1900s Baby Names
5,549 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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#491Peggy Peggy is a girl's name meaning pearl, a pet form of Margaret by way of Meg.1,100 in the 1900s
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#496Frankie Frankie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man" or "Frenchman."1,054 in the 1900s
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#498Aaron Aaron is a boy's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is not established.1,050 in the 1900s
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#499Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.1,045 in the 1900s
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#509Adam Adam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "earth" or "ground," from adamah.1,021 in the 1900s
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#512Connie Connie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfast" or "constant."996 in the 1900s
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#520Yvonne Yvonne is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.980 in the 1900s
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.