1910s Baby Names

4,707 names were given to children in the United States between 1910 and 1919, 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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Rankings for

#120
Peter Peter is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "rock."
25,039 in the 1910s
#122
Russell Russell is a boy's name from a Norman nickname meaning little red, given to someone red-haired or ruddy.
24,984 in the 1910s
#125
Daniel Daniel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my judge," from Daniyyel.
24,066 in the 1910s
#128
Edwin Edwin is a boy's name from Old English meaning rich friend, borne by a Northumbrian king whose fortress may have given Edinburgh its name.
23,815 in the 1910s
#131
Chester Chester is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "fortress" or "walled camp."
23,673 in the 1910s
#132
Frederick Frederick is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "peaceful ruler."
23,608 in the 1910s
#137
Herman Herman means army man, and the German national hero Hermann is a Latin scribe's version of a Cheruscan name we cannot now recover — Arminius, the chief who destroyed three Roman legions in AD 9.
22,716 in the 1910s
#143
Melvin Melvin is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, and the gentle chieftain reading usually given for it is an invention — the source is a Norman family who took their name from Malleville in France.
21,943 in the 1910s
#144
Lloyd Lloyd is a boy's name from the Welsh word for gray, and the double L is a genuine Welsh consonant that English has no letter for.
21,918 in the 1910s
#145
Lester Lester means from Leicester, and the spelling is the honest one — Leicester has been pronounced LES-ter for centuries, so the surname simply wrote down what people had actually been saying to each other all along.
21,732 in the 1910s
#146
Floyd Floyd is the same name as Lloyd, and the F is a mistake that stuck — English had no way to say the Welsh double L, so it substituted the closest sound it had, and the substitution became a separate name.
21,698 in the 1910s
#150
Leroy Leroy is a boy's name that is simply the French for the king, taken as one word.
21,388 in the 1910s
#151
Clifford Clifford is a boy's name from an English place name meaning a ford by a cliff — a river crossing below a steep bank.
21,247 in the 1910s
#152
Theodore Theodore is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God," formed from theos, meaning god, and doron, meaning gift.
21,204 in the 1910s
#155
Clyde Clyde took nothing from Bonnie and Clyde.
20,804 in the 1910s
#161
Ray Ray is a boy's name that serves as a short form of Raymond and as the English word for a beam of light.
18,825 in the 1910s
#163
Sam Sam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has heard," a short form of Samuel.
18,740 in the 1910s
#164
Woodrow
18,441 in the 1910s
#166
Vincent Vincent is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "conquering," from vincere, to conquer.
18,374 in the 1910s
#167
Philip Philip is a boy's name from Greek elements meaning lover of horses.
18,224 in the 1910s
#169
Marvin Marvin is a boy's name from the Welsh Merfyn, and the sea friend reading usually given for it is not supported — the Welsh elements point to marrow and eminent instead.
17,941 in the 1910s
#171
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
17,911 in the 1910s
#173
Cecil Cecil means blind, from a Roman family name, and the saint who made it famous is patron of music on the strength of one ambiguous line in her own account of her wedding day.
17,799 in the 1910s
#174
Milton Milton means the mill settlement, and there is a second and quite separate source meaning the middle settlement — two entirely different Old English place names that ended up producing exactly the same modern spelling.
17,625 in the 1910s
#175
Benjamin Benjamin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of the right hand," from Binyamin.
17,342 in the 1910s
#177
Vernon Vernon is a Norman place name meaning a place of alders, from a Gaulish word — so a French town gave England a surname that America turned into a first name, three languages deep.
17,314 in the 1910s
#178
Victor Victor is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "conqueror."
17,254 in the 1910s
#182
Gerald Gerald is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning rule of the spear, and it gave Ireland one of its great Norman dynasties, the FitzGeralds.
16,617 in the 1910s
#183
Jesse Jesse is a name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is debated.
16,607 in the 1910s
#188
Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.
16,193 in the 1910s
#194
Willard Willard means bold desire, and both halves are Germanic words about force of will — it is a surname from a personal name, and its American use is almost entirely nineteenth-century onward.
15,640 in the 1910s
#195
Alvin Alvin means elf-friend, from an Old English name that treats elves as beings whose favor was worth having.
15,627 in the 1910s
#198
Leon Leon is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion."
15,506 in the 1910s
#203
Oscar Oscar is a boy's name with two competing origins: the Irish os, deer, plus cara, friend, giving "deer lover," or the Old Norse Ásgeirr, meaning "god's spear."
14,938 in the 1910s
#207
Glenn Glenn is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for a narrow valley, and like Craig and Dale it is a plain landscape noun.
14,513 in the 1910s
#208
Edgar Edgar is a boy's name meaning wealthy spear, and it is one of very few Old English names still in wide use.
14,157 in the 1910s
#214
Gordon Gordon is a Scottish surname turned given name, from a place in Berwickshire whose meaning is not settled — spacious fort is the usual gloss but it is a guess.
13,733 in the 1910s
#215
Stephen Stephen is a boy's name from the Greek for crown or garland, borne by the first Christian martyr.
13,553 in the 1910s
#217
Harvey Harvey is a boy's name of Breton origin meaning "battle worthy."
13,398 in the 1910s
#222
Everett Everett is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "brave as a wild boar," from eber, boar, and hard, brave or hardy.
12,813 in the 1910s
#223
Eddie Eddie is a boy's name, the pet form of Edward or Edwin, meaning wealth.
12,722 in the 1910s
#225
Arnold Arnold means eagle power, and England and Wales ranks it 631st on 59 births — well above the United States at 1478th, which is not what the name's twentieth-century American associations would predict.
12,673 in the 1910s
#226
Morris Morris means dark-skinned, from the Latin for a Moor — and the morris dance carries the same word, having been thought to imitate Moorish dancing when it reached England.
12,549 in the 1910s
#228
Wilbur Wilbur ranks 579th in England and Wales against 3956th in the United States, so a name most people think of as thoroughly American is now used more than six times more readily in England.
12,475 in the 1910s
#231
Warren Warren is a boy's name from a Norman place name, and it is the second-strongest revival we hold — it peaked in 1921 and now ranks 240th in the United States on 1,493 births, a century later.
12,090 in the 1910s
#233
Maurice Maurice is a boy's name from a Latin word meaning a Moor, originally describing someone from Roman North Africa. Our data marks it reviving, and it peaked in 1920 — a century-long gap of the same kind we see in Walter and Frances.
11,822 in the 1910s
#240
Wayne Wayne is an occupational surname meaning a wagon maker, and its life as a given name follows one man — John Wayne, who was born Marion Robert Morrison and renamed by a studio.
11,698 in the 1910s
#241
Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is genuinely unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.
11,670 in the 1910s

What made a 1910s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1910 and 1919, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1910s 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.