Born in 1924

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

Top 100 baby names of 1924

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Dorothy
  3. Helen
  4. Betty
  5. Margaret
  6. Ruth
  7. Virginia
  8. Mildred
  9. Doris
  10. Frances
  11. Elizabeth
  12. Evelyn
  13. Anna
  14. Marie
  15. Alice
  16. Jean
  17. Marjorie
  18. Irene
  19. Shirley
  20. Florence
  21. Martha
  22. Lois
  23. Lillian
  24. Louise
  25. Rose
Boys
  1. Robert
  2. John
  3. William
  4. James
  5. Charles
  6. George
  7. Joseph
  8. Richard
  9. Edward
  10. Donald
  11. Thomas
  12. Frank
  13. Harold
  14. Paul
  15. Raymond
  16. Walter
  17. Jack
  18. Henry
  19. Kenneth
  20. Arthur
  21. Albert
  22. Harry
  23. Ralph
  24. David
  25. Eugene
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Ruby
  2. Catherine
  3. Barbara
  4. Eleanor
  5. Gladys
  6. Edna
  7. Annie
  8. Thelma
  9. Josephine
  10. Patricia
  11. Edith
  12. Lucille
  13. Pauline
  14. Ethel
  15. Norma
  16. Gloria
  17. Hazel
  18. Grace
  19. Phyllis
  20. June
  21. Marion
  22. Bernice
  23. Juanita
  24. Rita
  25. Beatrice
  26. Esther
  27. Lorraine
  28. Jane
  29. Sarah
  30. Ann
  31. Clara
  32. Emma
  33. Geraldine
  34. Katherine
  35. Gertrude
  36. Elsie
  37. Julia
  38. Agnes
  39. Marian
  40. Bertha
  41. Eva
  42. Wilma
  43. Willie
  44. Nancy
  45. Ida
  46. Vivian
  47. Laura
  48. Elaine
  49. Wanda
  50. Dolores
  51. Kathleen
  52. Maxine
  53. Pearl
  54. Anne
  55. Charlotte
  56. Kathryn
  57. Viola
  58. Joyce
  59. Audrey
  60. Vera
  61. Bessie
  62. Alma
  63. Violet
  64. Myrtle
  65. Jeanne
  66. Jessie
  67. Nellie
  68. Eileen
  69. Ella
  70. Joan
  71. Theresa
  72. Lillie
  73. Lucy
  74. Ellen
  75. Minnie
Boys
  1. Howard
  2. Carl
  3. Louis
  4. Clarence
  5. Willie
  6. Roy
  7. Fred
  8. Earl
  9. Francis
  10. Joe
  11. Lawrence
  12. Ernest
  13. Leonard
  14. Anthony
  15. Stanley
  16. Herbert
  17. Norman
  18. Alfred
  19. Calvin
  20. Samuel
  21. Bernard
  22. Daniel
  23. Melvin
  24. Gerald
  25. Marvin
  26. Leo
  27. Russell
  28. Leroy
  29. Michael
  30. Edwin
  31. Andrew
  32. Elmer
  33. Warren
  34. Peter
  35. Ray
  36. Lloyd
  37. Frederick
  38. Billy
  39. Clifford
  40. Theodore
  41. Floyd
  42. Chester
  43. Vernon
  44. Clyde
  45. Herman
  46. Philip
  47. Lester
  48. Alvin
  49. Wayne
  50. Gordon
  51. Leon
  52. Lewis
  53. Vincent
  54. Glenn
  55. Charlie
  56. Milton
  57. Martin
  58. Lee
  59. Dale
  60. Cecil
  61. Jesse
  62. Wallace
  63. Harvey
  64. Benjamin
  65. Victor
  66. Sam
  67. Bill
  68. Roger
  69. Allen
  70. Arnold
  71. Edgar
  72. Willard
  73. Roland
  74. Oscar
  75. Gilbert
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1924.

Famous people born in 1924

Charlie Munger · American businessmanJanuary 1
Kim Dae-jung · 8th President of the Republic of KoreaJanuary 6
Roger Guillemin · French-American neuroscientistJanuary 11
Paul Feyerabend · Austrian-born philosopher of scienceJanuary 13
Benny Hill · British comedian and actorJanuary 21
Lee Marvin · American actorFebruary 19
Robert Mugabe · 2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017February 21
Allan MacLeod Cormack · American physicistFebruary 23
Deke Slayton · American astronautMarch 1
Kōbō Abe · Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventorMarch 7
Sarah Vaughan · American jazz and classical singerMarch 27
Marlon Brando · American actorApril 3
Stanley Donen · American film director and choreographerApril 13
Henry Mancini · American film composerApril 16
Kenneth Kaunda · First president of ZambiaApril 28
Antony Hewish · English physicist and radio astronomerMay 11
George H. W. Bush · 41st President of the United StatesJune 12
James Black · Scottish doctor and pharmacologistJune 14
Chet Atkins · American guitaristJune 20
Sidney Lumet · American director, producer and screenwriterJune 25
S. R. Nathan · 6th President of SingaporeJuly 3
Eva Marie Saint · American actressJuly 4
Pat Hingle · American actorJuly 19
Don Knotts · American actor and stand-up comedianJuly 21
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015August 1
Georges Charpak · French physicistAugust 1
James Baldwin · American writerAugust 2
Zia-ul-Haq · President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988, of Saudi originAugust 12
Phyllis Schlafly · American conservative activistAugust 15
Willard Boyle · Canadian physicist and inventorAugust 19
Robert Solow · American economistAugust 23
Dinah Washington · American singerAugust 29
Daniel arap Moi · Kenyan PresidentSeptember 2
Lauren Bacall · American actressSeptember 16
Marcello Mastroianni · Italian actorSeptember 28
Truman Capote · American writerSeptember 30
Jimmy Carter · President of the United States from 1977 to 1981October 1
Ed Wood · American screenwriterOctober 10
Lee Iacocca · American businessmanOctober 15
Süleyman Demirel · 9th President of the Republic of TurkeyNovember 1
Benoit Mandelbrot · Polish-born, French and American mathematicianNovember 20
Geraldine Page · American actressNovember 22
John Backus · American computer scientistDecember 3
Mário Soares · President of PortugalDecember 7
Raj Kapoor · Indian actor and filmmakerDecember 14

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