List of people with the most children
Female and monogamous couples
This section lists females who gave birth to at least 20 children. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century.

List of people with the most children

Section Title: Female and monogamous couples
Table Section Text: This section lists females who gave birth to at least 20 children. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century.

No. of children	Mother/couple	Notes

69	Mrs. and Mr. Feodor Vassilyev (1st wife)	Vassilyev and his first wife are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has parented. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.

62	Mr. and Mrs. Gravata	A Tuscan woman named Gravata gave birth to a total of 62 live children.

57	Mrs. and Mr. Yakov Kirillov	The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births.

53	Barbara and Adam Stratzmann	It is claimed that Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448 – 1503) of Bönnigheim, Germany, gave birth to 53 children (38 sons and 15 daughters) in a total of 29 births by 1498.

52	Maddalena Granata	Maddalena Granata (born 1839) of the City of Nocera, Italy, who married at age 28, had given birth to 52 living and dead children, 49 being males, by 1886.

42	Elizabeth and John Mott	Elizabeth Mott of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, married in 1676 and produced 42 live-born children. She died in 1720.

41	Alice Hookes	According to the inscription on a gravestone in Conway Church cemetery, Gwynedd, North Wales, Nicholas Hookes (died 1637) was the 41st child of his mother Alice Hookes, but there were no further details.

39	Elizabeth and William Greenhill	Thomas Greenhill was the last child of 39 by his mother Elizabeth (1615–1681) and William Greenhill. The family consisted of 7 sons and 32 daughters.

38	Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye	As of April 2017, 37-year-old Nabatanzi, living in a village in the Mukono District of Uganda, had 38 children, all but one of whom she had delivered from home (her then 4-month-old had required a delivery by caesarean section).

35	Mrs. and Mr. Harrison	Mrs. Harrison, the wife of an undertaker residing in Vere Street, London, gave birth to her 35th child by one husband in 1736.

33	Mary and John Jonas	Mary Jonas (1814–1899) gave birth to 33 children, including 15 sets of boy–girl twins. All were christened, but few reached adulthood.

32	Moddie and Perccell Oliver	Mrs. Moddile M.

32	Maria Addolorata Casalini	Mrs. Casalini (born 1929) of Brindisi, Italy, married at 17 and gave birth to her 32nd child on November 11, 1970.

32	Madalena and Raimundo Carnauba	Madalena Carnauba of Ceilândia, Brazil married at 13 and gave birth to 32 children: 24 sons and 8 daughters.

32	Maria Benita Olivera	Mrs. Olivera (born 1939) of San Juan, Argentina, gave birth to her 32nd child on 31 January 1989.

30	Rebecca Town	Mrs. Town (1807–1851) of Keighley, Yorkshire, had 30 children, but only one reached age 3.

29	Anna Theresia Pleyl	She was the first wife of Martin Pleyel (see fathers), a schoolmaster from Ruppersthal in Lower Austria in the 18th century.

28	Griffith and Elizabeth Johnson	Elizabeth G Johnson was born in 1732 in Montgomery, Maryland. She married Griffith Johnson on February 16, 1766, in Annapolis, Maryland.

28	Mabel Murphy	Mrs. Murphy (born 1898) of Lisnaskea, Co.

27	Glendora Pope	Mrs. Pope, the wife of an Idaho carpenter, gave birth to her 27th child in June 1939, at the age of 45.

27	Marie-Elise (née Chamberland) and Heliodore Cyr	Marie-Elise Chamberland and Heliodore Cyr married in 1928 and had 27 children by 1959, all single births. 19 of them survived to adulthood.

25	Wéber Andrásné Szirotek Teréz	Mrs. Wéber (b.

25	Lapa Piagenti and Giacomo di Benincasa	Their 23rd child was Saint Catherine of Siena.

25	Ada Watson	Mrs. Watson (1886–1974) of Cambridge gave birth to 25 children, including three sets of twins, during the period 1904–1931.

24	Kathleen Scott	Mrs. Scott (b.

24	Marcella S. (née Mills) Big Crow and James M. Big Crow Sr.	Marcella Mills-Big Crow (1924–1989) of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, had 24 children, including eight pairs of twins. Five children died in infancy.

23	Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern	The great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom had 23 children in 19 pregnancies between 1684 and 1705 (including four sets of twins); 11 of them survived to adulthood.

23	Queen Darejan and King Heraclius II of Georgia	They had a total of 23 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood.

23	Tabatha Marcum and Silas Mainord	Married in 1811, they lived in Overton County, Tennessee and produced 23 children. One of their daughters, Syreana, later became the mother of 17.

23	Grace Bagnato	Grace Bagnato and her husband had 23 children; 9 of them were conceived in order to compete for a bequest by a Toronto eccentric, in what became known as the Great Stork Derby.

23	Irene and Charles DeMello	Irene DeMello of Tiverton, Rhode Island, gave birth to her 23rd child in February 1958 at the age of 40 in her 25 years of marriage.

23	Mary and Sylvester Hemsing	Mary Hemsing (1913-2014) of Rolling Hills, Alberta, Canada, gave birth to 11 boys and 12 girls, one of whom was stillborn.

22	Ursula and Franz Adolf Dietrich von Ingelheim	The German Count Franz Adolf Dietrich von Ingelheim (1659–1742) of Mainz and his wife Ursula (1668–1730) had 22 children between 1683 and 1712.

22	Emily FitzGerald	Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster and her first husband James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, had nineteen children born between 1748 and 1773.

22	Marie Massicotte and Philippe Dontigny	These children were born between 1888 and 1915 at Champlain, Québec; 14 of them died in infancy. There were no multiple births.

22	Mrs. and Mr. Hostetter	Roy Hostetter, a 46-year-old Pennsylvania miner, and his wife, aged 42, announced the birth of their 22nd child in May 1941.

22	Charlotte and Marlon Story	Charlotte Story of Bakersfield, California, gave birth to her 22nd child in July 1946. All but two of the other 21 children, including four sets of twins, were alive.

22	Mrs. Dick Renata	Mrs. Dick Renata, a Maori, of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, gave birth to her 22nd child in November 1948.

22	Madeleine and Marce Devaud	Madeleine Devaud, wife of a village dairyman of La Gorre, western France, gave birth to her 22nd child, a boy, in March 1952, at the age of 42.

22	Mabel Constable	Mrs. Constable (born 1920), of Long Itchington, Warwicks, gave birth to 22 children, including a set of triplets and two sets of twins.

22	Margaret McNaught	Mrs. McNaught (born 1923), of Balsall Heath, Birmingham, gave birth to 22 children, 12 boys (2 of them died in infancy) and 10 girls, all single births.

22	Lucille and Alvin Miller	Mrs. Miller gave birth to her first child at age 17; her last child was born when she was 43.

22	Effie (née Estes) and Charles Dickey	From Clinton, Maine, Mrs. Dickey gave birth to 22 children, all single births.

22	Bridget Brown (née Fagan) and Patrick Brown	From Dublin, Ireland. Fifteen sons and seven daughters; thirteen survived infancy. The twelfth child was disabled writer Christy Brown.

22	Unidentified Romani woman	A 38-year-old Romani woman of Lom, Bulgaria, gave birth to her 22nd child in March 1998. She and her husband had no jobs.

22	Alice (née Spencer) & John Jennings	Jennings was a MP of St. Albans before the English Civil War.

21	Olivia (née Whitmore) and Arthur Guinness	Guinness was an Irish brewer. Only ten of their children lived to adulthood.

21	Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear	Their 20th child was English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet Edward Lear (born 1812).

21	Teodora (née Lopez) and Raymundo Olivas	Born in 1809 in Los Angeles, Raymundo Olivas met his future wife, Teodora Lopez, in Santa Barbara. They were married in 1832, and together they had 21 children – 13 boys and eight girls.

21	Josephine & Michael Salzo Sr.	The 21 children included the first known surviving set of quadruplets in New Haven, Connecticut; triplets; and two sets of twins.

21	Anna and Henry Crocker	18 of their children lived to adulthood.

21	Mrs. and Mr. Albert Cunningham	The couple from Iron Mountain, Michigan, welcomed their 21st child in September 1930 after 27 years of marriage. Seventeen of their children were alive.

21	Mary Chaloner Hale	The wife of General John Hale (1728–1806), Mary Hale (1743–1803, born Mary Chaloner in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England) bore 21 offspring between the years of 1764 and 1789, including her first child, John Hale.

21	Elizabeth Hudson	Mrs. Hudson, of London, the wife of a paint sprayer, gave birth to her 21st child in February 1955, at the age of 45.

21	Edith Hill	Mrs. Hill, of Leicester, England, the wife of a postman, gave birth to her 21st child in December 1960, at the age of 46.

21	Mary and Wara Tengu	The Maori couple from Hamilton, New Zealand, welcomed their 21st child in January 1968; the mother was then 42 years old.

21	Aliza and Meir Ben-Haroush	Aliza Ben-Haroush of Haifa gave birth to her 21st child in July 1969 at the age of 46 and became the most prolific mother in Israel.

21	Unidentified Indian woman	Not much is known about this case except that a woman from Assam gave birth to her 21st child in 1970.

21	Leonora and Yanosh Nameni	Leonora Nameni, of Ostritsa, Hertsa Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, gave birth to her 21st child in October 2013, at the age of 44, becoming the most prolific mother in Ukraine.

21	Sebastiana Maria da Conceicao	Sebastiana Maria da Conceicao, aged 51, gave birth to her 21st child in the city of Aracaju, Brazil, in May 2015.

21	Noel and Sue Radford	Suzanne (Sue) Radford – born 22 March 1975 (age 43), of Morecambe, UK gave birth to her 21st child in 2018.

20	Jane (née Purdon) and Adam Loftus.	The Archbishop of Armagh, and later of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Adam Loftus, had 20 children with his wife Jane between c.

20	Catherine Marion de Druy and Antoine Arnauld	Famous French lawyer Antoine Arnauld had 20 children with his wife Catherine Marion de Druy between 1588 and 1612, ten of whom survived to adulthood.

20	Elizabeth Carleton	Elizabeth Carleton, daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, had one child, daughter Elizabeth, with her first husband Thomas Barker, and 19 children with her second husband Giles Vanbrugh, 12 of whom survived infancy, including English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh (1664 – 1726) and Commodore Governor of Newfoundland Philip Vanbrugh (c.

20	Marie Elisabeth of Eggenberg and Ferdinand Joseph	Ferdinand Joseph had 20 children with his wife Marie Elisabeth of Eggenberg between 1657 and 1685 (all single births), of whom only five survived to adulthood.

20	Anne Margrethe Rossing and Peder Horrebow	Danish astronomer Peder Horrebow and his wife Anne Margrethe Rossing had a total of 20 children. One of their sons, Christian Horrebow, born 1718, continued his father's work.

20	Barbe Arnault and Antoine Monneron	Barbe Arnault and Antoine Monneron had 20 children between 1733 and 1758 (all single births), 12 of whom survived infancy. Their sons became well known Monneron brothers.

20	Rosgen (née Fuld) and Hayum Lowenstein	Rosgen and Hayum Lowenstein of Langendernbach, Germany, had 20 children, 19 of whom survived to adulthood. The youngest child was born in 1860.

20	Marie Verrault and Pierre Edouard Cauchon	Born between 1853 and 1882 at Château-Richer, Québec, Canada, sixteen of the children died in infancy, and one as a young adult.

20	Florestine Piché and Gaspard Beaupré	Florestine Piché and Gaspard Beaupré had 20 children; the eldest of them was famous giant Édouard Beaupré, born in 1881 in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan.

20	Emma Catherine Padgett and Addison Bidwell Millard	Addison Millard (1843-1898) and Emma Padgett (1849-1919) married in 1865 in Urbana, Maryland, and had 20 children, the last of whom was born in 1890.

20	Elise Steinmann and Leonhard Hauser	The couple had 20 children, seven of whom died as infants. Elise Steinmann (1848-1928) and Leonhard Hauser (1842-1915) were both born in Switzerland.

20	Ella and James Lee Townsend	Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers from Montgomery County, Mississippi, had a total of 20 children. The youngest of them was American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist Fannie Lou Hamer, born in 1917.

20	Gertrude Louisa Rowe Goodley and George Thomas Jolley	Gertrude and George married in 1905 and had 20 children between 1906 and 1932, when Gertrude was aged 46. The family were from the Tolaga Bay area on New Zealand's North Island..

20	Mary and John Fullerton	Mary and John Fullerton from County Donegal, Ireland, had 20 children, the eldest of whom was Eddie Fullerton, born in 1935.

20	Mrs. and Mr. Rexford Oakley	Mrs. Oakley, aged 54, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, gave birth to her 20th child in December 1954.

20	Zola Inez (née Sutterfield) and Harvey Auston Smith	Mrs. Smith (born September 1, 1910) gave birth to her 20th child in Mountain View, Arkansas, in May 1956, at the age of 45.

20	Rose Alma and Roland Letendre	The couple had 20 children; the youngest died as a result of birth injury. All the children were born in Drummondville, Quebec.

20	Mrs. and Mr. Edward Bitter	Mrs. Bitter, aged 40, the wife of a bricklayer, from Covington, Kentucky, gave birth to her 20th child in January 1958.

20	Dolores and Prosper Grenier	Dolores Grenier, aged 43, of Waterville, Maine, gave birth to her 20th child in April 1961. During 26 years of marriage she gave birth to 12 sons and eight daughters, including three sets of twins.

20	Eldora and James Parnell	Eldora Parnell, aged 42, of Bakersfield, California, gave birth to her 20th child in November 1966, after 27 years of marriage.

20	The mother of Maria Goncales Moreira	Not much is known about this case except the fact that she had ten sets of twins. Her daughter also had ten sets of twins (see below).

20	Maria Goncales Moreira	Mrs. Moreira of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gave birth to her tenth set of twins (identical boys) on July 3, 1984.

20	Jessie Campbell	Mrs. Campbell (born 1946) of Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, gave birth to her 20th child on 22 January 1990.

20	Julianna and Ernő Lukács	Julianna Lukács and her husband, a Hungarian farmer, have six sons and fourteen daughters. They live in Tolna, Hungary, in a mansion farming on 3,336 acres (1,350 ha).

20	Valentina and Anatoliy Khromykh	Valentina Khromykh from Lev-Tolstovsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, gave birth to 20 children, 11 boys and 9 girls. As of May 2015, 15 of the children were alive (two died in infancy and other three at the ages of 12, 28 and 32), the oldest child was 46 and the youngest was 22.

20	Elizabeth and Joseph Mattingly	From Nelson County, Kentucky, Mrs. Mattingly gave birth to twenty children, all of whom lived to adulthood.

20	Elena and Alexander Shishkin	Elena Shishkina (born 1958) of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, gave birth to her 20th child in April 2003, becoming the most prolific mother in Russia; her eldest son was 24 at that time.

Sentence(s)

Arthur Guinness and Olivia Whitmore had 21 children, 10 of whom lived to adulthood.

final_sentence: Arthur Guinness and Olivia Whitmore had 21 children, 10 of whom lived to adulthood.