Born in 1909
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1909
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Dorothy
- Anna
- Elizabeth
- Mildred
- Marie
- Alice
- Florence
- Frances
- Ethel
- Lillian
- Gladys
- Edna
- Rose
- Evelyn
- Louise
- Irene
- Grace
- Annie
- Catherine
- Hazel
- Gertrude
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Robert
- Joseph
- Charles
- Frank
- Edward
- Thomas
- Henry
- Walter
- Willie
- Harry
- Albert
- Harold
- Paul
- Arthur
- Clarence
- Raymond
- Richard
- Fred
- Joe
- Louis
- Carl
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Thelma
- Ruby
- Martha
- Bertha
- Virginia
- Josephine
- Clara
- Edith
- Emma
- Bessie
- Lucille
- Esther
- Beatrice
- Elsie
- Pearl
- Mabel
- Agnes
- Myrtle
- Ida
- Julia
- Viola
- Eva
- Pauline
- Sarah
- Minnie
- Nellie
- Lillie
- Katherine
- Willie
- Laura
- Ann
- Eleanor
- Marion
- Mattie
- Ella
- Alma
- Bernice
- Jessie
- Doris
- Lena
- Carrie
- Vera
- Mae
- Blanche
- Stella
- Lucy
- Leona
- Lois
- Kathryn
- Hattie
- Anne
- Betty
- Marjorie
- Fannie
- Beulah
- Marguerite
- Opal
- Jennie
- Mamie
- Cora
- Ellen
- Rosa
- Ada
- Violet
- Jean
- Lula
- Velma
- Sylvia
- Charlotte
- Dora
- Inez
- Georgia
- Maggie
- Genevieve
- Hilda
Boys
- Howard
- Jack
- Roy
- David
- Ralph
- Earl
- Samuel
- Francis
- Ernest
- Lawrence
- Charlie
- Herbert
- Andrew
- Alfred
- Anthony
- Kenneth
- Donald
- Eugene
- Sam
- Elmer
- Leonard
- Michael
- Herman
- Leo
- Stanley
- Theodore
- Lee
- Floyd
- Daniel
- Leroy
- Peter
- Clifford
- Russell
- Jesse
- Clyde
- Lester
- Edwin
- Benjamin
- Frederick
- Lewis
- Chester
- Ray
- Bernard
- Eddie
- Oscar
- Melvin
- Cecil
- Jessie
- Claude
- Norman
- Lloyd
- Johnnie
- Philip
- Martin
- Leon
- Milton
- Alvin
- Harvey
- Ben
- Marvin
- Edgar
- Luther
- Tom
- Victor
- Everett
- Stephen
- Homer
- Allen
- Morris
- Gerald
- Leslie
- Vernon
- Julius
- Otis
- Will
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1909.
Famous people born in 1909
Stepan Bandera · Ukrainian nationalist leaderJanuary 1
Dana Andrews · American actorJanuary 1
U Thant · UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971January 22
Simone Weil · French philosopher, writer, and social activistFebruary 3
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · American film director, screenwriter, and producerFebruary 11
Stanisław Jerzy Lec · Polish writerMarch 6
John Fante · –1983April 8
Stanisław Ulam · Polish-American mathematicianApril 13
Eudora Welty · American short story writer, novelist and photographerApril 13
Rita Levi-Montalcini · Italian neurologistApril 22
Margaret Sullavan · American actressMay 16
Nicholas Winton · British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39May 19
Benny Goodman · American jazz clarinetist and bandleaderMay 30
Isaiah Berlin · Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theoristJune 6
Virginia Apgar · American obstetrical anesthesiologistJune 7
Burl Ives · American musicianJune 14
Errol Flynn · Australian actorJune 20
Leo Fender · American inventor and founder of the Fender companyAugust 10
Elia Kazan · American director and actorSeptember 7
Kwame Nkrumah · Ghanaian politicianSeptember 21
Art Tatum · American jazz pianistOctober 13
Francis Bacon · Irish-born British figurative painterOctober 28
Robert Ryan · American actorNovember 11
Peter Drucker · American business consultantNovember 19
James Agee · American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film criticNovember 27