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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#529
Dollie
3,317 in the 1910s
#530
Reuben Reuben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
3,279 in the 1910s
#531
Yvonne Yvonne is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
3,274 in the 1910s
#532
Aubrey Aubrey is a name of Germanic origin meaning "elf ruler."
3,273 in the 1910s
#533
Billy Billy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
3,263 in the 1910s
#534
Rex Rex means king, and it is the plain Latin nominative — which makes it the pair to Regis, the genitive meaning of the king.
3,253 in the 1910s
#535
Hester
3,249 in the 1910s
#536
Fredrick Fredrick is an American respelling that ranks higher in England and Wales than in the United States — 934th against 1,730th, which reverses the usual direction for a respelling.
3,248 in the 1910s
#537
Louie Louie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
3,247 in the 1910s
#538
Bettie
3,245 in the 1910s
#539
Lorena Lorena is a place before it is a person — Lorraine is the land of Lothar, a Frankish king whose kingdom was carved out of Charlemagne's empire and named after him directly.
3,242 in the 1910s
#540
Allan Allan has no settled meaning at all — handsome, little rock and a deer are all proposed for the Breton original, and the name reached England through Brittany rather than through Ireland or Scotland at all.
3,237 in the 1910s
#541
Troy Troy is a boy's name with two independent sources — an Irish surname meaning foot soldier, and the ancient city.
3,229 in the 1910s
#542
Austin Austin is a boy's name that began as a medieval English contraction of Augustine, meaning "venerable" or "majestic," from the Latin augustus.
3,216 in the 1910s
#543
Lessie
3,203 in the 1910s
#544
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
3,173 in the 1910s
#545
Avis
3,165 in the 1910s
#546
Callie Callie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful."
3,155 in the 1910s
#547
Cornelius
3,137 in the 1910s
#548
Juan Juan is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious."
3,137 in the 1910s
#549
Arline
3,135 in the 1910s
#550
Loren Loren means from Laurentum, a town rather than a plant — the laurel reading came second, and the town itself was probably named for its laurels, so the connection is real but runs the long way round.
3,134 in the 1910s
#551
Eldon
3,132 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
#554
Preston Preston means the priest's settlement — land held by the church rather than by a lord, which is why so many English places carry the name.
3,068 in the 1910s
#555
Patsy Patsy serves both Patricia and Patrick, and it is 94 percent female on record — 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
#556
Dewey
3,028 in the 1910s
#557
Augusta
3,025 in the 1910s
#558
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
#559
Berniece
3,023 in the 1910s
#560
Jess
3,006 in the 1910s
#561
Millard
2,992 in the 1910s
#562
Odell
2,984 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 it is on record 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
#570
Norbert Norbert means bright north, and the north in it is the direction rather than a place — Germanic naming used compass points as elements, which is rare in any other European naming tradition.
2,879 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 been established.
2,845 in the 1910s
#575
Carlton Carlton means the settlement of the free peasants, and the word for those peasants became an insult — ceorl gave English churl and churlish, so the name preserves a class that the language later turned against.
2,840 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

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.