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

#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.
34,922 in the 1910s
#95
Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets.
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 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 it is 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 6,874th 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

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.