1910s Baby Names

5,983 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

#85
Sarah Sarah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
38,244 in the 1910s
#88
Katherine Katherine is a girl's name whose meaning is not settled.
36,965 in the 1910s
#93
Eva Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life" or "living."
35,044 in the 1910s
#94
Ida Ida is a girl's name from a Germanic word for work or labor, and it charts in all seven markets we track.
34,922 in the 1910s
#95
Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets we track.
34,520 in the 1910s
#98
Bessie Bessie is a girl's name meaning God is my oath, a pet form of Elizabeth.
33,991 in the 1910s
#99
Anne Anne is a girl's name from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning favor or grace.
33,557 in the 1910s
#100
Viola Viola means violet, and it names the flower, the instrument and a Shakespeare heroine from the same Latin root.
33,157 in the 1910s
#102
Myrtle Myrtle means the evergreen shrub, and it was the plant of Aphrodite — carried by Greek and Roman brides long before the Victorians made it a name.
32,549 in the 1910s
#105
Nellie Nellie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "shining light."
30,968 in the 1910s
#106
Mabel Mabel is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lovable."
30,890 in the 1910s
#107
Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.
30,646 in the 1910s
#108
Kathryn Kathryn is a girl's name, the y-spelling of Katherine, and it inherits that name's genuinely unknown meaning.
29,280 in the 1910s
#110
Stella Stella is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "star."
28,586 in the 1910s
#111
Vera Vera is a girl's name with two origins that both work. In Russian it means "faith"; in Latin vera means "true" — and unusually for such a pair, the two senses reinforce rather than contradict each other.
28,368 in the 1910s
#113
Alma Alma is a girl's name with several competing origins: "nourishing" in Latin, "soul" in Spanish, and "young woman" in Hebrew.
27,859 in the 1910s
#114
Jane Jane is a girl's name from the Hebrew for God is gracious, the English feminine of John.
27,814 in the 1910s
#115
Minnie Minnie Mouse did not make Minnie popular.
27,588 in the 1910s
#118
Sylvia Sylvia is a girl's name from the Latin for a forest, and the mother of Rome's founders bore it — Rhea Silvia, who was made a Vestal Virgin so she could not produce heirs.
25,729 in the 1910s
#121
Ella Ella is a girl's name with two distinct origins. The Norman French line derives from the Germanic element ali, meaning other or foreign, while a Hebrew line gives Ella as a word for a terebinth tree.
25,002 in the 1910s
#123
Lillie Lillie is a girl's name from the flower, which has stood for purity in Christian art for so long that the association predates the name.
24,771 in the 1910s
#124
Vivian Vivian is a name of Latin origin meaning "alive" or "lively," from vivus.
24,115 in the 1910s
#126
Leona Leona means lioness, and our data marks it reviving across six markets — the United States 429th, France 556th, Scotland 631st, Ireland 705th and England and Wales 716th, all within 290 places.
23,897 in the 1910s
#127
Rita Rita is a girl's name meaning pearl, clipped from the end of Margarita rather than the front.
23,881 in the 1910s
#129
Barbara Barbara is a girl's name from the Greek for foreign or strange, the feminine of the word that gives us barbarian.
23,736 in the 1910s
#130
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
23,693 in the 1910s
#133
Violet Violet is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "purple," taken from viola, the Latin word for the purple flower.
23,203 in the 1910s
#134
Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
23,199 in the 1910s
#135
Jennie Jennie began as a Scottish pet form of Jean and only later attached to Jennifer, which is a Cornish name with no connection to it.
23,136 in the 1910s
#136
Genevieve Genevieve is a girl's name of Gaulish origin whose meaning is not settled.
22,865 in the 1910s
#138
Marguerite Marguerite is a girl's name meaning pearl, and it is also the French word for the daisy — so the name carries a flower and a gemstone at once.
22,684 in the 1910s
#139
Charlotte Charlotte is a girl's name of French origin meaning "free man," the feminine form of Charles, itself from the Germanic name Karl.
22,599 in the 1910s
#140
Marian Marian is a girl's name that either joins Mary and Ann or diminutives Mary alone — the sources disagree.
22,405 in the 1910s
#141
Mattie Mattie serves two entirely unrelated names — Martha, which is Aramaic for a lady, and Matilda, which is Germanic for might in battle.
22,380 in the 1910s
#142
Blanche Blanche means white, and its revival is entirely French — 252nd in France on 220 births against 6874th in the United States.
22,034 in the 1910s
#147
Mae Mae is a girl's name in France, generally read as a form of Mae or as a feminine of the Breton Mahé.
21,634 in the 1910s
#148
Ellen Ellen is a girl's name of Greek origin, a medieval English form of Helen whose meaning has never been settled.
21,551 in the 1910s
#149
Wilma Wilma means resolute protection, and The Flintstones did nothing for it.
21,491 in the 1910s
#154
Juanita Juanita is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, the Spanish diminutive of Juana.
20,953 in the 1910s
#156
Opal Opal means the gem, and it is the only major stone whose name may come from Sanskrit — upala, a precious stone, reaching Greek and Latin through the trade routes rather than from a European root.
20,642 in the 1910s
#157
June June is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the month, which is named for the goddess Juno — the queen of the Roman gods and the protector of marriage and childbirth.
19,683 in the 1910s
#159
Geraldine Geraldine was invented in a 1537 love poem — the Earl of Surrey coined it for Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, calling her the Fair Geraldine.
19,030 in the 1910s
#160
Beulah Beulah means married, and it is a place before it is a person — Isaiah calls the restored land Beulah, and Bunyan turned it into the country just short of heaven in Pilgrim's Progress.
18,949 in the 1910s
#162
Velma Velma is an invented name with no root at all — it appears in nineteenth-century America built on the pattern of Selma and Thelma, and the Germanic derivations offered for it were attached afterwards.
18,743 in the 1910s
#165
Theresa Theresa is a girl's name of uncertain meaning, the German and English spelling of Teresa.
18,375 in the 1910s
#168
Carrie Carrie is a girl's name, a pet form of Caroline meaning free man through Charles.
18,184 in the 1910s
#170
Phyllis Phyllis is a girl's name from the Greek for foliage, borne by a mythological princess who was turned into an almond tree.
17,924 in the 1910s
#172
Maxine Maxine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest," a feminine form of Maximus.
17,854 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.