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

#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 our data marks 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
#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 our data marks it reviving, at 563rd in the United States and 1010th 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
#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 our data marks it reviving — 948th in the United States, 1386th in England and Wales, 1507th in Canada and 6569th 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
#337
Claire Claire is a girl's name of French origin meaning "clear" or "bright," from the Latin clarus.
7,116 in the 1910s
#339
Joan Joan is a girl's name, the medieval English feminine of John meaning God is gracious, and it was once as common as Mary.
7,094 in the 1910s
#340
Rosemary Rosemary is not Rose and Mary joined together — it is the herb, from a Latin phrase meaning dew of the sea.
7,079 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.