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 genuinely 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 our data marks it 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 6874th 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

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.