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

#97
Herbert Herbert is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning bright army.
34,003 in the 1910s
#98
Bessie Bessie is a girl's name meaning God is my oath, a pet form of Elizabeth.
33,991 in the 1910s
#99
Anne Anne is a girl's name from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning favor or grace.
33,557 in the 1910s
#100
Viola Viola means violet, and it names the flower, the instrument and a Shakespeare heroine from the same Latin root.
33,157 in the 1910s
#101
Alfred Alfred is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "elf counsel."
32,783 in the 1910s
#102
Myrtle Myrtle means the evergreen shrub, and it was the plant of Aphrodite — carried by Greek and Roman brides long before the Victorians made it a name.
32,549 in the 1910s
#103
Leonard Leonard is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "lion-strong," and its saint is the patron of prisoners and of women in labor.
32,025 in the 1910s
#104
Michael Michael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "who is like God?" — a rhetorical question expecting the answer that no one is.
31,008 in the 1910s
#105
Nellie Nellie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "shining light."
30,968 in the 1910s
#106
Mabel Mabel is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lovable."
30,890 in the 1910s
#107
Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.
30,646 in the 1910s
#108
Kathryn Kathryn is a girl's name, the y-spelling of Katherine, and it inherits that name's unknown meaning.
29,280 in the 1910s
#109
Elmer Elmer means noble and famous, and its American popularity is traceable to two brothers — the Ebenezer and Jonathan Elmer who signed early revolutionary documents, after whom patriotic families went on to name sons.
28,957 in the 1910s
#110
Stella Stella is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "star."
28,586 in the 1910s
#111
Vera Vera is a girl's name with two origins that both work. In Russian it means "faith"; in Latin vera means "true" — and unusually for such a pair, the two senses reinforce rather than contradict each other.
28,368 in the 1910s
#112
Andrew Andrew is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," from andreios, from aner, a man.
28,281 in the 1910s
#113
Alma Alma is a girl's name with several competing origins: "nourishing" in Latin, "soul" in Spanish, and "young woman" in Hebrew.
27,859 in the 1910s
#114
Jane Jane is a girl's name from the Hebrew for God is gracious, the English feminine of John.
27,814 in the 1910s
#115
Minnie Minnie Mouse did not make Minnie popular.
27,588 in the 1910s
#116
Leo Leo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lion."
27,050 in the 1910s
#117
Bernard Bernard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave as a bear.
25,748 in the 1910s
#118
Sylvia Sylvia is a girl's name from the Latin for a forest, and the mother of Rome's founders bore it — Rhea Silvia, who was made a Vestal Virgin so she could not produce heirs.
25,729 in the 1910s
#119
Norman Norman means a Northman — a Viking.
25,184 in the 1910s
#120
Peter Peter is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "rock."
25,039 in the 1910s
#121
Ella Ella is a girl's name with two distinct origins. The Norman French line derives from the Germanic element ali, meaning other or foreign, while a Hebrew line gives Ella as a word for a terebinth tree.
25,002 in the 1910s
#122
Russell Russell is a boy's name from a Norman nickname meaning little red, given to someone red-haired or ruddy.
24,984 in the 1910s
#123
Lillie Lillie is a girl's name from the flower, which has stood for purity in Christian art for so long that the association predates the name.
24,771 in the 1910s
#124
Vivian Vivian is a name of Latin origin meaning "alive" or "lively," from vivus.
24,115 in the 1910s
#125
Daniel Daniel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my judge," from Daniyyel.
24,066 in the 1910s
#126
Leona Leona means lioness, and it is reviving across six markets — the United States 429th, France 556th, Scotland 631st, Ireland 705th and England and Wales 716th, all within 290 places.
23,897 in the 1910s
#127
Rita Rita is a girl's name meaning pearl, clipped from the end of Margarita rather than the front.
23,881 in the 1910s
#128
Edwin Edwin is a boy's name from Old English meaning rich friend, borne by a Northumbrian king whose fortress may have given Edinburgh its name.
23,815 in the 1910s
#129
Barbara Barbara is a girl's name from the Greek for foreign or strange, the feminine of the word that gives us barbarian.
23,736 in the 1910s
#130
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
23,693 in the 1910s
#131
Chester Chester is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "fortress" or "walled camp."
23,673 in the 1910s
#132
Frederick Frederick is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "peaceful ruler."
23,608 in the 1910s
#133
Violet Violet is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "purple," taken from viola, the Latin word for the purple flower.
23,203 in the 1910s
#134
Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
23,199 in the 1910s
#135
Jennie Jennie began as a Scottish pet form of Jean and only later attached to Jennifer, which is a Cornish name with no connection to it.
23,136 in the 1910s
#136
Genevieve Genevieve is a girl's name of Gaulish origin whose meaning is not settled.
22,865 in the 1910s
#137
Herman Herman means army man, and the German national hero Hermann is a Latin scribe's version of a Cheruscan name we cannot now recover — Arminius, the chief who destroyed three Roman legions in AD 9.
22,716 in the 1910s
#138
Marguerite Marguerite is a girl's name meaning pearl, and it is also the French word for the daisy — so the name carries a flower and a gemstone at once.
22,684 in the 1910s
#139
Charlotte Charlotte is a girl's name of French origin meaning "free man," the feminine form of Charles, itself from the Germanic name Karl.
22,599 in the 1910s
#140
Marian Marian is a girl's name that either joins Mary and Ann or diminutives Mary alone — the sources disagree.
22,405 in the 1910s
#141
Mattie Mattie serves two entirely unrelated names — Martha, which is Aramaic for a lady, and Matilda, which is Germanic for might in battle.
22,380 in the 1910s
#142
Blanche Blanche means white, and its revival is entirely French — 252nd in France on 220 births against 6,874th in the United States.
22,034 in the 1910s
#143
Melvin Melvin is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, and the gentle chieftain reading usually given for it is an invention — the source is a Norman family who took their name from Malleville in France.
21,943 in the 1910s
#144
Lloyd Lloyd is a boy's name from the Welsh word for gray, and the double L is a genuine Welsh consonant that English has no letter for.
21,918 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.