New Zealand: Most Popular Baby Names in 1909

Names registered at least 10 times in a year, so the list is shorter in early years. Spellings with and without macrons are counted together (Nikau and Nīkau).

Boy Names

1 William 898 babies =
2 John 858 babies =
3 James 527 babies =
4 George 427 babies =
5 Robert 394 babies 1
6 Thomas 346 babies 1
7 Arthur 340 babies 1
8 Charles 335 babies 1
9 Frederick 259 babies =
10 Albert 229 babies 1
11 Leslie 215 babies 1
12 Edward 214 babies 1
13 Alfred 200 babies 1
14 Eric 199 babies 2
15 Henry 197 babies =
16 Harold 189 babies 2
17 Ernest 184 babies =
18 Alexander 172 babies 13
19 Walter 170 babies =
20 Gordon 169 babies 9
21 Ronald 166 babies 2
22 Norman 155 babies 1
23 Francis 145 babies 7
24 David 143 babies 4
25 Herbert 142 babies 2
26 Kenneth 140 babies 2
27 Leonard 139 babies 3
28 Richard 136 babies 4
29 Joseph 134 babies 3
30 Stanley 133 babies 8
31 Frank 129 babies 6
32 Raymond 128 babies 1
33 Reginald 123 babies 2
34 Cyril 120 babies 2
35 Allan 108 babies 6
36 Cecil 107 babies 2
37 Douglas 107 babies =
38 Jack 106 babies 4
39 Roy 85 babies 1
40 Donald 84 babies 4
41 Sydney 82 babies 9
42 Clarence 79 babies 3
43 Harry 77 babies 1
44 Ian 76 babies 7
45 Keith 73 babies 10
46 Colin 71 babies 3
47 Victor 71 babies 4
48 Andrew 67 babies 4
49 Clifford 67 babies 5
50 Hugh 63 babies 3
51 Alan 62 babies 5
52 Percy 60 babies 4
53 Samuel 59 babies 17
54 Maurice 55 babies 9
55 Patrick 54 babies 3
56 Hector 50 babies 5
57 Ivan 49 babies 7
58 Leo 47 babies 18
59 Ralph 45 babies 10
60 Edwin 44 babies 7
61 Lawrence 44 babies 5
62 Wilfred 44 babies 3
63 Bernard 43 babies 3
64 Arnold 41 babies 15
65 Claude 41 babies 8
66 Sidney 39 babies 11
67 Noel 37 babies 1
68 Allen 36 babies 5
69 Archibald 36 babies 16
70 Gilbert 36 babies 5
71 Trevor 36 babies 4
72 Edgar 35 babies =
73 Peter 35 babies 10
74 Vincent 35 babies 17
75 Bruce 33 babies 25
76 Howard 33 babies 18
77 Geoffrey 31 babies 6
78 Owen 31 babies 6
79 Horace 29 babies 11
80 Mervyn 29 babies 2
81 Michael 29 babies 7
82 Philip 29 babies 24
83 Laurence 28 babies 3
84 Athol 27 babies 13
85 Lionel 26 babies 23
86 Malcolm 26 babies 4
87 Clive 24 babies
88 Daniel 24 babies 1
89 Cedric 23 babies 23
90 Gerald 21 babies 8
91 Martin 21 babies 8
92 Russell 21 babies 33
93 Lewis 19 babies 12
94 Percival 19 babies 9
95 Matthew 18 babies 14
96 Stephen 18 babies 6
97 Hubert 17 babies 11
98 Louis 17 babies 3
99 Stewart 17 babies
100 Wallace 17 babies 15
101 Brian 16 babies
102 Christopher 16 babies
103 Dudley 16 babies 11
104 Maxwell 16 babies 27
105 Neil 16 babies 9
106 Benjamin 15 babies 15
107 Carl 15 babies 6
108 Clifton 15 babies
109 Denis 15 babies 13
110 Desmond 15 babies 3
111 Oliver 15 babies 21
112 Selwyn 15 babies 23
113 Anthony 14 babies
114 Basil 14 babies 31
115 Claud 14 babies
116 Edmund 14 babies 13
117 Lancelot 14 babies
118 Lester 14 babies =
119 Nelson 14 babies 5
120 Phillip 14 babies 32
121 Roland 14 babies 17
122 Terence 14 babies 4
123 Clement 13 babies 7
124 Duncan 13 babies 31
125 Murray 13 babies
126 Rex 13 babies
127 Roderick 13 babies
128 Angus 12 babies 26
129 Bertie 12 babies
130 Lloyd 12 babies 7
131 Morris 12 babies
132 Oswald 12 babies 29
133 Rupert 12 babies 23
134 Stuart 12 babies 23
135 Theodore 12 babies 16
136 Archie 11 babies 30
137 Bertram 11 babies 9
138 Fredrick 11 babies 25
139 Neville 11 babies 25
140 Vernon 11 babies 54
141 Austin 10 babies

Girl Names

1 Mary 513 babies =
2 Margaret 368 babies =
3 Dorothy 269 babies =
4 Edna 245 babies 5
5 Kathleen 236 babies 5
6 Annie 223 babies 2
7 Alice 218 babies 1
8 Eileen 207 babies 1
9 Gladys 198 babies 4
10 Doris 196 babies 6
11 Phyllis 194 babies 2
12 Mavis 192 babies 5
13 Elsie 190 babies 2
14 Elizabeth 184 babies 2
15 Florence 181 babies 4
16 Ellen 167 babies 15
17 Catherine 157 babies 10
18 Ethel 155 babies 4
19 Jessie 155 babies 1
20 Irene 147 babies 1
21 Edith 146 babies 2
22 Marjorie 145 babies 7
23 Ivy 144 babies 7
24 Violet 142 babies 3
25 Thelma 141 babies 1
26 Olive 139 babies 8
27 Jean 132 babies 13
28 Hazel 131 babies 6
29 Vera 128 babies 4
30 Winifred 126 babies =
31 Agnes 118 babies 7
32 Evelyn 118 babies 3
33 Myrtle 114 babies 11
34 Rita 109 babies 1
35 Ruby 109 babies 3
36 Mabel 99 babies 8
37 Muriel 99 babies =
38 Grace 97 babies 2
39 Frances 86 babies 1
40 Iris 86 babies 3
41 May 79 babies 4
42 Eva 78 babies 3
43 Hilda 78 babies 2
44 Helen 77 babies 7
45 Gwendoline 74 babies 11
46 Joyce 70 babies 14
47 Nancy 69 babies 1
48 Constance 68 babies 4
49 Mona 68 babies 7
50 Emily 64 babies 3
51 Isabella 64 babies 3
52 Amy 63 babies 3
53 Alma 62 babies 1
54 Rose 61 babies 27
55 Lilian 57 babies 2
56 Nellie 57 babies 1
57 Ida 56 babies 9
58 Beatrice 54 babies 3
59 Ruth 54 babies 8
60 Christina 53 babies 8
61 Isabel 53 babies 2
62 Marion 53 babies =
63 Daphne 50 babies 15
64 Lorna 50 babies 12
65 Lillian 49 babies 7
66 Lily 49 babies 18
67 Lucy 49 babies 3
68 Gertrude 48 babies 4
69 Marjory 48 babies 24
70 Ada 47 babies 22
71 Janet 47 babies 1
72 Eleanor 43 babies 7
73 Clara 42 babies 25
74 Nora 41 babies 29
75 Beryl 40 babies 22
76 Dulcie 40 babies 2
77 Freda 40 babies 27
78 Mildred 40 babies 1
79 Sylvia 39 babies 27
80 Doreen 38 babies 15
81 Bertha 37 babies 8
82 Jane 37 babies 25
83 Myra 36 babies 4
84 Rona 35 babies 11
85 Sarah 35 babies 26
86 Daisy 34 babies 17
87 Ella 34 babies 16
88 Emma 33 babies 5
89 Louisa 33 babies 3
90 Barbara 30 babies 22
91 Flora 30 babies 2
92 Joan 30 babies 2
93 Una 30 babies 26
94 Laura 29 babies 14
95 Amelia 28 babies 13
96 Esther 28 babies 11
97 Clarice 27 babies 3
98 Ena 27 babies 6
99 Linda 27 babies 8
100 Maud 27 babies 11
101 Minnie 27 babies 13
102 Norma 26 babies 21
103 Dora 25 babies 23
104 Patricia 24 babies 38
105 Betty 23 babies 31
106 Caroline 23 babies 5
107 Charlotte 23 babies 3
108 Katherine 23 babies 16
109 Phillis 23 babies 25
110 Eunice 22 babies 5
111 Ina 22 babies 9
112 Monica 22 babies 2
113 Stella 22 babies 17
114 Veronica 22 babies 7
115 Margery 21 babies 32
116 Marie 21 babies 7
117 Martha 21 babies 15
118 Hannah 20 babies 20
119 Reta 20 babies 11
120 Audrey 19 babies 12
121 Inez 19 babies 7
122 Norah 19 babies 23
123 Pearl 19 babies 48
124 Bessie 18 babies 24
125 Eliza 18 babies 3
126 Nina 18 babies 15
127 Winnifred 18 babies 49
128 Aileen 17 babies 13
129 Ann 17 babies
130 Elva 17 babies 3
131 Fanny 17 babies 6
132 Lena 17 babies =
133 Olga 17 babies 16
134 Josephine 16 babies 21
135 Maisie 16 babies 6
136 Rhoda 16 babies 18
137 Enid 15 babies 27
138 Georgina 15 babies 22
139 Julia 15 babies 18
140 Ngaire 15 babies
141 Rachel 15 babies
142 Vida 15 babies
143 Blanche 14 babies
144 Cora 14 babies
145 Henrietta 14 babies 9
146 Phoebe 14 babies 16
147 Zena 14 babies 9
148 Ailsa 13 babies
149 Bernice 13 babies
150 Dorothea 13 babies
151 Leila 13 babies 20
152 Madeline 13 babies 6
153 Madge 13 babies 28
154 Melba 13 babies
155 Esma 12 babies 2
156 Eveline 12 babies 2
157 Harriet 12 babies 18
158 Lydia 12 babies
159 Roma 12 babies
160 Tui 12 babies
161 Zoe 12 babies 18
162 Adelaide 11 babies 3
163 Elma 11 babies
164 Moira 11 babies
165 Mollie 11 babies
166 Rowena 11 babies
167 Sheila 11 babies
168 Alison 10 babies
169 Anna 10 babies 17
170 Anne 10 babies
171 Effie 10 babies 4
172 Euphemia 10 babies 28
173 Francis 10 babies
174 Heather 10 babies
175 Jeannie 10 babies
176 Leah 10 babies 7
177 Maggie 10 babies 44
178 Millicent 10 babies
179 Molly 10 babies 31
180 Queenie 10 babies

Source: Department of Internal Affairs

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