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

#673
Claud
2,217 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
#678
Barney
2,204 in the 1910s
#679
Russel
2,181 in the 1910s
#680
Sol Sol is a unisex name meaning "sun," from Latin and Spanish sol and Old Norse sól.
2,162 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
#682
Rocco Rocco is a boy's name of Germanic origin, generally read from a root meaning rest or repose.
2,157 in the 1910s
#683
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
2,155 in the 1910s
#684
Elvin
2,141 in the 1910s
#685
Oma
2,140 in the 1910s
#686
Bobbie Bobbie is 83 percent female on record and England and Wales ranks it 523rd on 110 births — far above the United States at 2,072nd, reversing what an American nickname-name would usually do.
2,130 in the 1910s
#687
Dorthy
2,125 in the 1910s
#688
Carlos Carlos is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
2,115 in the 1910s
#689
Wilda
2,106 in the 1910s
#690
Abe
2,099 in the 1910s
#691
Doyle
2,094 in the 1910s
#692
Isabell
2,087 in the 1910s
#693
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
#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 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
#700
Emery Emery is a name of Germanic origin, from Emmerich, generally analyzed as combining elements meaning work or power with ric, meaning ruler.
2,058 in the 1910s
#701
Marcus Marcus is a boy's name of Latin origin most likely meaning "of Mars," and it was one of only about eighteen first names Roman men used.
2,056 in the 1910s
#702
Garnet
2,055 in the 1910s
#703
Georgie Georgie is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "farmer," a diminutive of George and Georgia alike.
2,055 in the 1910s
#704
Booker
2,051 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
#706
Isadore
2,045 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
#709
Robbie Robbie is a unisex name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame," a diminutive of Robert.
2,038 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
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
#713
Paula Paula is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.
2,027 in the 1910s
#714
Alan Alan is a boy's name of Breton origin whose meaning has never been established.
2,020 in the 1910s
#715
Sammie
2,019 in the 1910s
#716
Nona
2,017 in the 1910s
#717
Althea
2,014 in the 1910s
#718
Adrian Adrian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Hadria," a town in northern Italy that also gave its name to the Adriatic Sea.
2,012 in the 1910s
#719
Harlan
2,012 in the 1910s
#720
Orval
2,009 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.