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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#721
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
1,998 in the 1910s
#722
Neal Neal has no agreed meaning — champion, cloud and passionate are all proposed for the Irish Niall and none is established.
1,998 in the 1910s
#723
Eli Eli is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "ascent" or "my God," depending on which Hebrew name it represents.
1,997 in the 1910s
#724
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
1,989 in the 1910s
#725
Tommy Tommy is a boy's name of Aramaic origin meaning "twin."
1,982 in the 1910s
#726
Yolanda Yolanda means violet, and the flower reaches it through a chain of respellings — the Greek Iolanthe became Violante in Italian by association with viola, and Spanish then rendered that form as the Yolanda we know.
1,979 in the 1910s
#727
Merrill
1,974 in the 1910s
#728
Elijah Elijah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God is Yahweh," from Eliyahu.
1,963 in the 1910s
#729
Christopher Christopher is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "bearer of Christ," from Christos and pherein, to carry.
1,960 in the 1910s
#730
Reginald Reginald means counsel-power, and England and Wales ranks it 229th on 217 births against 1,285th in the United States — one of the sharpest British-versus-American splits in this group.
1,929 in the 1910s
#731
Verda
1,924 in the 1910s
#732
Madelyn Madelyn is a girl's name and a modern American respelling of Madeline, which descends from Magdalene — meaning "of Magdala," a town on the Sea of Galilee.
1,924 in the 1910s
#733
Polly Polly is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a pet form of Mary whose meaning has never been settled.
1,924 in the 1910s
#734
Timothy Timothy is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "honoring God."
1,918 in the 1910s
#735
Cynthia Cynthia is a girl's name that began as a title for the moon goddess — it means she of Mount Cynthus, the peak on Delos where Artemis was said to have been born.
1,911 in the 1910s
#736
Armand Armand is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "army man," the French form of Herman, borne by the cardinal who built the centralized French state.
1,911 in the 1910s
#737
Ellsworth
1,908 in the 1910s
#738
Irwin
1,907 in the 1910s
#739
Stuart Stuart means steward, and the office was literally the sty warden — keeper of the pigs — which rose to run the royal household and then supplied the name of a dynasty.
1,903 in the 1910s
#740
Ned
1,877 in the 1910s
#741
Rubye
1,873 in the 1910s
#742
Randolph Randolph means shield-wolf, and the shield in it is specifically the rim — the Germanic rand names the edge of the shield rather than the whole thing, which is the part that met an enemy's blade.
1,857 in the 1910s
#743
Zelda
1,854 in the 1910s
#744
Leora
1,852 in the 1910s
#745
Hollis
1,852 in the 1910s
#746
Rae
1,852 in the 1910s
#747
Harriette
1,843 in the 1910s
#748
Pasquale
1,829 in the 1910s
#749
Louella
1,826 in the 1910s
#750
Vesta
1,814 in the 1910s
#751
Elda
1,807 in the 1910s
#752
Jannie
1,800 in the 1910s
#753
Junior Junior is a boy's name from the Latin for younger, used first as a suffix marking a son who shares his father's name and only later as a name in its own right.
1,800 in the 1910s
#754
Buster
1,798 in the 1910s
#755
Gretchen Gretchen means little pearl, and German uses her name for a kind of question — a Gretchenfrage is the awkward essential one you cannot dodge, after the question she puts to Faust about religion.
1,797 in the 1910s
#756
Roman Roman is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "citizen of Rome," from Romanus.
1,794 in the 1910s
#757
Stewart
1,793 in the 1910s
#758
Thaddeus
1,793 in the 1910s
#759
Delmar
1,790 in the 1910s
#760
Buford
1,785 in the 1910s
#761
Rodney Rodney is a boy's name from an English place name, and its rise as a given name follows a single admiral — George Rodney, who broke the French line at the Saintes in 1782.
1,780 in the 1910s
#762
Ward
1,780 in the 1910s
#763
Ester
1,778 in the 1910s
#764
Pat Pat is one of the most evenly divided names on this site — about 60 percent of recorded births are female, because it shortens both Patricia and Patrick and neither side ever won.
1,777 in the 1910s
#765
Levi Levi is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "joined" or "attached."
1,773 in the 1910s
#766
Mercedes Mercedes is a plural, and it means wages before it means mercies — the Latin merces is payment, and the Spanish title Our Lady of Mercies turned a commercial word into a devotional one.
1,773 in the 1910s
#767
Alpha
1,770 in the 1910s
#768
Ramon Ramon means protecting counsel, and both halves are Germanic — the Visigoths brought it to Iberia, so a name that reads as thoroughly Spanish is Gothic underneath, like Fernando and Alonzo.
1,764 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.