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Born in 1920

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

Top 100 baby names of 1920

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Dorothy
  3. Helen
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Mildred
  7. Virginia
  8. Elizabeth
  9. Frances
  10. Anna
  11. Betty
  12. Evelyn
  13. Marie
  14. Doris
  15. Alice
  16. Florence
  17. Irene
  18. Lillian
  19. Louise
  20. Rose
  21. Catherine
  22. Gladys
  23. Martha
  24. Marjorie
  25. Eleanor
Boys
  1. John
  2. William
  3. Robert
  4. James
  5. Charles
  6. George
  7. Joseph
  8. Edward
  9. Frank
  10. Richard
  11. Thomas
  12. Harold
  13. Walter
  14. Paul
  15. Raymond
  16. Donald
  17. Henry
  18. Arthur
  19. Albert
  20. Jack
  21. Harry
  22. Ralph
  23. Kenneth
  24. Howard
  25. David
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Ruby
  2. Edna
  3. Josephine
  4. Lucille
  5. Ethel
  6. Thelma
  7. Edith
  8. Jean
  9. Hazel
  10. Annie
  11. Pauline
  12. Grace
  13. Lois
  14. Esther
  15. Bernice
  16. Beatrice
  17. Gertrude
  18. Marion
  19. Clara
  20. Katherine
  21. Emma
  22. Barbara
  23. Jane
  24. Ann
  25. Sarah
  26. Elsie
  27. Rita
  28. June
  29. Agnes
  30. Julia
  31. Shirley
  32. Bertha
  33. Eva
  34. Viola
  35. Geraldine
  36. Juanita
  37. Pearl
  38. Laura
  39. Vivian
  40. Anne
  41. Ida
  42. Kathryn
  43. Myrtle
  44. Norma
  45. Lorraine
  46. Bessie
  47. Phyllis
  48. Marian
  49. Willie
  50. Vera
  51. Nellie
  52. Violet
  53. Wilma
  54. Charlotte
  55. Alma
  56. Maxine
  57. Stella
  58. Mabel
  59. Jessie
  60. Sylvia
  61. Genevieve
  62. Minnie
  63. Ella
  64. Leona
  65. Lillie
  66. Kathleen
  67. Ellen
  68. Marguerite
  69. Lucy
  70. Nancy
  71. Mattie
  72. Jennie
  73. Lena
  74. Mae
  75. Eileen
Boys
  1. Clarence
  2. Carl
  3. Louis
  4. Willie
  5. Eugene
  6. Earl
  7. Roy
  8. Fred
  9. Francis
  10. Joe
  11. Lawrence
  12. Ernest
  13. Leonard
  14. Warren
  15. Stanley
  16. Herbert
  17. Alfred
  18. Anthony
  19. Samuel
  20. Elmer
  21. Bernard
  22. Norman
  23. Leo
  24. Andrew
  25. Michael
  26. Russell
  27. Daniel
  28. Edwin
  29. Melvin
  30. Chester
  31. Leroy
  32. Peter
  33. Lloyd
  34. Clifford
  35. Frederick
  36. Floyd
  37. Marvin
  38. Theodore
  39. Gerald
  40. Vernon
  41. Herman
  42. Ray
  43. Clyde
  44. Lester
  45. Charlie
  46. Philip
  47. Lewis
  48. Vincent
  49. Milton
  50. Leon
  51. Alvin
  52. Cecil
  53. Martin
  54. Jesse
  55. Glenn
  56. Victor
  57. Lee
  58. Benjamin
  59. Sam
  60. Gordon
  61. Wayne
  62. Harvey
  63. Willard
  64. Edgar
  65. Oscar
  66. Arnold
  67. Claude
  68. Wallace
  69. Allen
  70. Everett
  71. Stephen
  72. Gilbert
  73. Wilbur
  74. Johnnie
  75. Homer
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1920.

Famous people born in 1920

Isaac Asimov · American writer and biochemistJanuary 2
Nobuyuki Kato · Japanese association football playerJanuary 2
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar · 5th Secretary-General of the United NationsJanuary 19
Federico Fellini · Italian filmmakerJanuary 20
DeForest Kelley · American actorJanuary 20
Pran · Indian actorFebruary 12
Michèle Morgan · French actressFebruary 29
Boris Vian · French writer and musicianMarch 10
Nicolaas Bloembergen · Dutch-born American physicistMarch 11
E. Donnall Thomas · American hematologistMarch 15
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman · President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd PrimeMarch 17
Toshiro Mifune · Japanese actorApril 1
Edmond H. Fischer · American biochemistApril 6
Ravi Shankar · Indian sitar playerApril 7
Richard von Weizsäcker · President of Germany from 1984 to 1994April 15
Pope John Paul II · 264th pope of the Catholic ChurchMay 18
Peggy Lee · American singerMay 26
Alberto Sordi · Italian actorJune 15
François Jacob · French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965June 17
Owen Chamberlain · American physicistJuly 10
Yul Brynner · Russian-born American actorJuly 11
Juan Antonio Samaranch · IOC president 1980–2001July 17
Isaac Stern · American musicianJuly 21
Bella Abzug · American politicianJuly 24
Rosalind Franklin · British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographerJuly 25
Henrietta Lacks · American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell lineAugust 1
Helen Thomas · American author and journalistAugust 4
Charles Bukowski · German-American writerAugust 16
Maureen O'Hara · Irish–American actress and singerAugust 17
Shelley Winters · American actressAugust 18
Ray Bradbury · American author and screenwriterAugust 22
Charlie Parker · American jazz saxophonistAugust 29
Richard Farnsworth · American actorSeptember 1
Lawrence Klein · American economistSeptember 14
Mickey Rooney · American actorSeptember 23
Walter Matthau · American actor, comedian and directorOctober 1
Frank Herbert · American writerOctober 8
Mario Puzo · American author, screenwriter, and journalistOctober 15
Montgomery Clift · American actorOctober 17
Timothy Leary · American psychologistOctober 22
Gianni Rodari · Italian writer and journalistOctober 23
K. R. Narayanan · President of India from 1997 to 2002October 27
Baruj Benacerraf · Venezuelan-American immunologistOctober 29
Douglass North · American economist and Nobel laureateNovember 5
Gene Tierney · American actressNovember 19
Paul Celan · French-Romanian poet and translatorNovember 23
Dave Brubeck · American jazz pianist and composerDecember 6
George Porter · British chemistDecember 6
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi · President of Italy from 1999 to 2006December 9
Clarice Lispector · Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalistDecember 10
George Shultz · American politicianDecember 13

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