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

#625
Roxie
2,490 in the 1910s
#626
Anton
2,486 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
#631
Clair
2,458 in the 1910s
#632
Monroe Monroe is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "mouth of the Roe" — a river in Ireland, not Scotland.
2,450 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
#634
Neil Neil means champion or cloud, from Irish, and it traveled to Iceland with the Vikings and back to England with the Normans — so the English Neil arrived by way of Scandinavia and France.
2,437 in the 1910s
#635
Harrison Harrison is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Harry."
2,431 in the 1910s
#636
Dolly
2,420 in the 1910s
#637
Morton
2,396 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
#639
Clark Clark means a clergyman, and the job drifted — a clericus was in holy orders, but since the clergy were the ones who could write, the word slid across to mean anyone who kept records, which is what a clerk still is.
2,390 in the 1910s
#640
Corine
2,389 in the 1910s
#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
#647
Thurman
2,349 in the 1910s
#648
Maurine
2,347 in the 1910s
#649
Jesus Jesus is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is salvation."
2,341 in the 1910s
#650
Guadalupe Guadalupe is half Arabic and half Latin — wadi, a valley or river, joined to a word for a wolf.
2,340 in the 1910s
#651
Wade Wade means a river crossing, and there is a second Wade entirely — a Germanic sea giant from Old English legend whose story Chaucer refers to as though everyone knew it, and which is now lost.
2,336 in the 1910s
#652
Margery
2,329 in the 1910s
#653
Alphonse Alphonse means ready for battle, and it is Visigothic rather than French — the name came into Spain with the Germanic kingdom that ruled it before the Arabs, and reached French from there.
2,326 in the 1910s
#654
Lelia
2,308 in the 1910s
#655
Earle
2,297 in the 1910s
#656
Bette
2,288 in the 1910s
#657
Gus
2,288 in the 1910s
#658
Elton
2,288 in the 1910s
#659
Beryl
2,282 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
#661
Maynard
2,273 in the 1910s
#662
Bruno Bruno is a boy's name from the Germanic word for brown, and it founded the Carthusians — the strictest order in the Western church, whose monks still live largely in silence.
2,272 in the 1910s
#663
Gail Gail is a girl's name meaning my father rejoices, clipped from Abigail.
2,251 in the 1910s
#664
Cyril Cyril means lord, and the man who carried it invented an alphabet — Cyrillic is named for the ninth-century missionary, though the script we call by his name was largely devised by his followers rather than by him.
2,247 in the 1910s
#665
Conrad Conrad set its American peak in the most recent year we hold, 2025, on 770 births — a name our records carry from 1880 reaching its high point a hundred and forty-five years later.
2,245 in the 1910s
#666
Wilhelmina
2,241 in the 1910s
#667
Dallas Dallas is the only rising name in this group — it peaked in 2015 and is still climbing, at 238th in the United States.
2,234 in the 1910s
#668
Forest
2,223 in the 1910s
#669
Birdie
2,220 in the 1910s
#670
Joel Joel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin that joins two names for God, and the prophet's book supplied the line quoted at Pentecost.
2,220 in the 1910s
#671
Cleveland
2,219 in the 1910s
#672
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and our data marks it rising — 511th in the United States, 1186th in Canada, 1324th in France and 1714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name our records carry from 1880.
2,218 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.