marvin
  63. Victor
  64. Alvin
  65. Everett
  66. Luther
  67. Allen
  68. Vernon
  69. Stephen
  70. Leslie
  71. Will
  72. Gerald
  73. Morris
  74. Julius
  75. Virgil
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1908.

Famous people born in 1908

Simone de Beauvoir · French philosopher, social theorist and activistJanuary 9
Edward Teller · Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicistJanuary 15
Ethel Merman · American actress and singerJanuary 16
Lev Landau · Soviet theoretical physicistJanuary 22
Rex Harrison · British actorMarch 5
Anna Magnani · Italian actressMarch 7
Louis L'Amour · American novelist and short story writerMarch 22
David Lean · British filmmaker and editorMarch 25
Abraham Maslow · American psychologistApril 1
Bette Davis · American actressApril 5
Herbert von Karajan · Austrian conductorApril 5
Edward R. Murrow · American broadcast journalistApril 25
Oskar Schindler · German industrialist and Holocaust rescuerApril 28
Eve Arden · American actressApril 30
James Stewart · American actor and military officerMay 20
John Bardeen · American physicist and engineerMay 23
Hannes Alfvén · Swedish electrical engineerMay 30
Mel Blanc · American voice actorMay 30
Don Ameche · American actorMay 31
Willard Van Orman Quine · American philosopher and logicianJune 25
Salvador Allende · 28th president of ChileJune 26
Nelson Rockefeller · Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977July 8
Henri Cartier-Bresson · French photographerAugust 22
Lyndon B. Johnson · President of the United States from 1963 to 1969August 27
Fred MacMurray · American actorAugust 30
William Saroyan · Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writerAugust 31
Richard Wright · American novelist and poetSeptember 4
Cesare Pavese · Italian writer, literary critic, and translatorSeptember 9
Viktor Ambartsumian · Soviet Armenian astrophysicistSeptember 18
Victor Weisskopf · Austrian American theoretical physicistSeptember 19
Mika Waltari · Finnish writerSeptember 19
Saizo Saito · Japanese association football playerSeptember 24
Carole Lombard · American actressOctober 6
John Kenneth Galbraith · Canadian-American economist and diplomatOctober 15
Ilya Frank · Soviet physicistOctober 23
Joseph Rotblat · Polish-born British-naturalised physicistNovember 4
Joseph McCarthy · American politicianNovember 14
Claude Lévi-Strauss · French anthropologist and ethnologistNovember 28
Alfred Hershey · American chemistDecember 4
Olivier Messiaen · French composer, organist and ornithologistDecember 10
Willard Libby · American physical chemistDecember 17

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