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Born in 1931

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

Top 100 baby names of 1931

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Betty
  3. Dorothy
  4. Barbara
  5. Joan
  6. Helen
  7. Margaret
  8. Patricia
  9. Shirley
  10. Doris
  11. Ruth
  12. Virginia
  13. Jean
  14. Dolores
  15. Joyce
  16. Elizabeth
  17. Nancy
  18. Frances
  19. Marilyn
  20. Lois
  21. Alice
  22. Norma
  23. Gloria
  24. Evelyn
  25. Anna
Boys
  1. Robert
  2. James
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. Charles
  7. Donald
  8. George
  9. Joseph
  10. Thomas
  11. Edward
  12. Paul
  13. David
  14. Kenneth
  15. Jack
  16. Frank
  17. Raymond
  18. Harold
  19. Billy
  20. Walter
  21. Eugene
  22. Henry
  23. Arthur
  24. Albert
  25. Ralph
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Mildred
  2. Marie
  3. Martha
  4. Phyllis
  5. Rose
  6. Beverly
  7. Donna
  8. Louise
  9. Marjorie
  10. Ann
  11. Catherine
  12. Irene
  13. Geraldine
  14. Ruby
  15. Eleanor
  16. Annie
  17. Peggy
  18. Florence
  19. June
  20. Janet
  21. Carol
  22. Lillian
  23. Rita
  24. Lorraine
  25. Jane
  26. Josephine
  27. Edna
  28. Thelma
  29. Wanda
  30. Gladys
  31. Pauline
  32. Juanita
  33. Delores
  34. Theresa
  35. Carolyn
  36. Clara
  37. Lucille
  38. Bernice
  39. Audrey
  40. Edith
  41. Marion
  42. Ethel
  43. Joanne
  44. Wilma
  45. Grace
  46. Sarah
  47. Elaine
  48. Bonnie
  49. Hazel
  50. Charlotte
  51. Emma
  52. Arlene
  53. Jacqueline
  54. Esther
  55. Anne
  56. Billie
  57. Vivian
  58. Patsy
  59. Marian
  60. Beatrice
  61. Elsie
  62. Kathleen
  63. Rosemary
  64. Laura
  65. Joann
  66. Julia
  67. Katherine
  68. Willie
  69. Eva
  70. Marlene
  71. Loretta
  72. Sally
  73. Jeanne
  74. Ellen
  75. Ida
Boys
  1. Gerald
  2. Ronald
  3. Carl
  4. Joe
  5. Harry
  6. Willie
  7. Bobby
  8. Fred
  9. Howard
  10. Roy
  11. Norman
  12. Louis
  13. Lawrence
  14. Clarence
  15. Earl
  16. Herbert
  17. Francis
  18. Jerry
  19. Daniel
  20. Marvin
  21. Anthony
  22. Ernest
  23. Leonard
  24. Stanley
  25. Alfred
  26. Melvin
  27. Leroy
  28. Roger
  29. Bernard
  30. Michael
  31. Samuel
  32. Wayne
  33. Bill
  34. Don
  35. Ray
  36. Peter
  37. Dale
  38. Russell
  39. Gene
  40. Andrew
  41. Floyd
  42. Lloyd
  43. Edwin
  44. Leo
  45. Theodore
  46. Philip
  47. Glenn
  48. Frederick
  49. Vernon
  50. Clifford
  51. Gordon
  52. Clyde
  53. Bob
  54. Allen
  55. Alvin
  56. Jimmie
  57. Elmer
  58. Herman
  59. Leon
  60. Douglas
  61. Vincent
  62. Lewis
  63. Larry
  64. Jimmy
  65. Lee
  66. Martin
  67. Gilbert
  68. Harvey
  69. Charlie
  70. Eddie
  71. Lester
  72. Jesse
  73. Arnold
  74. Milton
  75. Warren
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1931.

Famous people born in 1931

Toshiki Kaifu · Japanese politicianJanuary 2
Robert Duvall · American actor and directorJanuary 5
Johannes Rau · German politician, 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004January 16
James Earl Jones · American actorJanuary 17
Chun Doo-hwan · 11th and 12th President of the Republic of KoreaJanuary 18
David Lee · American physicist and Nobel Prize laureateJanuary 20
Sam Cooke · American singer and songwriterJanuary 22
Boris Yeltsin · Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of RussiaFebruary 1
Isabel Perón · First female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976February 4
Rip Torn · American actorFebruary 6
James Dean · American actorFebruary 8
Thomas Bernhard · Austrian playwright and novelistFebruary 9
Toni Morrison · African American novelist, essayist, and academicFebruary 18
John Milnor · American mathematicianFebruary 20
Mikhail Gorbachev · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991March 2
Neil Postman · American writer and academicMarch 8
Rupert Murdoch · American businessmanMarch 11
Burton Richter · American physicistMarch 22
William Shatner · Canadian actorMarch 22
Leonard Nimoy · American actorMarch 26
Tomas Tranströmer · Swedish poet, psychologist and translatorApril 15
Fred Brooks · American computer scientistApril 19
Willie Mays · American baseball playerMay 6
Philip Kotler · American marketing author, consultant, and professorMay 27
Carroll Baker · American actressMay 28
John Robert Schrieffer · American physicistMay 31
Raúl Castro · Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of CubaJune 3
João Gilberto · Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa novaJune 10
Olympia Dukakis · American actressJune 20
Martinus J. G. Veltman · Dutch theoretical physicistJune 27
Leslie Caron · French and American actress and dancerJuly 1
Alice Munro · Canadian writerJuly 10
Roger Penrose · English mathematical physicistAugust 8
William Goldman · American novelist, screenwriter and playwrightAugust 12
Richard F. Heck · American chemistAugust 15
Hamilton O. Smith · American microbiologistAugust 23
Barbara Eden · American actress and singerAugust 23
George Jones · American country musicianSeptember 12
Anne Bancroft · American actressSeptember 17
Larry Hagman · American actorSeptember 21
Syukuro Manabe · Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologistSeptember 21
James Cronin · American physicistSeptember 29
Angie Dickinson · American actressSeptember 30
Richard Rorty · American philosopherOctober 4
Riccardo Giacconi · Italian-American astrophysicistOctober 6
Desmond Tutu · South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winnerOctober 7
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam · Indian scientist, president and statesmanOctober 15
John le Carré · British novelist and spyOctober 19
Sofia Gubaidulina · Soviet and Russian composerOctober 24
Nawal El Saadawi · Egyptian feminist writerOctober 27
Ike Turner · American musicianNovember 5
Mike Nichols · American director and comedianNovember 6
Mwai Kibaki · 3rd President of KenyaNovember 15
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel · Argentine activist, architect and sculptorNovember 26
Osho · Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movementDecember 11
John Charles · Welsh association football playerDecember 27

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