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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#381
Abraham Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
6,040 in the 1910s
#383
Salvatore Salvatore means savior, and it is a title rather than a description — Italian Catholic families gave it as a devotional name naming Christ's role directly, in the way Spanish families use Jesús.
5,976 in the 1910s
#384
Jose Jose is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," the Spanish and Portuguese form of Joseph.
5,968 in the 1910s
#386
Jim Jim is a boy's name meaning supplanter, shortened from James — which is the same name as Jacob, split into two by Latin.
5,901 in the 1910s
#389
Lyle Lyle is a boy's name from the Norman French for "the island," and the l at the front is the definite article rather than part of the word.
5,836 in the 1910s
#391
Don Don is a boy's name shortened from Donald, meaning world ruler.
5,763 in the 1910s
#392
Calvin Calvin is a boy's name of French origin meaning "little bald one," from the Latin calvus, bald.
5,744 in the 1910s
#394
Clayton Clayton means the settlement on clay, from an English place name that describes the ground it stood on.
5,683 in the 1910s
#396
Bruce Bruce is a boy's name from a Norman place name, and Scotland's most famous king carried it as an import — the Bruces came from Normandy, not from Scotland.
5,648 in the 1910s
#397
Marshall Marshall began as a stable hand — the word meant a horse servant, and it climbed to become the highest rank in several armies.
5,627 in the 1910s
#399
Otto Otto is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "wealth" or "fortune."
5,593 in the 1910s
#401
Sylvester Sylvester means of the woods, and a pope carried it into the calendar — Sylvester I died on 31 December, which is why New Year's Eve is still called Silvester across much of Europe.
5,542 in the 1910s
#405
Clinton Clinton means the settlement on the hill, from an English place name — and the two American presidents who carried it did so by adoption and by surname, not by descent from the place.
5,320 in the 1910s
#407
Ronald Ronald is a boy's name from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr, meaning ruler's counsel, brought to Scotland by Norse settlement.
5,306 in the 1910s
#409
Wilbert Wilbert means bright will, and it is one of a small set of names joining desire to brightness — the same beorht that ends Albert, Robert and Gilbert, on a first element meaning wanting something.
5,285 in the 1910s
#410
Delbert Delbert is recorded in one country and nowhere else — every one of its 47,056 births is American, with no births in any other market in any year we hold, which is rare even among American coinages.
5,270 in the 1910s
#411
Irvin Irvin names a Scottish river valley, and the green water reading describes the water rather than the banks — Brittonic river names usually record color or behavior, not the land beside them.
5,264 in the 1910s
#415
Phillip Phillip is a boy's name meaning lover of horses, the doubled-l spelling of Philip.
5,146 in the 1910s
#417
Lonnie Lonnie shortens Alonzo and Alphonso, meaning noble and ready — and the Germanic original reached Spain with the Visigoths, so a name that reads as American South is Gothic by descent.
5,095 in the 1910s
#419
Ervin
5,029 in the 1910s
#421
Wilfred Wilfred is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "desiring peace."
5,010 in the 1910s
#423
Elbert
4,996 in the 1910s
#424
Forrest Forrest is one of only two names in this group our data marks as rising, and it is on its second life — American births ran 490 in 2018 and 862 in 2025, having collapsed from a 1994 peak twenty years before.
4,989 in the 1910s
#425
Ivan Ivan is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious."
4,967 in the 1910s
#426
Isaac Isaac is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he laughs," from Yitzhak.
4,959 in the 1910s
#427
Felix Felix is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lucky" or "fortunate."
4,936 in the 1910s
#428
Gene Gene means well-born, shortened from Eugene — and it has nothing at all to do with genes in biology, which is a separate word coined in 1909 from a different Greek root entirely, by a Danish botanist.
4,930 in the 1910s
#429
Rufus Rufus means red-haired, and it named a king by his complexion — William II of England was called Rufus for his ruddy face, and he died with an arrow in him in the New Forest.
4,926 in the 1910s
#431
August August is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "majestic," from augustus.
4,890 in the 1910s
#433
Nathaniel Nathaniel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God."
4,813 in the 1910s
#435
Dan Dan means he judged, and it is a full Hebrew name in its own right before it is short for Daniel — one of Jacob's twelve sons, and the tribe that gave its name to the northern border of Israel.
4,775 in the 1910s
#436
Julian Julian is a boy's name of Latin origin, derived from the Roman family name Julius.
4,766 in the 1910s
#437
Nelson Nelson means son of Neil, and the admiral made it a given name — it was a surname until Trafalgar, after which parents across the English-speaking world started using it as a first name outright.
4,752 in the 1910s
#438
Karl Karl means free man, and it is the original German spelling behind Charles — the word named a free peasant, so it began at the bottom of the free classes and rose to name emperors.
4,715 in the 1910s
#439
Nick Nick means victory of the people, and the compound is political rather than personal — the Greek joins victory to the citizen body, so it describes a public triumph and not an individual one.
4,699 in the 1910s
#441
Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.
4,605 in the 1910s
#442
Aaron Aaron is a boy's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is not established.
4,592 in the 1910s
#445
Adolph
4,531 in the 1910s
#446
Alton Alton means the settlement at the river's source, and that is more specific than the old town reading usually given — the Old English element is a spring or wellhead, not age.
4,491 in the 1910s
#447
Bert
4,490 in the 1910s
#448
Adam Adam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "earth" or "ground," from adamah.
4,485 in the 1910s
#452
Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.
4,430 in the 1910s
#453
Pete Pete means rock, and it began as a joke about a man's character — Jesus renames Simon as Cephas, the Aramaic for a stone, and the pun works in Greek but not in English.
4,368 in the 1910s
#456
Percy
4,318 in the 1910s
#461
Mark Mark is a boy's name of Latin origin, most likely meaning "of Mars," borne by the evangelist who wrote the earliest gospel.
4,222 in the 1910s
#462
Dennis Dennis is a boy's name that traces back to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstatic release — one of the few widely used Christian names derived from a pagan deity.
4,203 in the 1910s
#463
Emmett Emmett is a boy's name of English origin derived from Emma — it is a matronymic surname, formed from a woman's name rather than a man's, which was unusual in medieval England.
4,201 in the 1910s
#466
Antonio Antonio is a boy's name of Etruscan origin whose meaning is unknown.
4,145 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.