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

#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 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 it is reviving, ranking 1,306th in England and Wales against 1,938th 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 it is reviving, though from a low base at 3,464th 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 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 5,006th — 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
#246
Leslie Leslie is a Scottish place name turned surname turned given name, and it has crossed sexes: about 71 percent of recorded births are female, though the name began firmly male and remains so in Britain.
11,415 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, 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 on record.
11,015 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.