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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#641
Dessie
2,379 in the 1910s
#642
Ophelia Ophelia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "help" or "benefit."
2,377 in the 1910s
#643
Delores Delores means sorrows, and it is a Marian title rather than a wish — Our Lady of Sorrows, named for the seven griefs of the Virgin, which is why a name meaning pain was ever given.
2,375 in the 1910s
#644
Lilly Lilly is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, from lilium.
2,369 in the 1910s
#645
Iona Iona is a girl's name taken from the Hebridean island where Columba founded his monastery — and the island's name exists because a medieval scribe misread a letter.
2,362 in the 1910s
#646
Delia Delia means of Delos, and it is a title for Artemis rather than a name in itself — she was born on that island, so calling her Delia is like calling someone the Nazarene.
2,360 in the 1910s
#648
Maurine
2,347 in the 1910s
#652
Margery
2,329 in the 1910s
#654
Lelia
2,308 in the 1910s
#656
Bette
2,288 in the 1910s
#660
Clare Clare is the older English spelling and the one the Irish county carries, and its history is British and Irish rather than American — England, Scotland and Ireland all peaked far above the United States.
2,279 in the 1910s
#663
Gail Gail is a girl's name meaning my father rejoices, clipped from Abigail.
2,251 in the 1910s
#666
Wilhelmina
2,241 in the 1910s
#669
Birdie
2,220 in the 1910s
#674
Florine
2,216 in the 1910s
#675
Zella
2,214 in the 1910s
#676
Ramona Ramona means protecting counsel, and a novel made it — Helen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona in 1884 to expose the treatment of Native Californians, and readers took the romance and ignored the argument.
2,212 in the 1910s
#677
Mayme
2,208 in the 1910s
#681
Elisabeth Elisabeth is a girl's name meaning God is my oath, and the s-spelling is the older one — it follows the Greek and German, while the English z is a later change.
2,161 in the 1910s
#685
Oma
2,140 in the 1910s
#687
Dorthy
2,125 in the 1910s
#689
Wilda
2,106 in the 1910s
#692
Dixie Dixie names the American South and nobody knows why — the leading account is a French ten-dollar note printed dix in Louisiana, and the rival is the Mason-Dixon line.
2,087 in the 1910s
#693
Isabell
2,087 in the 1910s
#694
Catharine
2,086 in the 1910s
#695
Bernadette Bernadette is a girl's name meaning brave as a bear, and its bearer was a fourteen-year-old miller's daughter whose visions at Lourdes in 1858 turned a Pyrenean grotto into one of the most visited places on earth.
2,078 in the 1910s
#696
Mona Mona in Mona Lisa is not a name — it contracts ma donna, my lady, so the painting's title is closer to Madam Lisa than to anyone actually called Mona.
2,077 in the 1910s
#697
Alvina
2,075 in the 1910s
#698
Philomena
2,071 in the 1910s
#699
Reva
2,067 in the 1910s
#705
Isabella Isabella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a Spanish and Italian form of Elizabeth that developed through Occitan and Old Spanish in the medieval period.
2,046 in the 1910s
#707
Pansy
2,045 in the 1910s
#708
Judith Judith is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "woman of Judea," borne by the heroine who beheads Holofernes in the deuterocanonical book named for her.
2,044 in the 1910s
#710
Antonia Antonia has no known meaning, and the flower reading given everywhere is a Renaissance invention — humanists attached the Greek anthos to a Roman family name that has never been explained.
2,035 in the 1910s
#711
Joy Joy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning exactly what it says, taken from the English word.
2,028 in the 1910s
#712
Paula Paula is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.
2,027 in the 1910s
#713
Beth Beth is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a short form of Elizabeth, and the seven in the Hebrew is the same idea as the oath.
2,027 in the 1910s
#716
Nona
2,017 in the 1910s
#717
Althea
2,014 in the 1910s
#721
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
1,998 in the 1910s
#726
Yolanda Yolanda means violet, and the flower reaches it through a chain of respellings — the Greek Iolanthe became Violante in Italian by association with viola, and Spanish then rendered that form as the Yolanda we know.
1,979 in the 1910s
#731
Madelyn Madelyn is a girl's name and a modern American respelling of Madeline, which descends from Magdalene — meaning "of Magdala," a town on the Sea of Galilee.
1,924 in the 1910s
#732
Verda
1,924 in the 1910s
#733
Polly Polly is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a pet form of Mary whose meaning has never been settled.
1,924 in the 1910s
#736
Cynthia Cynthia is a girl's name that began as a title for the moon goddess — it means she of Mount Cynthus, the peak on Delos where Artemis was said to have been born.
1,911 in the 1910s
#741
Rubye
1,873 in the 1910s
#743
Zelda
1,854 in the 1910s
#744
Rae
1,852 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.