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Born in 1912

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

Top 100 baby names of 1912

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Dorothy
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Mildred
  7. Anna
  8. Elizabeth
  9. Frances
  10. Marie
  11. Alice
  12. Florence
  13. Evelyn
  14. Lillian
  15. Rose
  16. Edna
  17. Louise
  18. Ethel
  19. Gladys
  20. Virginia
  21. Catherine
  22. Irene
  23. Ruby
  24. Grace
  25. Hazel
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. Robert
  5. Joseph
  6. George
  7. Charles
  8. Edward
  9. Frank
  10. Thomas
  11. Walter
  12. Henry
  13. Harold
  14. Paul
  15. Arthur
  16. Harry
  17. Albert
  18. Raymond
  19. Richard
  20. Louis
  21. Clarence
  22. Willie
  23. Ralph
  24. Carl
  25. Howard
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Thelma
  2. Annie
  3. Josephine
  4. Martha
  5. Gertrude
  6. Edith
  7. Lucille
  8. Esther
  9. Clara
  10. Emma
  11. Bertha
  12. Beatrice
  13. Pauline
  14. Eleanor
  15. Agnes
  16. Sarah
  17. Elsie
  18. Bessie
  19. Julia
  20. Ida
  21. Mabel
  22. Ann
  23. Doris
  24. Eva
  25. Myrtle
  26. Bernice
  27. Viola
  28. Katherine
  29. Pearl
  30. Marion
  31. Marjorie
  32. Laura
  33. Anne
  34. Nellie
  35. Minnie
  36. Willie
  37. Alma
  38. Lois
  39. Jean
  40. Jessie
  41. Betty
  42. Lillie
  43. Vera
  44. Ella
  45. Mattie
  46. Kathryn
  47. Lena
  48. Stella
  49. Mae
  50. Blanche
  51. Leona
  52. Sylvia
  53. Lucy
  54. Marguerite
  55. Beulah
  56. Jennie
  57. Carrie
  58. Violet
  59. Vivian
  60. Opal
  61. Ellen
  62. Fannie
  63. Velma
  64. Jane
  65. Hattie
  66. Charlotte
  67. Genevieve
  68. Marian
  69. Rosa
  70. Mamie
  71. Ada
  72. Theresa
  73. Cora
  74. Wilma
  75. Inez
Boys
  1. Fred
  2. Donald
  3. Jack
  4. David
  5. Samuel
  6. Roy
  7. Ernest
  8. Kenneth
  9. Earl
  10. Francis
  11. Joe
  12. Anthony
  13. Lawrence
  14. Herbert
  15. Alfred
  16. Eugene
  17. Michael
  18. Stanley
  19. Andrew
  20. Leonard
  21. Woodrow
  22. Elmer
  23. Peter
  24. Leo
  25. Herman
  26. Frederick
  27. Theodore
  28. Daniel
  29. Edwin
  30. Chester
  31. Russell
  32. Charlie
  33. Lester
  34. Floyd
  35. Bernard
  36. Norman
  37. Clifford
  38. Sam
  39. Milton
  40. Clyde
  41. Leroy
  42. Benjamin
  43. Lewis
  44. Philip
  45. Lloyd
  46. Melvin
  47. Vincent
  48. Oscar
  49. Jesse
  50. Martin
  51. Cecil
  52. Ray
  53. Lee
  54. Leon
  55. Sidney
  56. Victor
  57. Morris
  58. Marvin
  59. Glenn
  60. Edgar
  61. Alvin
  62. Gerald
  63. Stephen
  64. Claude
  65. Vernon
  66. Harvey
  67. Wilbur
  68. Gordon
  69. Irving
  70. Maurice
  71. Everett
  72. Alexander
  73. Homer
  74. Arnold
  75. Julius
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1912.

Famous people born in 1912

José Ferrer · American actor and directorJanuary 8
Konrad Emil Bloch · German American biochemistJanuary 21
Jackson Pollock · American painterJanuary 28
Barbara W. Tuchman · American historian and authorJanuary 30
Eva Braun · Photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf HitlerFebruary 6
Lawrence Durrell · British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writerFebruary 27
Pat Nixon · First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974March 16
Wernher von Braun · German and later American aerospace engineer and space architectMarch 23
James Callaghan · Former prime minister of the United KingdomMarch 27
Robert Doisneau · French photographerApril 14
Kim Il Sung · Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994April 15
Glenn T. Seaborg · American chemistApril 19
Perry Como · American singer, actor, television personalityMay 18
Richard Brooks · American screenwriter, film director and producerMay 18
Herbert C. Brown · American chemistMay 22
János Kádár · Former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' PartyMay 26
John Cheever · American novelist and short story writerMay 27
Patrick White · English-born Australian writerMay 28
Julius Axelrod · American biochemistMay 30
Chien-Shiung Wu · Chinese-American physicistMay 31
Alan Turing · English computer scientistJune 23
Woody Guthrie · American singer-songwriterJuly 14
Milton Friedman · American economist and statisticianJuly 31
Raoul Wallenberg · Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarianAugust 4
Jorge Amado · Brazilian writerAugust 10
Salvador Luria · Italian American microbiologistAugust 13
Julia Child · American chefAugust 15
Gene Kelly · American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographerAugust 23
Erich Honecker · Former leader of East GermanyAugust 25
Edward Mills Purcell · American physicistAugust 30
Michelangelo Antonioni · Italian film director and screenwriterSeptember 29
Pope John Paul I · Pope of the Catholic Church in 1978October 17
Don Siegel · American film directorOctober 26
Otto von Habsburg · Head of the House of Habsburg and German politicianNovember 20
Lady Bird Johnson · First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969December 22

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