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

#549
Arline
3,135 in the 1910s
#552
Odessa
3,120 in the 1910s
#553
Nadine Nadine looks entirely French and is Russian underneath — it is Nadezhda, the ordinary Russian word for hope, borrowed into French and given a French ending.
3,095 in the 1910s
#555
Patsy Patsy serves both Patricia and Patrick, and it is 94 percent female in our records — the male use survives mainly in Ireland, where Patsy is still an ordinary man's name rather than a woman's name at all.
3,051 in the 1910s
#557
Lora Lora means from Laurentum, and the laurel is one step removed — the Roman town was named for its bay trees, and the personal name says which town you came from rather than which plant crowned you.
3,025 in the 1910s
#558
Augusta
3,025 in the 1910s
#559
Berniece
3,023 in the 1910s
#563
Claudia Claudia means lame, and it comes from one of Rome's most powerful families.
2,973 in the 1910s
#564
Rhoda
2,943 in the 1910s
#565
Janice Janice is a girl's name usually credited to a 1899 novel, though our records carry it from 1894 — five years before the book.
2,941 in the 1910s
#566
Bernadine
2,932 in the 1910s
#567
Alyce
2,904 in the 1910s
#568
Belle
2,901 in the 1910s
#569
Rosetta
2,892 in the 1910s
#571
Carmella
2,863 in the 1910s
#572
Katharine Katharine is the spelling closest to the Greek, and that Greek has never been explained — the pure gloss comes from a later association with katharos, clean, applied long after the name existed.
2,854 in the 1910s
#573
Rosella
2,847 in the 1910s
#574
Kate Kate is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Katherine whose meaning has never actually been established.
2,845 in the 1910s
#576
Aileen Aileen means hazel, most likely, and the shining gloss usually given for it comes from confusion with Helen — the Norman Aveline is the likelier parent, and it has nothing to do with light.
2,831 in the 1910s
#578
Leila Leila means night, from Arabic, and it is one of the most evenly spread names on this site — France 211th, the United States 259th, England and Wales 269th, Scotland 282nd and Ireland 339th, a spread of just 128 places.
2,830 in the 1910s
#579
Lou Lou is a girl's name in France, a short form of Louise and Louis meaning "famous warrior."
2,821 in the 1910s
#580
Gloria Gloria is a girl's name that is simply the Latin word for glory, taken unchanged.
2,818 in the 1910s
#583
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
2,795 in the 1910s
#589
Lenore
2,778 in the 1910s
#590
Corinne Corinne is a girl's name from the Greek for a maiden, and it was borne by a poet said to have beaten Pindar five times in competition.
2,777 in the 1910s
#592
Christina Christina is a girl's name from the Latin for a follower of Christ, and the fullest of the family that includes Christine and Kristina.
2,765 in the 1910s
#595
Concetta
2,748 in the 1910s
#599
Loraine
2,715 in the 1910s
#603
Aline Aline means noble, worn down from Adelaide through Adeline — three names that are the same word at three stages of erosion, and France ranks it 292nd on 185 births.
2,684 in the 1910s
#607
Stephanie Stephanie is a girl's name from the Greek for crown or garland, the feminine of Stephen.
2,673 in the 1910s
#608
Willa Willa is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute" or "will".
2,669 in the 1910s
#609
Maudie
2,659 in the 1910s
#611
Nola
2,630 in the 1910s
#617
Tessie
2,588 in the 1910s
#618
Pearlie
2,577 in the 1910s
#619
Ione
2,561 in the 1910s
#620
Johanna Johanna means God is gracious, and it heads one of the largest name families in Europe — Jane, Joan, Jean, Janet, Sinead and Siobhan are all the same name arriving by different national routes.
2,542 in the 1910s
#622
Iola
2,525 in the 1910s
#624
Sybil
2,509 in the 1910s
#625
Roxie
2,490 in the 1910s
#627
Leota
2,478 in the 1910s
#628
Kay Kay serves two unrelated sources — the initial of Katherine, and Sir Kay of Arthurian legend, who is Arthur's foster brother and one of the oldest figures in the whole cycle.
2,465 in the 1910s
#629
Erna
2,465 in the 1910s
#630
Hallie Hallie is a girl's name with more than one line.
2,461 in the 1910s
#633
Molly Molly is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a pet form of Mary whose meaning has never been settled — the candidates are "bitter" and "beloved."
2,447 in the 1910s
#636
Dolly
2,420 in the 1910s
#638
Linda Linda is a girl's name usually read as beautiful in Spanish or as a Germanic element meaning soft or tender.
2,395 in the 1910s
#640
Corine
2,389 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.