1900s Baby Names

543 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#2,081
Dossie
86 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,088
Tomie
85 in the 1900s
#2,120
Fate
82 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,139
Kelley Kelley is the same Irish name as Kellie, spelled differently, and the two split its births between them — this one peaked in 1968 and that one in 1969, a year apart at nearly the same size.
81 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,147
Loney
80 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,155
Loran
80 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,176
Acie
78 in the 1900s
#2,179
Sammy Sammy means God has heard, or possibly name of God — the Hebrew admits both readings, and the Bible's own explanation of Samuel uses a pun on asking that fits neither.
78 in the 1900s
#2,183
Lockie
77 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,185
Llewellyn
77 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,189
Sylvan
77 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,191
Elgie
77 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,196
Helmi
76 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,208
Orrie
76 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,209
Babe
76 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,215
Farris
75 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,217
Arley
75 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,224
Mickey
75 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,229
Oakley Oakley is a name of Old English origin meaning "oak clearing" or "oak meadow."
74 in the 1900s
#2,236
Ever
74 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,249
Zollie
73 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,271
Ozell
72 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,284
Woodie
71 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,287
Ezell
70 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,314
Toby Toby is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is good."
69 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,326
Franklyn
68 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,342
Dempsey
67 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,344
Ura
67 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,368
Arden
66 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,373
Chesley
66 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,385
Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."
65 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,386
Almer
65 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,388
Anice
65 in the 1900s
#2,392
Val
65 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,402
Brownie
64 in the 1900s 6 of 10 years
#2,407
Byrd
64 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,416
Lorin
63 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,424
Vernal
62 in the 1900s 6 of 10 years
#2,429
Elliot Elliot is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
62 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,431
Levie
62 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,434
Davie
62 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,443
Lattie
61 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,446
Pearley
61 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,470
Reece Reece means ardor, and its England and Wales peak of 1,828 in 1996 is far larger than anything the United States has recorded — a Welsh name that reached America late and never matched its home scale.
60 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,471
Vernell
60 in the 1900s 7 of 10 years
#2,475
Lemmie
60 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years
#2,485
Harvie
59 in the 1900s 9 of 10 years
#2,500
Conley
58 in the 1900s 8 of 10 years

What Made a 1900s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1900 and 1909. A name's position here is how many of them were.

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.