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Born in 1911

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

Top 100 baby names of 1911

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Margaret
  4. Dorothy
  5. Ruth
  6. Anna
  7. Elizabeth
  8. Mildred
  9. Marie
  10. Frances
  11. Alice
  12. Florence
  13. Lillian
  14. Rose
  15. Ethel
  16. Evelyn
  17. Edna
  18. Gladys
  19. Louise
  20. Catherine
  21. Irene
  22. Ruby
  23. Grace
  24. Annie
  25. Hazel
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. Harry
  14. Willie
  15. Albert
  16. Harold
  17. Paul
  18. Arthur
  19. Raymond
  20. Richard
  21. Louis
  22. Fred
  23. Clarence
  24. Ralph
  25. Jack
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Virginia
  2. Thelma
  3. Martha
  4. Josephine
  5. Gertrude
  6. Edith
  7. Lucille
  8. Clara
  9. Esther
  10. Emma
  11. Bertha
  12. Beatrice
  13. Pauline
  14. Agnes
  15. Bessie
  16. Elsie
  17. Sarah
  18. Mabel
  19. Julia
  20. Ida
  21. Eva
  22. Viola
  23. Pearl
  24. Eleanor
  25. Myrtle
  26. Bernice
  27. Minnie
  28. Ann
  29. Nellie
  30. Katherine
  31. Doris
  32. Laura
  33. Marion
  34. Marjorie
  35. Lillie
  36. Willie
  37. Alma
  38. Ella
  39. Anne
  40. Mattie
  41. Jessie
  42. Vera
  43. Lois
  44. Betty
  45. Lena
  46. Mae
  47. Stella
  48. Kathryn
  49. Jean
  50. Blanche
  51. Leona
  52. Lucy
  53. Carrie
  54. Beulah
  55. Vivian
  56. Opal
  57. Sylvia
  58. Violet
  59. Ellen
  60. Jennie
  61. Hattie
  62. Marguerite
  63. Fannie
  64. Mamie
  65. Velma
  66. Cora
  67. Rosa
  68. Genevieve
  69. Lula
  70. Charlotte
  71. Georgia
  72. Ada
  73. Jane
  74. Inez
  75. Theresa
Boys
  1. Carl
  2. David
  3. Howard
  4. Joe
  5. Samuel
  6. Roy
  7. Ernest
  8. Francis
  9. Earl
  10. Anthony
  11. Donald
  12. Lawrence
  13. Michael
  14. Alfred
  15. Kenneth
  16. Herbert
  17. Andrew
  18. Eugene
  19. Stanley
  20. Charlie
  21. Leonard
  22. Sam
  23. Elmer
  24. Herman
  25. Peter
  26. Leo
  27. Frederick
  28. Daniel
  29. Bernard
  30. Russell
  31. Theodore
  32. Floyd
  33. Chester
  34. Leroy
  35. Edwin
  36. Clyde
  37. Clifford
  38. Norman
  39. Benjamin
  40. Lester
  41. Lewis
  42. Lee
  43. Oscar
  44. Philip
  45. Milton
  46. Ray
  47. Jesse
  48. Melvin
  49. Lloyd
  50. Martin
  51. Cecil
  52. Leon
  53. Eddie
  54. Jessie
  55. Vincent
  56. Victor
  57. Marvin
  58. Edgar
  59. Stephen
  60. Morris
  61. Ben
  62. Claude
  63. Gerald
  64. Alvin
  65. Johnnie
  66. Harvey
  67. Sidney
  68. Irving
  69. Alexander
  70. Homer
  71. Vernon
  72. Gordon
  73. Allen
  74. Maurice
  75. Luther
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1911.

Famous people born in 1911

George Stigler · American economistJanuary 17
Bruno Kreisky · Austrian diplomat and chancellorJanuary 22
Polykarp Kusch · German-American physicistJanuary 26
Ronald Reagan · 40th President of the United StatesFebruary 6
Elizabeth Bishop · American poetFebruary 8
Khalid of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi ArabiaFebruary 13
Jean Harlow · American film actressMarch 3
L. Ron Hubbard · American writer and Scientology founderMarch 13
Joseph Barbera · American animator and cartoonistMarch 24
Feodor Lynen · German biochemist, Nobel LaureateApril 6
Melvin Calvin · American biochemistApril 8
Emil Cioran · Romanian-French philosopher and essayistApril 8
Robert Johnson · American blues singer and guitaristMay 8
Max Frisch · Swiss playwrighter and novelistMay 15
Maureen O'Sullivan · Irish-American actressMay 17
Vincent Price · American actorMay 27
Hubert Humphrey · Vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969May 27
Maurice Allais · French economistMay 31
Milovan Djilas · Yugoslav politician, theorist and authorJune 12
Luis Walter Alvarez · American experimental physicist, inventor, and professorJune 13
Juan Manuel Fangio · Argentine racing driverJune 24
Ernesto Sabato · Argentine writer, painter and physicistJune 24
William Howard Stein · American biochemistJune 25
Babe Didrikson Zaharias · American golfer and athleteJune 26
Bernard Herrmann · American composer and conductorJune 29
Georges Pompidou · President of France from 1969 to 1974July 5
Gian Carlo Menotti · Italian-American composer and librettistJuly 7
Ginger Rogers · American actress and dancerJuly 16
Marshall McLuhan · Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholarJuly 21
Robert Taylor · American actorAugust 5
Lucille Ball · American actressAugust 6
Nicholas Ray · American film directorAugust 7
William Alfred Fowler · American nuclear physicistAugust 9
Mikhail Botvinnik · Soviet chess playerAugust 17
Võ Nguyên Giáp · Vietnamese general and communist politicianAugust 25
Todor Zhivkov · Former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist PartySeptember 7
William Golding · British novelistSeptember 19
Konstantin Chernenko · General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSeptember 24
Lê Đức Thọ · Vietnamese diplomatOctober 14
Mahalia Jackson · American gospel singerOctober 26
Odysseas Elytis · Greek poet and art criticNovember 2
Samuel Reshevsky · American chess playerNovember 26
Broderick Crawford · American actorDecember 9
Naguib Mahfouz · Egyptian writerDecember 11
Trygve Haavelmo · Norwegian economist and econometricianDecember 13
Niels Kaj Jerne · Danish immunologistDecember 23
Louise Bourgeois · French-American artistDecember 25

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