Born in 1919
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1919
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Dorothy
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Mildred
- Virginia
- Elizabeth
- Frances
- Anna
- Evelyn
- Marie
- Alice
- Florence
- Betty
- Irene
- Lillian
- Doris
- Rose
- Louise
- Gladys
- Edna
- Catherine
- Ruby
- Martha
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- Robert
- Charles
- George
- Joseph
- Edward
- Frank
- Thomas
- Walter
- Richard
- Harold
- Raymond
- Paul
- Henry
- Donald
- Albert
- Arthur
- Harry
- Jack
- Ralph
- Willie
- Howard
- Clarence
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Josephine
- Lucille
- Ethel
- Edith
- Eleanor
- Thelma
- Hazel
- Marjorie
- Grace
- Annie
- Pauline
- Jean
- Esther
- Gertrude
- Lois
- Beatrice
- Bernice
- Clara
- Marion
- Emma
- Sarah
- Elsie
- Julia
- Ann
- Agnes
- Katherine
- Bertha
- Jane
- Rita
- Eva
- Pearl
- Ida
- Viola
- Bessie
- Barbara
- Willie
- Lorraine
- Anne
- June
- Vera
- Kathryn
- Myrtle
- Geraldine
- Nellie
- Stella
- Laura
- Vivian
- Juanita
- Violet
- Jessie
- Alma
- Sylvia
- Mabel
- Charlotte
- Minnie
- Lillie
- Marian
- Norma
- Phyllis
- Maxine
- Wilma
- Ella
- Genevieve
- Shirley
- Leona
- Lucy
- Ellen
- Jennie
- Lena
- Mattie
- Marguerite
- Blanche
- Opal
- Mae
- Nancy
Boys
- Kenneth
- David
- Louis
- Carl
- Fred
- Earl
- Roy
- Eugene
- Francis
- Joe
- Ernest
- Stanley
- Lawrence
- Leonard
- Herbert
- Anthony
- Alfred
- Samuel
- Elmer
- Bernard
- Michael
- Andrew
- Norman
- Leo
- Russell
- Daniel
- Edwin
- Chester
- Theodore
- Leroy
- Melvin
- Peter
- Lloyd
- Floyd
- Clifford
- Herman
- Lester
- Marvin
- Frederick
- Vernon
- Charlie
- Clyde
- Victor
- Ray
- Gerald
- Philip
- Vincent
- Milton
- Lewis
- Sam
- Alvin
- Jesse
- Cecil
- Benjamin
- Leon
- Martin
- Lee
- Warren
- Glenn
- Harvey
- Gordon
- Willard
- Oscar
- Edgar
- Wayne
- Woodrow
- Claude
- Everett
- Arnold
- Johnnie
- Sidney
- Stephen
- Wilbur
- Eddie
- 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