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Born in 1922

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

Top 100 baby names of 1922

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Dorothy
  3. Helen
  4. Margaret
  5. Ruth
  6. Betty
  7. Virginia
  8. Mildred
  9. Elizabeth
  10. Frances
  11. Doris
  12. Anna
  13. Evelyn
  14. Marie
  15. Alice
  16. Marjorie
  17. Irene
  18. Florence
  19. Lillian
  20. Jean
  21. Martha
  22. Louise
  23. Rose
  24. Catherine
  25. Gladys
Boys
  1. John
  2. Robert
  3. William
  4. James
  5. Charles
  6. George
  7. Joseph
  8. Edward
  9. Richard
  10. Frank
  11. Thomas
  12. Donald
  13. Harold
  14. Paul
  15. Walter
  16. Raymond
  17. Henry
  18. Jack
  19. Arthur
  20. Albert
  21. Kenneth
  22. Harry
  23. Ralph
  24. David
  25. Eugene
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Ruby
  2. Josephine
  3. Eleanor
  4. Edna
  5. Annie
  6. Thelma
  7. Ethel
  8. Lucille
  9. Edith
  10. Lois
  11. Pauline
  12. Hazel
  13. Grace
  14. Shirley
  15. Barbara
  16. Bernice
  17. Marion
  18. Beatrice
  19. Esther
  20. June
  21. Norma
  22. Clara
  23. Gertrude
  24. Ann
  25. Emma
  26. Sarah
  27. Rita
  28. Phyllis
  29. Katherine
  30. Jane
  31. Lorraine
  32. Juanita
  33. Geraldine
  34. Elsie
  35. Julia
  36. Gloria
  37. Agnes
  38. Bertha
  39. Eva
  40. Ida
  41. Anne
  42. Marian
  43. Laura
  44. Patricia
  45. Willie
  46. Pearl
  47. Viola
  48. Kathryn
  49. Vivian
  50. Myrtle
  51. Charlotte
  52. Wilma
  53. Nancy
  54. Vera
  55. Kathleen
  56. Bessie
  57. Maxine
  58. Nellie
  59. Alma
  60. Lillie
  61. Violet
  62. Jessie
  63. Stella
  64. Audrey
  65. Ella
  66. Minnie
  67. Wanda
  68. Lucy
  69. Sylvia
  70. Ellen
  71. Eileen
  72. Jeanne
  73. Genevieve
  74. Mabel
  75. Margie
Boys
  1. Howard
  2. Louis
  3. Willie
  4. Clarence
  5. Carl
  6. Earl
  7. Roy
  8. Fred
  9. Francis
  10. Joe
  11. Lawrence
  12. Ernest
  13. Leonard
  14. Anthony
  15. Herbert
  16. Stanley
  17. Alfred
  18. Samuel
  19. Norman
  20. Warren
  21. Bernard
  22. Daniel
  23. Michael
  24. Russell
  25. Melvin
  26. Leo
  27. Edwin
  28. Andrew
  29. Elmer
  30. Leroy
  31. Marvin
  32. Peter
  33. Gerald
  34. Lloyd
  35. Frederick
  36. Floyd
  37. Theodore
  38. Clifford
  39. Chester
  40. Ray
  41. Herman
  42. Clyde
  43. Vernon
  44. Lester
  45. Philip
  46. Vincent
  47. Charlie
  48. Alvin
  49. Milton
  50. Lewis
  51. Gordon
  52. Leon
  53. Wayne
  54. Glenn
  55. Martin
  56. Jesse
  57. Benjamin
  58. Lee
  59. Sam
  60. Cecil
  61. Victor
  62. Wallace
  63. Harvey
  64. Dale
  65. Billy
  66. Willard
  67. Oscar
  68. Edgar
  69. Arnold
  70. Allen
  71. Roger
  72. Claude
  73. Everett
  74. Virgil
  75. Gilbert
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1922.

Famous people born in 1922

Har Gobind Khorana · Indian-American molecular biologistJanuary 9
Ahmed Sékou Touré · President of GuineaJanuary 9
Betty White · American actress and comedianJanuary 17
Robert W. Holley · American biochemistJanuary 28
Yitzhak Rabin · Israeli politician, statesman and generalMarch 1
Pier Paolo Pasolini · Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectualMarch 5
Ralph H. Baer · German-born American inventor and engineerMarch 8
Hiroo Onoda · Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officerMarch 19
Carl Reiner · American actorMarch 20
Alan Perlis · American computer scientistApril 1
Doris Day · American actress and singerApril 3
Elmer Bernstein · American composer and conductorApril 4
Julius Nyerere · Tanzanian politician and writerApril 13
Michael Ansara · American stage, screen, and voice actorApril 15
Charles Mingus · American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleaderApril 22
Bea Arthur · American actress and comedienneMay 13
Franjo Tuđman · Croatian politician, soldier, president and historianMay 14
Christopher Lee · English actor and singerMay 27
Alain Resnais · French film directorJune 3
Judy Garland · American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillianJune 10
Erving Goffman · Canadian-American sociologistJune 11
Aage Bohr · Danish physicistJune 19
Eleanor Parker · American actressJune 26
Pierre Cardin · French-Italian fashion designerJuly 2
Leon M. Lederman · American mathematician and physicistJuly 15
Thomas Kuhn · American historian, physicist and philosopherJuly 18
George McGovern · American historian and politicianJuly 19
John B. Goodenough · American materials scientistJuly 25
Jason Robards · American actorJuly 26
Alain Robbe-Grillet · French author and film directorAugust 18
Howard Zinn · American historian, playwright, and socialist thinkerAugust 24
Yvonne De Carlo · Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singerSeptember 1
Arthur Ashkin · American physicistSeptember 2
Hans Georg Dehmelt · German physicistSeptember 9
Jackie Cooper · American actor, directorSeptember 15
Agostinho Neto · President of AngolaSeptember 17
Emil Zátopek · Czech long-distance runnerSeptember 19
Arthur Penn · American producer and directorSeptember 27
Norodom Sihanouk · Cambodian monarch and politicianOctober 31
Barbara Bel Geddes · American actressOctober 31
Christiaan Barnard · South African cardiac surgeonNovember 8
Dorothy Dandridge · American actress and singerNovember 9
Imre Lakatos · Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and scienceNovember 9
Kurt Vonnegut · American authorNovember 11
Kim Hunter · American actressNovember 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali · Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996November 14
José Saramago · Portuguese novelistNovember 16
Stanley Cohen · American biochemistNovember 17
Joan Fuster · Spanish writerNovember 23
Charles M. Schulz · American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts"November 26
Gérard Philipe · French actorDecember 4
Nikolay Basov · Soviet physicistDecember 14
Ava Gardner · American actressDecember 24
Stan Lee · American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producerDecember 28

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