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

#802
Alfonso Alfonso completes a set on this site — Alphonse in French, Alonzo in Spanish and Italian, and Alfonso the Iberian dynastic form, all descending from one Visigothic compound.
1,649 in the 1910s
#803
Vern
1,648 in the 1910s
#808
Wilburn
1,623 in the 1910s
#809
Sterling Sterling is a unit of money that became a name, and the coin was probably named for a bird — the little star on early Norman pennies gives one account, and a starling stamped on them gives the other.
1,622 in the 1910s
#813
Weldon
1,602 in the 1910s
#816
Vito
1,596 in the 1910s
#817
Truman
1,595 in the 1910s
#819
Meyer
1,593 in the 1910s
#822
Duane Duane means the little dark one, from an Irish surname built on the word for black — and that same root also gives us Dublin, which means the black pool that the city originally grew up around.
1,591 in the 1910s
#824
Mathew Mathew drops a t from Matthew, and the doubled t was never in the Hebrew — it entered through the Greek and Latin spellings, so the shorter form is arguably closer to the original.
1,584 in the 1910s
#825
Miles Miles is a boy's name of disputed origin, usually connected to the Latin miles, meaning soldier.
1,583 in the 1910s
#833
Silas Silas is a boy's name generally understood as a Greek form of the Aramaic Seila, itself corresponding to the Hebrew Saul, meaning "asked for" or "prayed for."
1,553 in the 1910s
#837
Merlin
1,541 in the 1910s
#840
Jeff Jeff means peace, shortened from Geoffrey — but the first element of that compound is disputed between three different Germanic words, so only the peace half of the name is actually agreed on by the sources.
1,532 in the 1910s
#841
Dick
1,528 in the 1910s
#842
Norris
1,526 in the 1910s
#843
Sanford
1,522 in the 1910s
#846
Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.
1,515 in the 1910s
#851
Milford
1,487 in the 1910s
#858
Jackson Jackson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Jack."
1,453 in the 1910s
#859
Harris Harris is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Harry," a surname turned first name that has climbed to ninth in Scotland.
1,451 in the 1910s
#861
Theo Theo is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "god," from theos.
1,447 in the 1910s
#862
Winston Winston is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Wine's settlement", from an Old English personal name plus tun.
1,444 in the 1910s
#870
Hugo Hugo is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "mind" or "spirit."
1,412 in the 1910s
#871
Foster
1,411 in the 1910s
#872
Hiram
1,410 in the 1910s
#875
Freeman
1,404 in the 1910s
#878
Ambrose
1,401 in the 1910s
#881
Omer
1,398 in the 1910s
#884
Carmine
1,395 in the 1910s
#885
Dudley
1,393 in the 1910s
#887
Jimmy Jimmy is a boy's name, the pet form of James, meaning supplanter.
1,385 in the 1910s
#890
Milo Milo is a boy's name of disputed origin, arriving in England with the Normans alongside Miles.
1,378 in the 1910s
#891
Winfred
1,377 in the 1910s
#892
Gabriel Gabriel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," from Gavri'el.
1,376 in the 1910s
#894
Spencer Spencer is a name of Middle English origin meaning "steward" or "dispenser of provisions."
1,373 in the 1910s
#896
Aloysius
1,372 in the 1910s
#899
Isidore
1,357 in the 1910s
#900
Van
1,344 in the 1910s
#901
Luke Luke is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "man from Lucania," a region of southern Italy.
1,343 in the 1910s
#902
Odis
1,341 in the 1910s
#906
Lyman
1,336 in the 1910s
#913
Quentin Quentin is a boy's name meaning fifth — a Roman birth-order name, given to a fifth child or one born in the fifth month.
1,313 in the 1910s
#914
Eric Eric is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning "eternal ruler" or "sole ruler."
1,311 in the 1910s
#916
Newton
1,306 in the 1910s
#918
Bertram
1,299 in the 1910s
#920
Mervin
1,297 in the 1910s
#923
Scott Scott is a boy's name meaning a Scot, from the surname given to people from Scotland.
1,294 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.