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Born in 1917

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

Top 100 baby names of 1917

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Dorothy
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Mildred
  7. Anna
  8. Elizabeth
  9. Frances
  10. Virginia
  11. Evelyn
  12. Marie
  13. Alice
  14. Florence
  15. Lillian
  16. Rose
  17. Irene
  18. Catherine
  19. Louise
  20. Edna
  21. Josephine
  22. Martha
  23. Gladys
  24. Ethel
  25. Doris
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. Robert
  5. Joseph
  6. George
  7. Charles
  8. Edward
  9. Frank
  10. Thomas
  11. Walter
  12. Harold
  13. Paul
  14. Richard
  15. Henry
  16. Raymond
  17. Arthur
  18. Albert
  19. Harry
  20. Donald
  21. Ralph
  22. Jack
  23. Louis
  24. Carl
  25. Clarence
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Eleanor
  2. Ruby
  3. Edith
  4. Lucille
  5. Grace
  6. Hazel
  7. Thelma
  8. Pauline
  9. Betty
  10. Annie
  11. Marjorie
  12. Gertrude
  13. Esther
  14. Beatrice
  15. Jean
  16. Clara
  17. Bernice
  18. Lois
  19. Ann
  20. Marion
  21. Emma
  22. Julia
  23. Agnes
  24. Katherine
  25. Elsie
  26. Bertha
  27. Sarah
  28. Anne
  29. Eva
  30. Jane
  31. Ida
  32. Pearl
  33. Myrtle
  34. Viola
  35. Kathryn
  36. Bessie
  37. Stella
  38. Rita
  39. Nellie
  40. Laura
  41. Vera
  42. Barbara
  43. Mabel
  44. Sylvia
  45. Jessie
  46. Alma
  47. Willie
  48. June
  49. Marian
  50. Minnie
  51. Charlotte
  52. Genevieve
  53. Marguerite
  54. Vivian
  55. Leona
  56. Jennie
  57. Wilma
  58. Ella
  59. Violet
  60. Lena
  61. Lillie
  62. Juanita
  63. Lucy
  64. Geraldine
  65. Ellen
  66. Blanche
  67. Phyllis
  68. Maxine
  69. Mattie
  70. Opal
  71. Mae
  72. Theresa
  73. Nancy
  74. Velma
  75. Sophie
Boys
  1. Howard
  2. Kenneth
  3. David
  4. Fred
  5. Francis
  6. Willie
  7. Earl
  8. Roy
  9. Stanley
  10. Joe
  11. Lawrence
  12. Ernest
  13. Anthony
  14. Eugene
  15. Herbert
  16. Leonard
  17. Samuel
  18. Alfred
  19. Michael
  20. Elmer
  21. Norman
  22. Leo
  23. Andrew
  24. Bernard
  25. Peter
  26. Frederick
  27. Russell
  28. Lloyd
  29. Daniel
  30. Edwin
  31. Chester
  32. Melvin
  33. Herman
  34. Clifford
  35. Leroy
  36. Lester
  37. Floyd
  38. Theodore
  39. Clyde
  40. Vincent
  41. Philip
  42. Charlie
  43. Marvin
  44. Gerald
  45. Lewis
  46. Vernon
  47. Sam
  48. Woodrow
  49. Ray
  50. Milton
  51. Benjamin
  52. Martin
  53. Victor
  54. Jesse
  55. Willard
  56. Alvin
  57. Leon
  58. Cecil
  59. Gordon
  60. Lee
  61. Glenn
  62. Oscar
  63. Edgar
  64. Stephen
  65. Harvey
  66. Arnold
  67. Wilbur
  68. Warren
  69. Everett
  70. Sidney
  71. Wayne
  72. Alexander
  73. Claude
  74. Morris
  75. Allen
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1917.

Famous people born in 1917

Jane Wyman · American actressJanuary 5
Ernest Borgnine · American actorJanuary 24
Ilya Prigogine · Russian-Belgian physical chemistJanuary 25
Yahya Khan · Former Pakistani presidentFebruary 4
Sidney Sheldon · American writerFebruary 11
Herbert A. Hauptman · American mathematicianFebruary 14
Carson McCullers · American writerFebruary 19
Anthony Burgess · English writer and composerFebruary 25
Robert Bloch · American fiction writerApril 5
Robert Burns Woodward · American chemistApril 10
I. M. Pei · Chinese-American architectApril 26
Celeste Holm · American actressApril 29
Edward Norton Lorenz · American mathematician and meteorologistMay 23
John F. Kennedy · President of the United States from 1961 to 1963May 29
William Standish Knowles · American chemistJune 1
Dean Martin · American singer, actor, comedian and film producerJune 7
Gwendolyn Brooks · American writerJune 7
Eric Hobsbawm · British academic historian and Marxist historiographerJune 9
John B. Fenn · American analytical chemistJune 15
Katharine Graham · American publisher, editor and authorJune 16
Susan Hayward · American actressJune 30
Lena Horne · American singer, actress, dancer and activistJune 30
Phyllis Diller · American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artistJuly 17
Kenan Evren · President of TurkeyJuly 17
Bourvil · French actor and singerJuly 27
Robert Mitchum · American actorAugust 6
Leonid Hurwicz · Polish-American economist and mathematicianAugust 21
John Lee Hooker · American blues musicianAugust 22
Mel Ferrer · American actor, director and producerAugust 25
Jack Kirby · American comic book artistAugust 28
John Cornforth · Australian-British chemistSeptember 7
Ferdinand Marcos · President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986September 11
Christian de Duve · Belgian biochemist, cytologistOctober 2
June Allyson · American actressOctober 7
Thelonious Monk · American jazz pianist and composerOctober 10
Marsha Hunt · American actressOctober 17
Dizzy Gillespie · American jazz trumpeterOctober 21
Joan Fontaine · British actressOctober 22
Park Chung Hee · 3rd President of the Republic of KoreaNovember 14
Indira Gandhi · Prime Minister of IndiaNovember 19
Robert Byrd · American politicianNovember 20
James Rainwater · American physicistDecember 9
Arthur C. Clarke · British science fiction writer, inventor, and futuristDecember 16
David Bohm · American theoretical physicistDecember 20
Heinrich Böll · German writerDecember 21

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