1910s Baby Names

6,074 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

#1
Mary Mary is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning has never been settled.
480,009 in the 1910s
#5
Helen Helen is a girl's name from Greek whose meaning is not settled, though torch and shining are the usual readings.
248,717 in the 1910s
#7
Dorothy Dorothy is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God."
207,956 in the 1910s
#8
Margaret Margaret is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl," from margarites.
189,707 in the 1910s
#12
Ruth Ruth is a girl's name of Hebrew origin usually given as "companion" or "friend," though the derivation is not secure.
174,122 in the 1910s
#14
Mildred Mildred is a girl's name from Old English elements meaning gentle strength, and it is among the least fashionable names of the twentieth century — yet it is reviving, ninety years after its 1920 peak.
124,347 in the 1910s
#15
Anna Anna is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor," the Greek and Latin form of Hannah.
119,311 in the 1910s
#16
Elizabeth Elizabeth is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," from Elisheva, the name of Aaron's wife in the Book of Exodus.
117,074 in the 1910s
#18
Frances Frances is a girl's name meaning a Frank, or a free one, and the feminine of Francis.
106,323 in the 1910s
#19
Virginia Virginia is a girl's name from a Roman family name, and the American state was named before the name became common in America — both honoring Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.
94,522 in the 1910s
#20
Marie Marie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the French form of Mary, and the largest name in the birth records with more than 2.8 million births on record.
92,366 in the 1910s
#22
Evelyn Evelyn is a girl's name of English and French origin meaning "desired" or "wished for".
91,710 in the 1910s
#24
Alice Alice is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," arrived at by a long contraction of Adelaide.
86,117 in the 1910s
#25
Florence Florence is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "blossoming" or "flourishing."
81,759 in the 1910s
#29
Lillian Lillian is a girl's name usually explained as an elaboration of Lily, from the Latin lilium, and sometimes as a variant of Elizabeth by way of the medieval pet form Lilian.
76,158 in the 1910s
#31
Rose Rose is a girl's name of Latin origin naming the flower, from rosa.
74,965 in the 1910s
#34
Irene Irene is a girl's name from the Greek word for peace, and the name of the goddess who personified it.
69,162 in the 1910s
#36
Louise Louise is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the French feminine form of Louis.
68,302 in the 1910s
#38
Edna Edna is a girl's name from a Hebrew word meaning delight, and it shares its root with Eden.
67,106 in the 1910s
#40
Gladys Gladys is a girl's name from Welsh, usually taken as a form of Claudia — which would give it the meaning lame.
66,058 in the 1910s
#41
Catherine Catherine is a girl's name of Greek origin whose meaning is unknown — the familiar reading of pure is a later reshaping, not the original sense.
65,970 in the 1910s
#42
Ethel Ethel is a girl's name from an Old English word meaning noble, and it is not a name in its own right in that language — it is the first half of longer names like Ethelred, cut off and used alone.
63,949 in the 1910s
#43
Josephine Josephine is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," the French feminine form of Joseph.
61,513 in the 1910s
#44
Ruby Ruby is a girl's name of Latin origin naming the red gemstone, from ruber, meaning red.
60,812 in the 1910s
#45
Martha Martha is a girl's name of Aramaic origin meaning "lady" or "mistress of the house."
59,670 in the 1910s
#46
Grace Grace is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "favor" or "blessing," from gratia.
58,135 in the 1910s
#47
Hazel Hazel is a girl's name of English origin naming the hazel tree, from the Old English hæsel.
57,629 in the 1910s
#48
Thelma Thelma is a girl's name invented for a novel in 1887, and the Greek word it was probably built from means "will" or "volition."
57,284 in the 1910s
#50
Lucille Lucille is a girl's name from the Latin for light, given to children born at daybreak.
56,332 in the 1910s
#51
Edith Edith is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "prosperous in war."
56,193 in the 1910s
#52
Eleanor Eleanor is a girl's name that traces back to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the twelfth-century queen of France and later England, whose own name, Aliénor, is widely explained as "the other Aenor," distinguishing her from her mother, also named Aenor.
54,258 in the 1910s
#53
Doris Doris is a girl's name from Greek mythology, where she is a sea nymph and the mother of the fifty Nereids.
53,647 in the 1910s
#55
Annie Annie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor."
52,569 in the 1910s
#57
Pauline Pauline is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.
50,210 in the 1910s
#59
Gertrude Gertrude is a girl's name from Germanic elements meaning spear-strength, and its saint is patron of cats — a modern attribution that no medieval source supports.
49,700 in the 1910s
#61
Esther Esther is a girl's name usually connected to the Persian word for star, and possibly to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
49,367 in the 1910s
#66
Betty Betty is a girl's name that began as a short form of Elizabeth and is now used in its own right.
44,983 in the 1910s
#67
Beatrice Beatrice is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "she who brings happiness."
44,675 in the 1910s
#69
Marjorie Marjorie is a girl's name meaning pearl, an English form of Margaret whose modern spelling was pulled toward the herb marjoram by nothing more than a coincidence of sound.
44,541 in the 1910s
#70
Clara Clara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear," from clarus.
44,502 in the 1910s
#73
Emma Emma is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "whole" or "universal," from the element ermen, found in older names such as Ermintrude.
41,963 in the 1910s
#74
Bernice Bernice is a girl's name meaning bringer of victory, and it is the same name as Veronica — both descend from the Greek Berenike by different routes.
41,026 in the 1910s
#78
Bertha Bertha is a girl's name from a Germanic word meaning bright, and it was Charlemagne's mother's name.
40,250 in the 1910s
#79
Ann Ann is a girl's name from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning grace or favor, and the spelling without the final e.
39,613 in the 1910s
#80
Elsie Elsie is a girl's name that began as a Scottish short form of Elspeth, itself a Scottish form of Elizabeth.
39,471 in the 1910s
#81
Julia Julia is a girl's name of Latin origin, the feminine of the Roman family name Julius.
39,405 in the 1910s
#82
Agnes Agnes is a girl's name from the Greek for pure, and the reason its saint is shown with a lamb is a Latin pun — agnus, lamb, sounds like the Greek hagnos but is a completely different word.
39,354 in the 1910s
#84
Lois Lois is a girl's name that appears once in the New Testament, in a letter naming Timothy's grandmother, and its meaning has never been established.
38,676 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.