1910s Baby Names

11,931 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

#481
Dominick Dominick means of the Lord, and it was given to children born on a Sunday — dies dominica is the Lord's day, and the name records the day of birth rather than a hope for the child.
3,915 in the 1910s
#482
Adelaide Adelaide means noble in kind, and it is one of only three names in this group birth records mark as rising — 230th in Canada, 289th in the United States, 344th in England and Wales, 416th in France and 618th in Scotland, and setting its English peak in the most recent year on record.
3,908 in the 1910s
#483
Elwood
3,908 in the 1910s
#484
Mack Mack means son of, and on its own it is only half a name — the Gaelic mac is a prefix, so using it alone is like naming a child Junior with nothing in front of it.
3,907 in the 1910s
#485
Beverly Beverly is a name from an English town meaning beaver stream, and it began as a boys' name before crossing decisively to girls.
3,902 in the 1910s
#486
Harriett
3,839 in the 1910s
#487
Owen Owen is a boy's name of Welsh origin, the anglicized form of Owain.
3,815 in the 1910s
#488
Roscoe
3,803 in the 1910s
#489
Clarice
3,800 in the 1910s
#490
Laurence Laurence is the one name on this site that changes sex at the Channel: it is a man's name in English and a woman's name in French.
3,799 in the 1910s
#491
Perry Perry means at the pear tree, from an English place name — and it is reviving, at 1,373rd in the United States and 1,681st in England and Wales.
3,781 in the 1910s
#492
Ross Ross means a headland or a promontory, from Gaelic, and Scotland ranks it 328th — its strongest market, ahead of Ireland at 347th and far ahead of the United States at 1,465th.
3,739 in the 1910s
#493
Myron Myron means myrrh, and the resin was worth its weight in gold — traded up the incense routes from southern Arabia, used for embalming, and one of the three gifts in Matthew.
3,711 in the 1910s
#494
Imogene
3,690 in the 1910s
#495
Amos
3,674 in the 1910s
#496
Tillie
3,666 in the 1910s
#497
Connie Connie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfast" or "constant."
3,660 in the 1910s
#498
Amanda Amanda is a girl's name from the Latin for she who must be loved, and one of the few names on this site that can be dated to a specific literary invention — Colley Cibber used it for a character in his 1696 play Love's Last Shift.
3,643 in the 1910s
#499
Letha
3,616 in the 1910s
#500
Charley Charley means free man, and it is one of the few mixed names on this site — 39 percent of recorded births are female, and it is rising.
3,609 in the 1910s
#501
Dominic Dominic is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of the Lord," from dominus.
3,608 in the 1910s
#502
Malcolm Malcolm means devotee of Columba, and it is one of only two rising names in this group — 168th in Canada, 272nd in the United States, 362nd in Scotland, 539th in Ireland, 1,333rd in England and Wales and 1,629th in France, and climbing on record rather than falling.
3,565 in the 1910s
#503
Loyd
3,556 in the 1910s
#504
Ted Ted is a boy's name that serves two unrelated names at once, and it exists because medieval English moved the n from "mine Edward."
3,551 in the 1910s
#505
Olivia Olivia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "olive tree," used as the feminine form of Oliver.
3,545 in the 1910s
#506
Gracie Gracie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "grace."
3,543 in the 1910s
#507
Natalie Natalie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "birthday of the Lord," from natalis.
3,533 in the 1910s
#508
Frankie Frankie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man" or "Frenchman."
3,526 in the 1910s
#509
Byron Byron means at the cattle sheds — a working place name that became shorthand for romantic poetry, which is a longer journey than most names make.
3,525 in the 1910s
#510
Freddie Freddie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "peaceful ruler."
3,482 in the 1910s
#511
Carmela
3,461 in the 1910s
#512
Neva
3,460 in the 1910s
#513
Cornelia
3,455 in the 1910s
#514
Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.
3,455 in the 1910s
#515
Gussie
3,445 in the 1910s
#516
Wendell Wendell names a people rather than a quality — the Wends were the Slavic populations of eastern Germany, so the name records who someone's neighbors thought they were rather than anything they did.
3,440 in the 1910s
#517
Myra Myra was invented by a poet — Fulke Greville coined it around 1580, probably by rearranging Mary, and every later meaning attached to it was supplied after the fact.
3,403 in the 1910s
#518
Annabelle Annabelle is a girl's name of disputed origin.
3,390 in the 1910s
#519
Josie Josie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Josephine, and so means "he will add," inherited from the Hebrew Yosef.
3,389 in the 1910s
#520
Alva
3,382 in the 1910s
#521
Priscilla Priscilla means ancient or venerable, and it is a diminutive — so the name literally reads as little old one, which was a mark of respect rather than an insult.
3,378 in the 1910s
#522
Sherman
3,377 in the 1910s
#523
Erwin
3,364 in the 1910s
#524
Eliza Eliza is a girl's name that began as a short form of Elizabeth, and so means "God is my oath," from the Hebrew Elisheva.
3,343 in the 1910s
#525
Helena Helena is a girl's name of Greek origin whose meaning is unresolved, and its saint is credited with finding the True Cross.
3,339 in the 1910s
#526
Madge
3,335 in the 1910s
#527
Murray Murray is a boy's name of Scottish origin from Moray, the northern province, whose name means "sea settlement."
3,320 in the 1910s
#528
Will Will means will-helmet, and the compound is stranger than it looks — the Germanic joins desire to a piece of armor, so the name reads as protection by determination.
3,320 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.