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

#577
Lynn Lynn is a name from a Welsh and Gaelic word for a lake or a pool below a waterfall.
2,830 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
#581
Jasper Jasper is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer," from a root behind the title of a keeper of the treasury.
2,809 in the 1910s
#582
Boyd
2,803 in the 1910s
#583
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
2,795 in the 1910s
#584
Seymour
2,794 in the 1910s
#585
Bertie
2,791 in the 1910s
#586
Simon Simon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he has heard," borne by the apostle Peter before his renaming.
2,786 in the 1910s
#587
Roosevelt
2,780 in the 1910s
#588
Lenore
2,778 in the 1910s
#589
Hyman
2,778 in the 1910s
#590
Garland
2,777 in the 1910s
#591
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
#593
Ed
2,752 in the 1910s
#594
Burton
2,751 in the 1910s
#595
Concetta
2,748 in the 1910s
#596
Dave Dave ranks 2,217th in England and Wales and 2,469th in the United States, so the short form outranks its American peak market in a country that never recorded more than fifteen in a year.
2,730 in the 1910s
#597
Edmond Edmond means wealthy protector, and its saint was a king shot with arrows by Danes — Edmund of East Anglia was England's patron for three centuries before George replaced him.
2,727 in the 1910s
#598
Grant Grant means tall or large, from a Norman French nickname — and it has nothing to do with granting or giving, which is a different word that arrived in English by a separate route.
2,718 in the 1910s
#599
Loraine
2,715 in the 1910s
#600
Bob Bob comes from Robert, and the B is not a corruption but a system — medieval English made pet names by rhyming, which is why Rob gave Bob, Will gave Bill and Rick gave Dick.
2,700 in the 1910s
#601
Kermit
2,697 in the 1910s
#602
Dwight Dwight descends from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine — through the medieval woman's name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, which is an unusually indirect route for a masculine surname.
2,691 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
#604
Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.
2,681 in the 1910s
#605
Solomon Solomon means peace, and it charts in all seven markets — the same Hebrew shalom behind the Arabic Suleiman, so one name covers the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions at once.
2,680 in the 1910s
#606
Jake Jake is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," a short form of Jacob that became a name in its own right.
2,680 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
#610
Mitchell Mitchell is a boy's name from a medieval English form of Michael, meaning who is like God — though a second and quite separate source exists from an old word simply meaning big.
2,638 in the 1910s
#611
Nola
2,630 in the 1910s
#612
Emanuel Emanuel began as a sign rather than a name — Isaiah tells Ahaz that a child will be called God with us as proof of a prophecy, and the phrase became a personal name only afterward.
2,625 in the 1910s
#613
Wilmer
2,612 in the 1910s
#614
Larry Larry is a boy's name, the short form of Lawrence, from a Roman name meaning of Laurentum.
2,612 in the 1910s
#615
Elmo
2,598 in the 1910s
#616
Moses Moses is explained in Exodus as drawn out of the water, but the name is more likely Egyptian — mose means born of, and it is the second half of Thutmose and Ramose, where the god's name sits in front.
2,591 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
#621
Steven Steven is a boy's name from the Greek for crown or garland, and the phonetic respelling of Stephen.
2,531 in the 1910s
#622
Iola
2,525 in the 1910s
#623
Mario Mario is a boy's name from a Roman family name of uncertain meaning, and the video game character was named after a real landlord — Mario Segale, who owned the warehouse Nintendo rented in Seattle.
2,512 in the 1910s
#624
Sybil
2,509 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.