Born in 1926
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1926
Girls
- Mary
- Dorothy
- Betty
- Helen
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Doris
- Virginia
- Mildred
- Frances
- Elizabeth
- Jean
- Evelyn
- Shirley
- Anna
- Barbara
- Alice
- Marie
- Lois
- Gloria
- Irene
- Marjorie
- Patricia
- Martha
- Rose
Boys
- Robert
- John
- James
- William
- Charles
- George
- Richard
- Joseph
- Donald
- Edward
- Thomas
- Frank
- Paul
- Harold
- Raymond
- Jack
- Walter
- Kenneth
- Henry
- Arthur
- Albert
- David
- Eugene
- Ralph
- Harry
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Florence
- Louise
- Lillian
- Norma
- Ruby
- Catherine
- Eleanor
- Phyllis
- Annie
- Gladys
- Thelma
- Josephine
- Edna
- Pauline
- June
- Ethel
- Edith
- Lucille
- Joyce
- Bernice
- Grace
- Marion
- Hazel
- Dolores
- Rita
- Joan
- Juanita
- Lorraine
- Geraldine
- Ann
- Jane
- Nancy
- Beatrice
- Emma
- Audrey
- Clara
- Esther
- Sarah
- Theresa
- Marilyn
- Wanda
- Wilma
- Elaine
- Elsie
- Marian
- Gertrude
- Katherine
- Willie
- Beverly
- Julia
- Bertha
- Agnes
- Charlotte
- Eva
- Vivian
- Laura
- Ida
- Kathleen
- Vera
- Maxine
- Anne
- Kathryn
- Jeanne
- Bessie
- Donna
- Alma
- Eileen
- Jessie
- Violet
- Rosemary
- Pearl
- Viola
- Ella
- Lillie
- Ellen
Boys
- Carl
- Howard
- Willie
- Clarence
- Louis
- Fred
- Earl
- Joe
- Roy
- Francis
- Lawrence
- Ernest
- Leonard
- Norman
- Billy
- Gerald
- Anthony
- Stanley
- Herbert
- Alfred
- Daniel
- Melvin
- Samuel
- Bernard
- Marvin
- Leroy
- Russell
- Floyd
- Leo
- Edwin
- Michael
- Ray
- Peter
- Andrew
- Lloyd
- Elmer
- Clifford
- Theodore
- Frederick
- Calvin
- Vernon
- Clyde
- Wayne
- Herman
- Philip
- Warren
- Alvin
- Leon
- Bill
- Glenn
- Gordon
- Vincent
- Lester
- Chester
- Martin
- Charlie
- Lewis
- Milton
- Dale
- Lee
- Cecil
- Jesse
- Ronald
- Roger
- Harvey
- Gene
- Sam
- Allen
- Victor
- Wallace
- Don
- Jerry
- Benjamin
- Arnold
- Willard
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1926.
Famous people born in 1926
Patricia Neal · American stage and film actressJanuary 20
Steve Reeves · American bodybuilder and actorJanuary 21
Abdus Salam · Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipientJanuary 29
Vivian Maier · French-American photographerFebruary 1
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing · French official and politicianFebruary 2
Leslie Nielsen · Canadian-American actor and comedianFebruary 11
Richard Matheson · American fiction writerFebruary 20
Murray Rothbard · American economistMarch 2
Alan Greenspan · American economist and financial advisorMarch 6
Andrzej Wajda · Polish film directorMarch 6
Jerry Lewis · American comedian, actor and film directorMarch 16
Peter Graves · American actorMarch 18
Dario Fo · Italian actorMarch 24
Ingvar Kamprad · Swedish business magnateMarch 30
John Fowles · English novelistMarch 31
Jack Brabham · Australian racing driverApril 2
Gus Grissom · American astronautApril 3
Roger Corman · American film director and producerApril 5
Hugh Hefner · American businessman and magazine publisherApril 9
Elizabeth II · Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022April 21
Harper Lee · American novelistApril 28
Cloris Leachman · American actress and comedianApril 30
Don Rickles · American stand-up comedianMay 8
David Attenborough · British broadcaster and naturalistMay 8
Miles Davis · American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composerMay 26
Abdoulaye Wade · 3rd President of SenegalMay 29
Marilyn Monroe · American actress and modelJune 1
Allen Ginsberg · American poet and writerJune 3
Mel Brooks · American comedian, filmmaker, and actorJune 28
Paul Berg · American biochemistJune 30
Alfredo Di Stéfano · Argentine-Spanish association football playerJuly 4
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studiesJuly 8
Ben Roy Mottelson · Danish-American nuclear physicistJuly 9
Harry Dean Stanton · American actorJuly 14
Irwin Rose · American biologistJuly 16
Hilary Putnam · American philosopher and mathematicianJuly 31
Tony Bennett · American singerAugust 3
Aaron Klug · British chemist and biophysicistAugust 11
Fidel Castro · Cuban politician, author and revolutionaryAugust 13
René Goscinny · French comic book artist and authorAugust 14
Jiang Zemin · Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist PartyAugust 17
Clifford Geertz · American anthropologistAugust 23
Ivan Illich · Austrian philosopher and theologianSeptember 4
Masatoshi Koshiba · Japanese physicist and astronomerSeptember 19
Donald Glaser · American physicist and neurobiologistSeptember 21
John Coltrane · American jazz saxophonistSeptember 23
Thích Nhất Hạnh · Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activistOctober 11
Michel Foucault · French philosopherOctober 15
Julie Adams · American actressOctober 17
Chuck Berry · American musicianOctober 18
Necmettin Erbakan · 23rd Prime Minister of the Republic of TurkeyOctober 29
Valdas Adamkus · Lithuanian politician, twice President of LithuaniaNovember 3
Sathya Sai Baba · Indian spiritual guruNovember 23
Poul Anderson · American science fiction writerNovember 25
Beji Caid Essebsi · Tunisian politicianNovember 29
Andrew Schally · Polish-American endocrinologistNovember 30
Richard Crenna · American actor, director and producerNovember 30
Henry Way Kendall · American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in PhysicsDecember 9