1900s Baby Names
1,838 names were given to children in the United States between 1900 and 1909, ranked below by how many.
A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.
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#3,578Cooper Cooper is a boy's name of English origin meaning "barrel maker."20 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,609Octave Octave is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "eighth," the French form of the family name Octavius that Augustus was born with.20 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,610Knox Knox is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "round hill."20 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,628Andre Andre is a boy's name, the French form of Andrew, from the Greek for manly.19 in the 1900s 2 of 10 years
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#3,648Marc Marc is a boy's name from a Roman name probably meaning dedicated to Mars, the god of war, and it is the source of the month of March.19 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,651Reggie Reggie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "ruler's counsel."19 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,654Emmanuel Emmanuel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is with us."19 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,680Pascal Pascal is a boy's name meaning of Easter, given to children born at Passover or Easter — and the word behind it is Hebrew, not Latin.18 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
What made a 1900s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1900 and 1909, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1900s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade
A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.
Where to Go Next
Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.