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

#176
Nancy Nancy is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace."
17,337 in the 1910s
#179
Emily Emily is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
17,086 in the 1910s
#180
Georgia Georgia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "farmer" or "worker of the earth," the feminine of George, from ge, earth, and ergon, work.
16,784 in the 1910s
#181
Fannie Fannie means Frenchwoman, shortened from Frances, and it left English-speaking use for reasons of slang rather than fashion — the word acquired a sense the name could not survive.
16,716 in the 1910s
#184
Kathleen Kathleen is a girl's name anglicizing the Irish Caitlín, a form of Catherine, and it inherits that name's genuinely unknown meaning.
16,606 in the 1910s
#185
Hattie Hattie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
16,487 in the 1910s
#186
Inez Inez means chaste, and the Spanish spelling hides a Greek original — Agnes became Inés because Spanish dropped the initial vowel sound, so the two look unrelated and are the same name.
16,442 in the 1910s
#187
Sophie Sophie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," the French form of Sophia.
16,207 in the 1910s
#189
Rosa Rosa is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
16,064 in the 1910s
#191
Lorraine Lorraine is a girl's name from the French region, whose own name means the kingdom of Lothair — a Frankish king's realm that was carved out of Charlemagne's empire and slowly disappeared.
15,870 in the 1910s
#192
Eunice Eunice means good victory, and she is named in the New Testament as Timothy's mother — one of very few women whose faith Paul credits by name, alongside her own mother Lois.
15,710 in the 1910s
#193
Hilda Hilda means battle, and it is the surviving fragment of longer Germanic names — Hildegard, Brunhild and Matilda all contain it, and the element outlived most of the compounds it belonged to.
15,707 in the 1910s
#196
Harriet Harriet is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
15,606 in the 1910s
#197
Norma Norma is a girl's name that appears to have been invented for an opera — Bellini's Norma of 1831 — and it was the birth name of Marilyn Monroe, who appears elsewhere in these pages under the name that replaced it.
15,543 in the 1910s
#199
Sara Sara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
15,432 in the 1910s
#200
Cora Cora is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "maiden," from kore.
15,385 in the 1910s
#201
Ada Ada is a girl's name with two origins. In Germanic it is a short form of names beginning with adal, noble; in Hebrew, Adah means "adornment" and belongs to two women in Genesis.
15,286 in the 1910s
#202
Geneva Geneva is not named after the Swiss city — it is a form of Genevieve, whose own meaning is unsettled, and the city's name comes from a Celtic word for a bend or estuary entirely separately.
15,110 in the 1910s
#204
Alberta Alberta means noble and bright, and a Canadian province carries it — Alberta was named for Queen Victoria's fourth daughter, whose full name was Louise Caroline Alberta.
14,650 in the 1910s
#205
Loretta Loretta comes from an Italian shrine, not from the laurel — Loreto is the town where the Holy House of Nazareth was said to have been carried by angels.
14,607 in the 1910s
#206
Mamie Mamie has no single parent — it shortens Mary, Margaret and Miriam alike, and Mary's own meaning has never been established, so the name inherits an unresolved question three ways.
14,584 in the 1910s
#209
Christine Christine is a girl's name from the Latin for a follower of Christ, the French form of Christina.
14,140 in the 1910s
#210
Dora Dora means gift, and it is the end of several names rather than a name in its own right — Theodora, Isidora and Dorothea all supply it, and Dorothy means the same thing with the halves reversed.
14,082 in the 1910s
#211
Shirley Shirley is a girl's name from an English place name meaning bright clearing, and it was a boys' name until Charlotte Brontë used it for a heroine in 1849.
13,998 in the 1910s
#212
Lula Lula has no single parent — it shortens Louise, Lucille and Tallulah alike, and our data marks it reviving, ranking 1306th in England and Wales against 1938th in the United States.
13,983 in the 1910s
#213
Estelle Estelle means star, and France and the United States rank it within 55 places of each other — 518th and 573rd — which is unusually close for a French name in an English-speaking market.
13,867 in the 1910s
#216
Audrey Audrey is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "noble strength," from Æthelthryth.
13,546 in the 1910s
#218
Verna Verna means springtime, from the Latin for spring — and our data marks it reviving, though from a low base at 3464th in the United States on a 1918 peak of 1,885.
13,304 in the 1910s
#220
Madeline Madeline is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee whose name comes from the Hebrew migdal, a tower.
13,042 in the 1910s
#224
Eileen Eileen is a girl's name anglicizing the Irish Eibhlín, and its meaning is genuinely unsettled — it may render Helen, or Evelyn, or a native Irish name.
12,718 in the 1910s
#227
Daisy Daisy is a girl's name of English origin naming the flower, and its meaning is unusually literal: daisy comes from the Old English dægesege, "day's eye," because the flower opens its petals at dawn and closes them at dusk.
12,536 in the 1910s
#229
Olive Olive is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the tree, whose name comes from oliva.
12,458 in the 1910s
#230
Sadie Sadie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Sarah, the Hebrew name meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
12,423 in the 1910s
#232
Naomi Naomi is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "pleasantness," from No'omi.
12,049 in the 1910s
#234
Lola Lola is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning "sorrows."
11,814 in the 1910s
#235
Muriel Muriel means bright sea, from Gaelic, and it reached English twice — once through Irish and Scottish settlement and once through Breton, carried back across the Channel by the Normans.
11,810 in the 1910s
#236
Flora Flora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "flower," the Roman goddess whose festival was among the least decorous in the calendar.
11,779 in the 1910s
#237
Lucile Lucile means light, and France ranks it 467th while the United States has it at 5006th — a French name that America had and lost, having peaked there in 1917.
11,778 in the 1910s
#238
Mable Mable means lovable, and the name lost its front end — it began as Amabel, and English wore the initial A away entirely, which is the same process that turned an ewt into a newt.
11,757 in the 1910s
#239
Olga Olga is a Norse name in Russian dress — Helga traveled east with the Varangians and became Olga, so the patron saint of Kyiv and Moscow carries a Scandinavian word meaning holy.
11,750 in the 1910s
#242
Susie Susie means lily, shortened from Susan, and the Hebrew word was borrowed from Egyptian — where it may have named a lotus rather than a lily, which changes the flower entirely.
11,591 in the 1910s
#244
Maggie Maggie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
11,525 in the 1910s
#245
Maria Maria is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the Latin and Greek form of Miryam.
11,430 in the 1910s
#248
Nora Nora is a girl's name that developed as a short form of longer names, chiefly Honora and Eleanor, and is now used independently.
11,173 in the 1910s
#250
Jeanette Jeanette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne.
11,145 in the 1910s
#251
Miriam Miriam is the origin of Mary, Maria, Marie, Maureen, Marion and Molly — the largest name family in Europe — and it still charts in all seven markets we track, with its top four inside 46 places of each other.
11,062 in the 1910s
#252
Erma Erma is the only name in this group recorded in a single market across its whole history — every one of its 55,187 births is American, and it charts nowhere else in any year we hold.
11,015 in the 1910s
#255
Dolores Dolores is a girl's name meaning sorrows — taken from a title of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, which counts seven specific griefs.
10,863 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.