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Born in 1921

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

Top 100 baby names of 1921

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Dorothy
  3. Helen
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Virginia
  7. Mildred
  8. Betty
  9. Frances
  10. Elizabeth
  11. Anna
  12. Evelyn
  13. Doris
  14. Marie
  15. Alice
  16. Marjorie
  17. Florence
  18. Irene
  19. Lillian
  20. Rose
  21. Martha
  22. Louise
  23. Catherine
  24. Gladys
  25. Jean
Boys
  1. John
  2. Robert
  3. William
  4. James
  5. Charles
  6. George
  7. Joseph
  8. Edward
  9. Frank
  10. Richard
  11. Thomas
  12. Harold
  13. Donald
  14. Paul
  15. Walter
  16. Raymond
  17. Henry
  18. Jack
  19. Arthur
  20. Albert
  21. Harry
  22. Kenneth
  23. Ralph
  24. Warren
  25. David
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Ruby
  2. Edna
  3. Josephine
  4. Eleanor
  5. Thelma
  6. Lucille
  7. Ethel
  8. Edith
  9. Hazel
  10. Grace
  11. Annie
  12. Pauline
  13. Lois
  14. Bernice
  15. Barbara
  16. Beatrice
  17. Esther
  18. Marion
  19. Shirley
  20. Clara
  21. Gertrude
  22. Jane
  23. Rita
  24. Katherine
  25. June
  26. Norma
  27. Emma
  28. Ann
  29. Sarah
  30. Elsie
  31. Agnes
  32. Juanita
  33. Julia
  34. Bertha
  35. Phyllis
  36. Lorraine
  37. Geraldine
  38. Eva
  39. Kathryn
  40. Pearl
  41. Viola
  42. Ida
  43. Vivian
  44. Marian
  45. Anne
  46. Laura
  47. Wilma
  48. Myrtle
  49. Willie
  50. Bessie
  51. Vera
  52. Maxine
  53. Alma
  54. Charlotte
  55. Nellie
  56. Violet
  57. Audrey
  58. Kathleen
  59. Patricia
  60. Mabel
  61. Stella
  62. Nancy
  63. Sylvia
  64. Ella
  65. Genevieve
  66. Jessie
  67. Leona
  68. Lucy
  69. Lillie
  70. Ellen
  71. Minnie
  72. Elaine
  73. Marguerite
  74. Jennie
  75. Eileen
Boys
  1. Eugene
  2. Howard
  3. Clarence
  4. Louis
  5. Carl
  6. Earl
  7. Roy
  8. Fred
  9. Willie
  10. Francis
  11. Joe
  12. Lawrence
  13. Ernest
  14. Leonard
  15. Anthony
  16. Stanley
  17. Herbert
  18. Alfred
  19. Samuel
  20. Bernard
  21. Norman
  22. Michael
  23. Elmer
  24. Daniel
  25. Leo
  26. Andrew
  27. Russell
  28. Melvin
  29. Edwin
  30. Leroy
  31. Chester
  32. Peter
  33. Lloyd
  34. Marvin
  35. Gerald
  36. Frederick
  37. Clifford
  38. Floyd
  39. Herman
  40. Theodore
  41. Lester
  42. Ray
  43. Vernon
  44. Clyde
  45. Vincent
  46. Lewis
  47. Philip
  48. Alvin
  49. Leon
  50. Milton
  51. Charlie
  52. Jesse
  53. Martin
  54. Cecil
  55. Glenn
  56. Wayne
  57. Benjamin
  58. Victor
  59. Gordon
  60. Sam
  61. Lee
  62. Harvey
  63. Wallace
  64. Willard
  65. Edgar
  66. Arnold
  67. Oscar
  68. Dale
  69. Allen
  70. Everett
  71. Claude
  72. Stephen
  73. Virgil
  74. Roger
  75. Wilbur
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1921.

Famous people born in 1921

Ismail al-Faruqi · Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholarJanuary 1
Friedrich Dürrenmatt · Swiss author and dramatistJanuary 5
Murray Bookchin · American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopherJanuary 14
Yoichiro Nambu · American theoretical physicistJanuary 18
Patricia Highsmith · American novelist and short story writerJanuary 19
Marija Gimbutas · Lithuanian-American archaeologistJanuary 23
Donna Reed · American film and television actressJanuary 27
Carol Channing · American actressJanuary 31
Mario Lanza · American tenor and actorJanuary 31
Betty Friedan · American feminist writer and activistFebruary 4
Lotfi A. Zadeh · American electrical engineer and computer scientistFebruary 4
Lana Turner · American actressFebruary 8
Hua Guofeng · 2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist PartyFebruary 16
John Rawls · American political philosopherFebruary 21
Jean-Bédel Bokassa · 2nd president and emperor of the Central African RepublicFebruary 22
Abe Vigoda · American actorFebruary 24
Simone Signoret · French actressMarch 25
Mary Jackson · American mathematician and aerospace engineerApril 9
Thomas Schelling · American economistApril 14
Peter Ustinov · British actor, writer and directorApril 16
Satyajit Ray · Indian filmmaker and writerMay 2
Sugar Ray Robinson · American boxerMay 3
Arthur Leonard Schawlow · American physicistMay 5
Andrei Sakharov · Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activistMay 21
Jack Steinberger · German-American physicist, Nobel laureateMay 25
Suharto · 2nd President of Indonesia and Acting President of IndonesiaJune 8
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh · Consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021June 10
Jane Russell · American actressJune 21
Judy Holliday · American actress, comedian and singerJune 21
P. V. Narasimha Rao · Prime Minister of IndiaJune 28
Robert Bruce Merrifield · American biochemistJuly 15
John Glenn · American astronaut and politicianJuly 18
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow · American medical physicistJuly 19
Esther Williams · American swimmer, actress and singerAugust 8
Alex Haley · American biographer, screenwriter, and novelistAugust 11
Gene Roddenberry · American television screenwriter and producerAugust 19
Kenneth Arrow · American economistAugust 23
Stanisław Lem · Polish science fiction authorSeptember 12
Deborah Kerr · British actressSeptember 30
James Whitmore · American actorOctober 1
James Clavell · American novelistOctober 10
Yves Montand · French-Italian actor and singerOctober 13
Gunnar Nordahl · Swedish association football playerOctober 19
Michael I of Romania · Last king of RomaniaOctober 25
Charles Bronson · American actorNovember 3
Rodney Dangerfield · American stand-up comedianNovember 22
Alexander Dubček · First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist PartyNovember 27
George Roy Hill · American film directorDecember 20

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