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Born in 1923

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

Top 100 baby names of 1923

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Dorothy
  3. Helen
  4. Margaret
  5. Betty
  6. Ruth
  7. Virginia
  8. Mildred
  9. Elizabeth
  10. Frances
  11. Doris
  12. Evelyn
  13. Anna
  14. Marie
  15. Alice
  16. Marjorie
  17. Irene
  18. Florence
  19. Jean
  20. Lillian
  21. Martha
  22. Louise
  23. Rose
  24. Catherine
  25. Ruby
Boys
  1. John
  2. Robert
  3. William
  4. James
  5. Charles
  6. George
  7. Joseph
  8. Edward
  9. Richard
  10. Donald
  11. Frank
  12. Thomas
  13. Harold
  14. Paul
  15. Raymond
  16. Walter
  17. Jack
  18. Henry
  19. Arthur
  20. Albert
  21. Kenneth
  22. Harry
  23. Ralph
  24. David
  25. Eugene
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Shirley
  2. Lois
  3. Eleanor
  4. Gladys
  5. Josephine
  6. Thelma
  7. Edna
  8. Barbara
  9. Annie
  10. Lucille
  11. Edith
  12. Pauline
  13. Ethel
  14. Grace
  15. Hazel
  16. Norma
  17. June
  18. Bernice
  19. Marion
  20. Phyllis
  21. Beatrice
  22. Esther
  23. Gloria
  24. Clara
  25. Rita
  26. Juanita
  27. Ann
  28. Emma
  29. Sarah
  30. Jane
  31. Patricia
  32. Lorraine
  33. Geraldine
  34. Gertrude
  35. Katherine
  36. Elsie
  37. Julia
  38. Agnes
  39. Bertha
  40. Marian
  41. Eva
  42. Willie
  43. Ida
  44. Vivian
  45. Kathleen
  46. Anne
  47. Kathryn
  48. Laura
  49. Wilma
  50. Nancy
  51. Maxine
  52. Charlotte
  53. Pearl
  54. Viola
  55. Wanda
  56. Bessie
  57. Vera
  58. Dolores
  59. Myrtle
  60. Audrey
  61. Violet
  62. Elaine
  63. Nellie
  64. Alma
  65. Jeanne
  66. Lillie
  67. Lucy
  68. Ella
  69. Jessie
  70. Eileen
  71. Stella
  72. Genevieve
  73. Sylvia
  74. Minnie
  75. Leona
Boys
  1. Howard
  2. Louis
  3. Carl
  4. Clarence
  5. Willie
  6. Earl
  7. Roy
  8. Fred
  9. Francis
  10. Joe
  11. Lawrence
  12. Leonard
  13. Ernest
  14. Anthony
  15. Herbert
  16. Stanley
  17. Alfred
  18. Warren
  19. Norman
  20. Samuel
  21. Bernard
  22. Daniel
  23. Melvin
  24. Leo
  25. Michael
  26. Marvin
  27. Russell
  28. Andrew
  29. Gerald
  30. Leroy
  31. Edwin
  32. Elmer
  33. Peter
  34. Lloyd
  35. Frederick
  36. Ray
  37. Theodore
  38. Chester
  39. Floyd
  40. Clifford
  41. Herman
  42. Vernon
  43. Clyde
  44. Wallace
  45. Philip
  46. Lester
  47. Vincent
  48. Alvin
  49. Lewis
  50. Wayne
  51. Gordon
  52. Leon
  53. Billy
  54. Charlie
  55. Martin
  56. Milton
  57. Calvin
  58. Jesse
  59. Glenn
  60. Lee
  61. Benjamin
  62. Cecil
  63. Victor
  64. Sam
  65. Dale
  66. Harvey
  67. Willard
  68. Arnold
  69. Edgar
  70. Roger
  71. Oscar
  72. Allen
  73. Bill
  74. Everett
  75. Virgil
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1923.

Famous people born in 1923

Norman Mailer · American writerJanuary 31
Conrad Bain · Canadian-American actor, personality, entertainer, and activistFebruary 4
Chuck Yeager · American World War II flying ace and test pilotFebruary 13
Dexter Gordon · American jazz saxophonistFebruary 27
Charles Durning · American actorFebruary 28
Walter Kohn · American physicistMarch 9
Val Logsdon Fitch · American physicistMarch 10
Wally Schirra · American astronautMarch 12
Diane Arbus · American photographerMarch 14
Joseph Heller · American writerMay 1
Anne Baxter · American actressMay 7
Heydar Aliyev · 3rd President of the Republic of AzerbaijanMay 10
Merton Miller · American economistMay 16
Henry Kissinger · American diplomat and geopolitical advisorMay 27
Lloyd Shapley · American economist and mathematicianJune 2
Wisława Szymborska · Polish poet, Nobel Prize winnerJuly 2
Wojciech Jaruzelski · Polish military and political officialJuly 6
Rudolph A. Marcus · Canadian-American chemistJuly 21
Bob Dole · American politicianJuly 22
Stephanie Kwolek · American chemist, inventor of KevlarJuly 31
Shimon Peres · Israeli politician –Former President of Israel and Prime MinisterAugust 2
Rose Marie · American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performerAugust 15
Richard Attenborough · British actorAugust 29
Rocky Marciano · American heavyweight boxing championSeptember 1
Rasul Gamzatov · Avar poetSeptember 8
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek · American medical researcherSeptember 9
Cliff Robertson · American actorSeptember 9
Lee Kuan Yew · 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of SingaporeSeptember 16
Hank Williams · American singer-songwriterSeptember 17
Charlton Heston · American actorOctober 4
Glynis Johns · British actressOctober 5
Linda Darnell · American actressOctober 16
Roy Lichtenstein · American pop artistOctober 27
Jack Kilby · American electrical engineerNovember 8
Alan Shepard · American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorerNovember 18
Nadine Gordimer · South African writerNovember 20
Mauno Koivisto · President of FinlandNovember 25
Gloria Grahame · American actressNovember 28
Maria Callas · American-Greek operatic sopranoDecember 2
Bob Barker · American game show hostDecember 12
Philip W. Anderson · American physicistDecember 13
Freeman Dyson · Theoretical physicist and mathematicianDecember 15

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