New Zealand: Most Popular Baby Names in 1910

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 John 928 babies 1
2 William 879 babies 1
3 James 506 babies =
4 George 498 babies =
5 Robert 370 babies =
6 Thomas 347 babies =
7 Charles 334 babies 1
8 Arthur 304 babies 1
9 Albert 241 babies 1
10 Frederick 232 babies 1
11 Edward 225 babies 1
12 Eric 224 babies 2
13 Henry 199 babies 2
14 Francis 196 babies 9
15 Alfred 189 babies 2
16 Leslie 182 babies 5
17 Ernest 177 babies =
18 Walter 177 babies 1
19 Ronald 165 babies 2
20 Norman 163 babies 2
21 Harold 161 babies 5
22 Gordon 153 babies 2
23 Herbert 147 babies 2
24 David 142 babies =
25 Stanley 142 babies 5
26 Richard 141 babies 2
27 Frank 136 babies 4
28 Kenneth 136 babies 2
29 Cyril 126 babies 5
30 Jack 126 babies 8
31 Alexander 123 babies 13
32 Raymond 119 babies =
33 Joseph 118 babies 4
34 Leonard 114 babies 7
35 Allan 106 babies =
36 Douglas 100 babies 1
37 Reginald 93 babies 4
38 Colin 90 babies 8
39 Donald 90 babies 1
40 Harry 87 babies 3
41 Roy 79 babies 2
42 Cecil 77 babies 6
43 Clarence 76 babies 1
44 Ivan 76 babies 13
45 Keith 74 babies =
46 Maurice 69 babies 8
47 Andrew 67 babies 1
48 Clifford 66 babies 1
49 Alan 65 babies 2
50 Patrick 65 babies 5
51 Percy 62 babies 1
52 Samuel 60 babies 1
53 Geoffrey 59 babies 24
54 Sydney 59 babies 13
55 Ian 58 babies 11
56 Edwin 57 babies 4
57 Bernard 55 babies 6
58 Hector 55 babies 2
59 Lawrence 55 babies 2
60 Victor 55 babies 13
61 Archibald 54 babies 8
62 Noel 49 babies 5
63 Hugh 45 babies 13
64 Claude 44 babies 1
65 Mervyn 43 babies 15
66 Wilfred 43 babies 4
67 Laurence 41 babies 16
68 Trevor 41 babies 3
69 Horace 37 babies 10
70 Ralph 37 babies 11
71 Leo 36 babies 13
72 Philip 36 babies 10
73 Owen 35 babies 5
74 Sidney 35 babies 8
75 Daniel 34 babies 13
76 Arnold 33 babies 12
77 Gilbert 33 babies 7
78 Malcolm 32 babies 8
79 Peter 32 babies 6
80 Edgar 31 babies 8
81 Basil 29 babies 33
82 Michael 28 babies 1
83 Allen 27 babies 15
84 Lewis 27 babies 9
85 Lionel 27 babies =
86 Louis 27 babies 12
87 Howard 24 babies 11
88 Matthew 23 babies 7
89 Edmund 22 babies 27
90 Percival 22 babies 4
91 Vincent 22 babies 17
92 Bruce 21 babies 17
93 Stuart 19 babies 41
94 Gerald 18 babies 4
95 Vernon 18 babies 45
96 Aubrey 17 babies new
97 Desmond 17 babies 13
98 Dudley 17 babies 5
99 Lindsay 17 babies new
100 Martin 17 babies 9
101 Russell 17 babies 9
102 Neil 16 babies 3
103 Oswald 16 babies 29
104 Roderick 16 babies 23
105 Stephen 16 babies 9
106 Athol 15 babies 22
107 Benjamin 15 babies 1
108 Duncan 15 babies 16
109 Graham 15 babies new
110 Angus 14 babies 18
111 Anthony 14 babies 2
112 Rex 14 babies 14
113 Vivian 14 babies new
114 Hubert 13 babies 17
115 Neville 13 babies 24
116 Phillip 13 babies 4
117 Bertram 12 babies 20
118 Cedric 12 babies 29
119 Clive 12 babies 32
120 Lester 12 babies 2
121 Murray 12 babies 4
122 Paul 12 babies new
123 Roland 12 babies 2
124 Carl 11 babies 17
125 Clement 11 babies 2
126 Karl 11 babies new
127 Maxwell 11 babies 23
128 Oliver 11 babies 17
129 Selwyn 11 babies 17
130 Stewart 11 babies 31
131 Wallace 11 babies 31
132 Denis 10 babies 23
133 Lancelot 10 babies 16
134 Mark 10 babies new
135 Wilfrid 10 babies new

Girl Names

1 Mary 533 babies =
2 Margaret 351 babies =
3 Dorothy 249 babies =
4 Kathleen 219 babies 1
5 Gladys 217 babies 4
6 Doris 215 babies 4
7 Edna 205 babies 3
8 Florence 200 babies 7
9 Eileen 196 babies 1
10 Elizabeth 194 babies 4
11 Phyllis 187 babies =
12 Annie 182 babies 6
13 Alice 181 babies 6
14 Mavis 171 babies 2
15 Jean 168 babies 12
16 Jessie 165 babies 3
17 Ethel 155 babies 1
18 Ellen 147 babies 2
19 Olive 146 babies 7
20 Irene 144 babies =
21 Elsie 143 babies 8
22 Edith 132 babies 1
23 Marjorie 130 babies 1
24 Ivy 129 babies 1
25 Agnes 123 babies 6
26 Violet 121 babies 2
27 Winifred 121 babies 3
28 Catherine 120 babies 11
29 Thelma 118 babies 4
30 Hazel 114 babies 2
31 Vera 114 babies 2
32 Evelyn 113 babies =
33 Muriel 104 babies 4
34 Rita 104 babies =
35 Myrtle 103 babies 2
36 Grace 94 babies 2
37 Iris 91 babies 3
38 Ruby 91 babies 3
39 Mabel 89 babies 3
40 Helen 79 babies 4
41 Eva 78 babies 1
42 Frances 74 babies 3
43 Hilda 70 babies =
44 Nancy 70 babies 3
45 Joan 67 babies 47
46 Joyce 67 babies =
47 Gwendoline 66 babies 2
48 Beatrice 64 babies 10
49 Mona 64 babies =
50 Lilian 62 babies 5
51 Dulcie 61 babies 25
52 Constance 58 babies 4
53 Ada 57 babies 17
54 Alma 57 babies 1
55 Emily 57 babies 5
56 Lucy 57 babies 11
57 May 57 babies 16
58 Nellie 57 babies 2
59 Ruth 55 babies =
60 Marion 54 babies 2
61 Isabella 52 babies 10
62 Lorna 51 babies 2
63 Gertrude 50 babies 5
64 Rona 50 babies 20
65 Marjory 49 babies 4
66 Janet 47 babies 5
67 Rose 47 babies 13
68 Audrey 46 babies 52
69 Isabel 45 babies 8
70 Lillian 45 babies 5
71 Freda 44 babies 6
72 Ida 43 babies 15
73 Beryl 42 babies 2
74 Lily 42 babies 8
75 Amy 38 babies 23
76 Clara 38 babies 3
77 Eunice 38 babies 33
78 Norma 38 babies 24
79 Marie 37 babies 37
80 Sarah 37 babies 5
81 Christina 36 babies 21
82 Daisy 36 babies 4
83 Daphne 36 babies 20
84 Jane 36 babies 2
85 Bertha 35 babies 4
86 Myra 35 babies 3
87 Doreen 34 babies 7
88 Clarice 33 babies 9
89 Flora 33 babies 2
90 Mildred 32 babies 12
91 Emma 31 babies 3
92 Linda 31 babies 7
93 Sylvia 31 babies 14
94 Ella 30 babies 7
95 Ena 30 babies 3
96 Louisa 30 babies 7
97 Minnie 30 babies 4
98 Esther 29 babies 2
99 Una 29 babies 6
100 Barbara 28 babies 10
101 Patricia 28 babies 3
102 Stella 28 babies 11
103 Eleanor 27 babies 31
104 Martha 27 babies 13
105 Phillis 27 babies 4
106 Betty 26 babies 1
107 Katherine 26 babies 1
108 Nora 26 babies 34
109 Enid 25 babies 28
110 Olga 25 babies 23
111 Amelia 24 babies 16
112 Bessie 24 babies 12
113 Dora 24 babies 10
114 Laura 24 babies 20
115 Norah 24 babies 7
116 Veronica 22 babies 2
117 Aileen 21 babies 11
118 Charlotte 21 babies 11
119 Maud 21 babies 19
120 Ina 20 babies 9
121 Josephine 20 babies 13
122 Monica 20 babies 10
123 Winnifred 20 babies 4
124 Ailsa 19 babies 24
125 Hannah 18 babies 7
126 Maude 18 babies new
127 Reta 18 babies 8
128 Julia 17 babies 11
129 Adelaide 16 babies 33
130 Caroline 16 babies 24
131 Fanny 16 babies =
132 Henrietta 16 babies 13
133 Lena 16 babies 1
134 Margery 16 babies 19
135 Marguerite 16 babies new
136 Nina 16 babies 10
137 Rhoda 16 babies 1
138 Sybil 16 babies new
139 Alison 15 babies 29
140 Cecilia 15 babies new
141 Dorothea 15 babies 9
142 Eliza 15 babies 17
143 Phylis 15 babies new
144 Rachel 15 babies 3
145 Rosina 15 babies new
146 Georgina 14 babies 8
147 Helena 14 babies new
148 Inez 14 babies 27
149 Lois 14 babies new
150 Miriam 14 babies new
151 Molly 14 babies 28
152 Roma 14 babies 7
153 Vida 14 babies 11
154 Ann 13 babies 25
155 Esme 13 babies new
156 Harriet 13 babies 1
157 Isobel 13 babies new
158 Madge 13 babies 5
159 Ngaire 13 babies 19
160 Phoebe 13 babies 14
161 Zena 13 babies 14
162 Adeline 12 babies new
163 Elva 12 babies 33
164 Gwendolyn 12 babies new
165 Isabelle 12 babies new
166 Mollie 12 babies 1
167 Pearl 12 babies 44
168 Zoe 12 babies 7
169 Esma 11 babies 14
170 Kate 11 babies new
171 Madeline 11 babies 19
172 Robina 11 babies new
173 Cora 10 babies 29

Source: Department of Internal Affairs

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