1900s Baby Names
3,131 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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#2,945Gina Gina is not one name — it is the ending of several different ones, and which name it shortens changes the meaning entirely.38 in the 1900s 6 of 10 years
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#2,977Miranda Miranda was coined by Shakespeare for The Tempest around 1611, from the Latin for to be wondered at.36 in the 1900s 4 of 10 years
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#2,982Gemma Gemma is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "gem" or "precious stone."36 in the 1900s 5 of 10 years
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#2,991Hadley Hadley is a girl's name of English origin meaning "heather meadow," from the Old English hæth, heather or heathland, and leah, a clearing.36 in the 1900s 3 of 10 years
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#3,009Cindy Cindy is a girl's name, a pet form of Cynthia, which was a title of the moon goddess Artemis.35 in the 1900s 6 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.