Born in 1925
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1925
Girls
- Mary
- Dorothy
- Betty
- Helen
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Virginia
- Doris
- Mildred
- Elizabeth
- Frances
- Evelyn
- Anna
- Jean
- Alice
- Marie
- Shirley
- Lois
- Irene
- Gloria
- Marjorie
- Barbara
- Martha
- Florence
- Lillian
Boys
- Robert
- John
- William
- James
- Charles
- George
- Joseph
- Richard
- Edward
- Donald
- Thomas
- Frank
- Paul
- Harold
- Raymond
- Walter
- Jack
- Henry
- Kenneth
- Arthur
- Albert
- David
- Harry
- Eugene
- Ralph
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Rose
- Louise
- Patricia
- Catherine
- Ruby
- Eleanor
- Annie
- Gladys
- Norma
- Thelma
- Josephine
- Edna
- Pauline
- June
- Phyllis
- Lucille
- Edith
- Ethel
- Grace
- Hazel
- Bernice
- Marion
- Rita
- Juanita
- Beatrice
- Lorraine
- Ann
- Jane
- Geraldine
- Clara
- Esther
- Emma
- Sarah
- Joyce
- Nancy
- Katherine
- Wilma
- Elsie
- Dolores
- Julia
- Joan
- Marian
- Willie
- Agnes
- Gertrude
- Eva
- Wanda
- Elaine
- Bertha
- Laura
- Vivian
- Charlotte
- Audrey
- Maxine
- Theresa
- Kathleen
- Ida
- Marilyn
- Viola
- Anne
- Vera
- Bessie
- Kathryn
- Jeanne
- Pearl
- Lillie
- Violet
- Ella
- Alma
- Myrtle
- Eileen
- Jessie
- Nellie
- Margie
- Mattie
Boys
- Howard
- Willie
- Carl
- Louis
- Clarence
- Earl
- Roy
- Fred
- Joe
- Francis
- Lawrence
- Ernest
- Leonard
- Anthony
- Stanley
- Norman
- Herbert
- Alfred
- Daniel
- Gerald
- Samuel
- Calvin
- Bernard
- Billy
- Melvin
- Marvin
- Leroy
- Russell
- Leo
- Michael
- Andrew
- Edwin
- Floyd
- Clifford
- Peter
- Elmer
- Lloyd
- Theodore
- Ray
- Frederick
- Warren
- Vernon
- Clyde
- Herman
- Alvin
- Vincent
- Gordon
- Chester
- Wayne
- Philip
- Leon
- Glenn
- Charlie
- Lewis
- Milton
- Lester
- Lee
- Martin
- Bill
- Jesse
- Dale
- Cecil
- Harvey
- Victor
- Roger
- Sam
- Wallace
- Benjamin
- Allen
- Arnold
- Edgar
- Willard
- Roland
- Oscar
- Johnnie
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1925.
Famous people born in 1925
Lee Van Cleef · American actorJanuary 9
Yukio Mishima · Japanese authorJanuary 14
Gilles Deleuze · French philosopherJanuary 18
Paul Newman · American actorJanuary 26
Douglas Engelbart · American engineer and inventorJanuary 30
Jack Lemmon · American actorFebruary 8
Hal Holbrook · American actorFebruary 17
George Kennedy · American actorFebruary 18
Robert Altman · American filmmakerFebruary 20
Sam Peckinpah · American film directorFebruary 21
Leo Esaki · Japanese physicistMarch 12
Flannery O'Connor · American writerMarch 25
Rod Steiger · American actorApril 14
Scott Carpenter · American test pilot, astronaut and aquanautMay 1
Yogi Berra · American baseball player, manager, and coachMay 12
Malcolm X · American Black rights activistMay 19
Joshua Lederberg · American molecular biologistMay 23
Jeanne Crain · American actressMay 25
Bülent Ecevit · 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of TurkeyMay 28
Tony Curtis · American actorJune 3
Barbara Bush · First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993June 8
William Styron · American novelist and essayistJune 11
Audie Murphy · American soldier and actorJune 20
Maureen Stapleton · American actressJune 21
Robert Venturi · American architectJune 25
Giorgio Napolitano · President of Italy from 2006 to 2015June 29
Patrice Lumumba · Congolese politician and independence leaderJuly 2
Bill Haley · American rock and roll music pioneerJuly 6
Frantz Fanon · French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopherJuly 20
Baruch Samuel Blumberg · American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winnerJuly 28
Mikis Theodorakis · Greek composerJuly 29
Alija Izetbegović · Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and authorAugust 8
Roy J. Glauber · American theoretical physicistSeptember 1
Peter Sellers · British actor and comedianSeptember 8
B. B. King · American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriterSeptember 16
Ananda Mahidol · Eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIIISeptember 20
Robert Edwards · English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitroSeptember 27
Gore Vidal · American writerOctober 3
Elmore Leonard · American novelist and screenwriterOctober 11
Margaret Thatcher · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990October 13
Lenny Bruce · American comedian and social criticOctober 13
Angela Lansbury · British-American-Irish actress and singerOctober 16
Celia Cruz · Cuban singerOctober 21
Robert Rauschenberg · American painter and graphic artistOctober 22
Johnny Carson · American talk show host and comedianOctober 23
Doris Roberts · American actressNovember 4
Richard Burton · Welsh actorNovember 10
Jonathan Winters · American comedian, actor, artistNovember 11
Rock Hudson · American actorNovember 17
Zygmunt Bauman · Polish philosopher and sociologistNovember 19
Robert F. Kennedy · American politician and lawyerNovember 20
Maya Plisetskaya · Russian ballet dancerNovember 20
Simon van der Meer · Dutch physicistNovember 24
Martin Rodbell · American biochemistDecember 1
Julie Harris · American actressDecember 2
Albert Bandura · Canadian psychologistDecember 4
Sammy Davis Jr. · American entertainerDecember 8
Paul Greengard · American neuroscientistDecember 11
Dick Van Dyke · American actor and comedianDecember 13
Carlos Castaneda · Peruvian-American authorDecember 25
Michel Piccoli · French actorDecember 27
Milton Obote · President of UgandaDecember 28