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Born in 1918

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

Top 100 baby names of 1918

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Dorothy
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Mildred
  7. Virginia
  8. Frances
  9. Elizabeth
  10. Anna
  11. Evelyn
  12. Marie
  13. Alice
  14. Florence
  15. Lillian
  16. Irene
  17. Rose
  18. Louise
  19. Doris
  20. Catherine
  21. Betty
  22. Gladys
  23. Edna
  24. Josephine
  25. Martha
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. James
  4. Robert
  5. Charles
  6. George
  7. Joseph
  8. Edward
  9. Frank
  10. Thomas
  11. Walter
  12. Richard
  13. Harold
  14. Paul
  15. Raymond
  16. Henry
  17. Arthur
  18. Donald
  19. Albert
  20. Harry
  21. Jack
  22. Ralph
  23. Clarence
  24. Louis
  25. Carl
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Eleanor
  2. Ruby
  3. Ethel
  4. Lucille
  5. Edith
  6. Grace
  7. Thelma
  8. Hazel
  9. Marjorie
  10. Pauline
  11. Annie
  12. Jean
  13. Esther
  14. Gertrude
  15. Beatrice
  16. Bernice
  17. Lois
  18. Clara
  19. Ann
  20. Marion
  21. Emma
  22. Agnes
  23. Julia
  24. Elsie
  25. Katherine
  26. Bertha
  27. Sarah
  28. Jane
  29. Anne
  30. Eva
  31. Pearl
  32. Ida
  33. Rita
  34. Viola
  35. Barbara
  36. Bessie
  37. Myrtle
  38. Kathryn
  39. Laura
  40. Nellie
  41. June
  42. Stella
  43. Vera
  44. Lorraine
  45. Willie
  46. Sylvia
  47. Vivian
  48. Alma
  49. Mabel
  50. Jessie
  51. Marian
  52. Geraldine
  53. Charlotte
  54. Leona
  55. Phyllis
  56. Genevieve
  57. Wilma
  58. Violet
  59. Ella
  60. Juanita
  61. Marguerite
  62. Maxine
  63. Minnie
  64. Lillie
  65. Lucy
  66. Jennie
  67. Ellen
  68. Lena
  69. Opal
  70. Mae
  71. Blanche
  72. Shirley
  73. Norma
  74. Kathleen
  75. Mattie
Boys
  1. Howard
  2. Kenneth
  3. David
  4. Willie
  5. Francis
  6. Earl
  7. Roy
  8. Fred
  9. Joe
  10. Eugene
  11. Stanley
  12. Ernest
  13. Lawrence
  14. Anthony
  15. Herbert
  16. Leonard
  17. Alfred
  18. Samuel
  19. Elmer
  20. Michael
  21. Andrew
  22. Bernard
  23. Leo
  24. Norman
  25. Russell
  26. Lloyd
  27. Daniel
  28. Peter
  29. Chester
  30. Edwin
  31. Melvin
  32. Leroy
  33. Woodrow
  34. Frederick
  35. Clifford
  36. Floyd
  37. Lester
  38. Victor
  39. Theodore
  40. Herman
  41. Vernon
  42. Clyde
  43. Marvin
  44. Ray
  45. Charlie
  46. Philip
  47. Gerald
  48. Vincent
  49. Lewis
  50. Sam
  51. Milton
  52. Leon
  53. Jesse
  54. Benjamin
  55. Alvin
  56. Martin
  57. Cecil
  58. Willard
  59. Glenn
  60. Gordon
  61. Lee
  62. Oscar
  63. Harvey
  64. Edgar
  65. Warren
  66. Wayne
  67. Arnold
  68. Everett
  69. Sidney
  70. Claude
  71. Stephen
  72. Wilbur
  73. Allen
  74. Virgil
  75. Homer
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1918.

Famous people born in 1918

Gamal Abdel Nasser · President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970January 15
Gertrude B. Elion · American biochemist and pharmacologistJanuary 23
Philip José Farmer · American writerJanuary 26
John Forsythe · American film and television actorJanuary 29
Julian Schwinger · American theoretical physicistFebruary 12
Robert Wadlow · American who was the tallest recorded person in historyFebruary 22
Theodore Sturgeon · American speculative fiction writerFebruary 26
João Goulart · President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964March 1
Arthur Kornberg · American biochemistMarch 3
James Tobin · American economistMarch 5
Frederick Reines · American physicistMarch 16
Sam Walton · American businessmanMarch 29
Pearl Bailey · American actress and singerMarch 29
Betty Ford · First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977April 8
William Holden · American actorApril 17
Kai Siegbahn · Swedish physicistApril 20
Kakuei Tanaka · Japanese politicianMay 4
Mike Wallace · American journalist, game show host and actorMay 9
Richard Feynman · American theoretical physicistMay 11
Edward B. Lewis · American biologistMay 20
Yasuhiro Nakasone · Japanese politicianMay 27
Edwin G. Krebs · American biochemistJune 6
Ben Johnson · American film actorJune 13
Franco Modigliani · Italian-American economistJune 18
Jerome Karle · American physical chemistJune 18
Alberto Ascari · Italian racing driverJuly 13
Ingmar Bergman · Swedish director and screenwriterJuly 14
Nelson Mandela · President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activistJuly 18
Paul D. Boyer · American biochemistJuly 31
Frederick Sanger · British biochemistAugust 13
Leonard Bernstein · American conductor and composerAugust 25
Katherine Johnson · African-American mathematicianAugust 26
Derek Barton · English organic chemistSeptember 8
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro · 9th President of ItalySeptember 9
Martin Ryle · English radio astronomerSeptember 27
Jerome Robbins · American choreographer and directorOctober 11
Louis Althusser · French Marxist philosopherOctober 16
Rita Hayworth · American actressOctober 17
Teresa Wright · American actressOctober 27
Art Carney · American actor and comedianNovember 4
Billy Graham · American Baptist evangelistNovember 7
Spiro Agnew · Vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973November 9
Madeleine L'Engle · American writerNovember 29
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Russian writer, publicist, poet and politicianDecember 11
Kurt Waldheim · Austrian politician and diplomatDecember 21
Helmut Schmidt · Chancellor of West GermanyDecember 23
Anwar Sadat · President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981December 25

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