Born in 1919

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

Top 100 baby names of 1919

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Helen
  3. Dorothy
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Mildred
  7. Virginia
  8. Elizabeth
  9. Frances
  10. Anna
  11. Evelyn
  12. Marie
  13. Alice
  14. Florence
  15. Betty
  16. Irene
  17. Lillian
  18. Doris
  19. Rose
  20. Louise
  21. Gladys
  22. Edna
  23. Catherine
  24. Ruby
  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. Raymond
  15. Paul
  16. Henry
  17. Donald
  18. Albert
  19. Arthur
  20. Harry
  21. Jack
  22. Ralph
  23. Willie
  24. Howard
  25. Clarence
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Josephine
  2. Lucille
  3. Ethel
  4. Edith
  5. Eleanor
  6. Thelma
  7. Hazel
  8. Marjorie
  9. Grace
  10. Annie
  11. Pauline
  12. Jean
  13. Esther
  14. Gertrude
  15. Lois
  16. Beatrice
  17. Bernice
  18. Clara
  19. Marion
  20. Emma
  21. Sarah
  22. Elsie
  23. Julia
  24. Ann
  25. Agnes
  26. Katherine
  27. Bertha
  28. Jane
  29. Rita
  30. Eva
  31. Pearl
  32. Ida
  33. Viola
  34. Bessie
  35. Barbara
  36. Willie
  37. Lorraine
  38. Anne
  39. June
  40. Vera
  41. Kathryn
  42. Myrtle
  43. Geraldine
  44. Nellie
  45. Stella
  46. Laura
  47. Vivian
  48. Juanita
  49. Violet
  50. Jessie
  51. Alma
  52. Sylvia
  53. Mabel
  54. Charlotte
  55. Minnie
  56. Lillie
  57. Marian
  58. Norma
  59. Phyllis
  60. Maxine
  61. Wilma
  62. Ella
  63. Genevieve
  64. Shirley
  65. Leona
  66. Lucy
  67. Ellen
  68. Jennie
  69. Lena
  70. Mattie
  71. Marguerite
  72. Blanche
  73. Opal
  74. Mae
  75. Nancy
Boys
  1. Kenneth
  2. David
  3. Louis
  4. Carl
  5. Fred
  6. Earl
  7. Roy
  8. Eugene
  9. Francis
  10. Joe
  11. Ernest
  12. Stanley
  13. Lawrence
  14. Leonard
  15. Herbert
  16. Anthony
  17. Alfred
  18. Samuel
  19. Elmer
  20. Bernard
  21. Michael
  22. Andrew
  23. Norman
  24. Leo
  25. Russell
  26. Daniel
  27. Edwin
  28. Chester
  29. Theodore
  30. Leroy
  31. Melvin
  32. Peter
  33. Lloyd
  34. Floyd
  35. Clifford
  36. Herman
  37. Lester
  38. Marvin
  39. Frederick
  40. Vernon
  41. Charlie
  42. Clyde
  43. Victor
  44. Ray
  45. Gerald
  46. Philip
  47. Vincent
  48. Milton
  49. Lewis
  50. Sam
  51. Alvin
  52. Jesse
  53. Cecil
  54. Benjamin
  55. Leon
  56. Martin
  57. Lee
  58. Warren
  59. Glenn
  60. Harvey
  61. Gordon
  62. Willard
  63. Oscar
  64. Edgar
  65. Wayne
  66. Woodrow
  67. Claude
  68. Everett
  69. Arnold
  70. Johnnie
  71. Sidney
  72. Stephen
  73. Wilbur
  74. Eddie
  75. Morris
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1919.

Famous people born in 1919

J. D. Salinger · American authorJanuary 1
Giulio Andreotti · Italian politician and statesmanJanuary 14
Jackie Robinson · American baseball playerJanuary 31
Red Buttons · American comedian and actorFebruary 5
Desmond Doss · American solder, pacifist, and combat medicFebruary 7
Eva Gabor · Hungarian-American actress and socialiteFebruary 11
Jack Palance · American actorFebruary 18
Jennifer Jones · American actressMarch 2
Nat King Cole · American singer and jazz pianistMarch 17
Eileen Heckart · American actressMarch 29
Donald J. Cram · American chemistApril 22
Pete Seeger · American folk singerMay 3
Eva Perón · Argentine actress and politicianMay 7
Leon Festinger · American psychologistMay 8
Daniel Bell · American sociologistMay 10
Liberace · American pianistMay 16
Margot Fonteyn · British ballerinaMay 18
Walter Scheel · President of West GermanyJuly 8
Iris Murdoch · Irish-born British writer and philosopherJuly 15
Edmund Hillary · New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropistJuly 20
Margaret Burbidge · British-born American astronomerAugust 12
James M. Buchanan · American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for EconomicsOctober 3
Donald Pleasence · British actorOctober 5
Siad Barre · Head of State of SomaliaOctober 6
Zhao Ziyang · Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist PartyOctober 17
Pierre Trudeau · Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984October 18
Doris Lessing · British novelistOctober 22
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi · Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979October 26
Martin Balsam · American actorNovember 4
Mikhail Kalashnikov · Soviet and Russian small arms designerNovember 10
Frederik Pohl · American science fiction writer and editorNovember 26
William Lipscomb · Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemistDecember 9

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