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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#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
#256
Victoria Victoria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "victory."
10,790 in the 1910s
#258
Wanda Wanda is a girl's name from Polish, borne by a legendary queen who drowned herself in the Vistula rather than marry a German prince.
10,748 in the 1910s
#259
Janet Janet is a girl's name, a Scottish diminutive of Jane meaning God is gracious.
10,724 in the 1910s
#260
Lottie Lottie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
10,698 in the 1910s
#261
Caroline Caroline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man," the French feminine of Charles by way of the Latin Carolus.
10,603 in the 1910s
#262
Rachel Rachel is a girl's name from Hebrew meaning ewe, borne by Jacob's wife in Genesis.
10,526 in the 1910s
#263
Irma Irma means whole or complete, and it is the surviving fragment of much longer Germanic names — Irmgard and Irmintrud both begin with it, and only the first element outlasted them.
10,471 in the 1910s
#264
Winifred Winifred is two names that English collapsed into one — the Welsh Gwenfrewi and the Anglo-Saxon Winfrid, unrelated in every element, and birth records mark the result reviving with England setting its peak this year.
10,460 in the 1910s
#265
Roberta Roberta is a girl's name meaning bright fame, the feminine of Robert.
10,408 in the 1910s
#266
Henrietta Henrietta named a American state — Maryland was chartered for Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I, so a French princess's middle name sits on the map of the United States.
10,405 in the 1910s
#271
Eula Eula means well-spoken, and the Greek behind it is precise — eu plus lalein, to speak well, so the name praises how someone talks rather than what they say or think.
9,941 in the 1910s
#273
Patricia Patricia is a girl's name from the Latin for noble or patrician, the feminine of Patrick.
9,726 in the 1910s
#274
Cleo Cleo is a name of Greek origin meaning "glory" or "fame."
9,716 in the 1910s
#278
Rosie Rosie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
9,631 in the 1910s
#279
Anita Anita is a girl's name, the Spanish diminutive of Ana, meaning grace.
9,563 in the 1910s
#280
Rebecca Rebecca is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is unsettled, and the standard gloss involves a rope for tying cattle.
9,496 in the 1910s
#281
Della Della has no single parent — it shortens Adela, Delia and Adelaide alike, and it is reviving, at 563rd in the United States and 1,010th in Scotland.
9,481 in the 1910s
#282
Fern Fern seed was believed to make you invisible, and Shakespeare has a character say so — ferns produce spores rather than visible seeds, so the seed itself was thought to be unseeable.
9,386 in the 1910s
#283
Nettie Nettie is a suffix that became a name — it is the tail end of Antoinette, Jeanette and Annette, cut loose and used on its own, so it began as the part of a name that carried no meaning at all.
9,356 in the 1910s
#284
Sally Sally is a girl's name meaning princess, a pet form of Sarah reached by medieval rhyming.
9,338 in the 1910s
#286
Lydia Lydia is a girl's name meaning "woman from Lydia," an ancient kingdom in what is now western Turkey.
9,025 in the 1910s
#287
Adeline Adeline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.
8,985 in the 1910s
#288
Carolyn Carolyn is a girl's name, an English elaboration of Caroline meaning free man through Charles.
8,955 in the 1910s
#289
Bonnie Bonnie is a girl's name of Scots origin meaning "pretty" or "fine."
8,835 in the 1910s
#290
Amelia Amelia is a girl's name most often explained as a blend of two older names: the Germanic Amalia, meaning "work" or "industrious," and the Latin Emilia, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
8,832 in the 1910s
#296
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
8,697 in the 1910s
#297
Goldie
8,680 in the 1910s
#299
Jeanne Jeanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the French feminine of Jean.
8,646 in the 1910s
#300
Elaine Elaine is a girl's name, the Old French form of Helen, whose meaning was never established.
8,582 in the 1910s
#303
Katie Katie is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Katherine whose meaning has never been settled.
8,436 in the 1910s
#305
Ora Ora has three unrelated sources — the Latin imperative meaning pray, the Hebrew for light, and an Albanian word for hour — and it is reviving across three markets.
8,307 in the 1910s
#306
Essie Essie shortens two names with nothing in common — Esther, whose root is probably Babylonian, and Estelle, which is the Latin for a star.
8,239 in the 1910s
#307
May May has three separate sources that English cannot tell apart — the month, the hawthorn blossom that opens in it, and a short form of Mary and Margaret.
8,217 in the 1910s
#308
Antoinette Antoinette means little Antoine, and the meaning usually given for the parent name — flower — is a false etymology.
8,216 in the 1910s
#310
Marcella Marcella means dedicated to Mars, and it is reviving — 948th in the United States, 1,386th in England and Wales, 1,507th in Canada and 6,569th in France, from a peak more than a century old.
8,123 in the 1910s
#311
Lorene Lorene reaches the laurel by the long way round — Laurentum was a town named for its bay trees, and the personal name says which town someone came from rather than which plant crowned them.
8,045 in the 1910s
#316
Isabel Isabel is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."
7,797 in the 1910s
#317
Arlene Arlene has no established origin at all — it appears in the nineteenth century with no traceable parent name, and the Irish pledge reading usually given for it belongs to a different name entirely.
7,786 in the 1910s
#318
Dorothea
7,750 in the 1910s
#319
Effie Effie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "well-spoken."
7,744 in the 1910s
#321
Jeannette Jeannette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne — and the -ette ending is doing the same work twice, since Jeanne is already a feminine of Jean.
7,719 in the 1910s
#322
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
7,703 in the 1910s
#328
Freda Freda means peace, and it is a fragment of several longer names — Winifred, Frederica and Alfreda all shorten to it, so which one a Freda descends from usually cannot be recovered.
7,458 in the 1910s
#330
Sallie Sallie means princess, and it reached English through a sound swap — Sarah became Sally the way Mary became Molly, with the r softening to an l in ordinary speech.
7,423 in the 1910s
#331
Regina Regina is the Latin word for a queen, taken unchanged, and it is still the legal abbreviation in British courts — every criminal case against a defendant is formally Regina versus the accused.
7,405 in the 1910s
#333
Isabelle Isabelle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."
7,255 in the 1910s
#334
Addie Addie shortens Adelaide and Adeline alike, and both descend from the Germanic word for noble — the same adal that sits inside Alice, Allison and Albert.
7,229 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.