1910s Baby Names

4,689 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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#586
Simon Simon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he has heard," borne by the apostle Peter before his renaming.
2,786 in the 1910s
#589
Hyman
2,778 in the 1910s
#593
Ed
2,752 in the 1910s
#594
Burton
2,751 in the 1910s
#596
Dave Dave ranks 2,217th in England and Wales and 2,469th in the United States, so the short form outranks its American peak market in a country that never recorded more than fifteen in a year.
2,730 in the 1910s
#597
Edmond Edmond means wealthy protector, and its saint was a king shot with arrows by Danes — Edmund of East Anglia was England's patron for three centuries before George replaced him.
2,727 in the 1910s
#598
Grant Grant means tall or large, from a Norman French nickname — and it has nothing to do with granting or giving, which is a different word that arrived in English by a separate route.
2,718 in the 1910s
#600
Bob Bob comes from Robert, and the B is not a corruption but a system — medieval English made pet names by rhyming, which is why Rob gave Bob, Will gave Bill and Rick gave Dick.
2,700 in the 1910s
#601
Kermit
2,697 in the 1910s
#602
Dwight Dwight descends from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine — through the medieval woman's name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, which is an unusually indirect route for a masculine surname.
2,691 in the 1910s
#604
Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.
2,681 in the 1910s
#605
Solomon Solomon means peace, and it charts in all seven markets — the same Hebrew shalom behind the Arabic Suleiman, so one name covers the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions at once.
2,680 in the 1910s
#606
Jake Jake is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," a short form of Jacob that became a name in its own right.
2,680 in the 1910s
#610
Mitchell Mitchell is a boy's name from a medieval English form of Michael, meaning who is like God — though a second and quite separate source exists from an old word simply meaning big.
2,638 in the 1910s
#612
Emanuel Emanuel began as a sign rather than a name — Isaiah tells Ahaz that a child will be called God with us as proof of a prophecy, and the phrase became a personal name only afterward.
2,625 in the 1910s
#613
Wilmer
2,612 in the 1910s
#614
Larry Larry is a boy's name, the short form of Lawrence, from a Roman name meaning of Laurentum.
2,612 in the 1910s
#615
Elmo
2,598 in the 1910s
#616
Moses Moses is explained in Exodus as drawn out of the water, but the name is more likely Egyptian — mose means born of, and it is the second half of Thutmose and Ramose, where the god's name sits in front.
2,591 in the 1910s
#621
Steven Steven is a boy's name from the Greek for crown or garland, and the phonetic respelling of Stephen.
2,531 in the 1910s
#623
Mario Mario is a boy's name from a Roman family name of uncertain meaning, and the video game character was named after a real landlord — Mario Segale, who owned the warehouse Nintendo rented in Seattle.
2,512 in the 1910s
#626
Anton
2,486 in the 1910s
#634
Neil Neil means champion or cloud, from Irish, and it traveled to Iceland with the Vikings and back to England with the Normans — so the English Neil arrived by way of Scandinavia and France.
2,437 in the 1910s
#635
Harrison Harrison is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Harry."
2,431 in the 1910s
#637
Morton
2,396 in the 1910s
#639
Clark Clark means a clergyman, and the job drifted — a clericus was in holy orders, but since the clergy were the ones who could write, the word slid across to mean anyone who kept records, which is what a clerk still is.
2,390 in the 1910s
#647
Thurman
2,349 in the 1910s
#649
Jesus Jesus is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is salvation."
2,341 in the 1910s
#651
Wade Wade means a river crossing, and there is a second Wade entirely — a Germanic sea giant from Old English legend whose story Chaucer refers to as though everyone knew it, and which is now lost.
2,336 in the 1910s
#653
Alphonse Alphonse means ready for battle, and it is Visigothic rather than French — the name came into Spain with the Germanic kingdom that ruled it before the Arabs, and reached French from there.
2,326 in the 1910s
#655
Earle
2,297 in the 1910s
#657
Elton
2,288 in the 1910s
#658
Gus
2,288 in the 1910s
#661
Maynard
2,273 in the 1910s
#662
Bruno Bruno is a boy's name from the Germanic word for brown, and it founded the Carthusians — the strictest order in the Western church, whose monks still live largely in silence.
2,272 in the 1910s
#664
Cyril Cyril means lord, and the man who carried it invented an alphabet — Cyrillic is named for the ninth-century missionary, though the script we call by his name was largely devised by his followers rather than by him.
2,247 in the 1910s
#665
Conrad Conrad set its American peak in the most recent year on record, 2025, on 770 births — a name birth records carry from 1880 reaching its high point a hundred and forty-five years later.
2,245 in the 1910s
#668
Forest
2,223 in the 1910s
#670
Joel Joel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin that joins two names for God, and the prophet's book supplied the line quoted at Pentecost.
2,220 in the 1910s
#671
Cleveland
2,219 in the 1910s
#672
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and it is rising — 511th in the United States, 1,186th in Canada, 1,324th in France and 1,714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name birth records carry from 1880.
2,218 in the 1910s
#673
Claud
2,217 in the 1910s
#678
Barney
2,204 in the 1910s
#679
Russel
2,181 in the 1910s
#682
Rocco Rocco is a boy's name of Germanic origin, generally read from a root meaning rest or repose.
2,157 in the 1910s
#683
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
2,155 in the 1910s
#684
Elvin
2,141 in the 1910s
#688
Carlos Carlos is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
2,115 in the 1910s

What Made a 1910s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1910 and 1919. 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.