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

#145
Lester Lester means from Leicester, and the spelling is the honest one — Leicester has been pronounced LES-ter for centuries, so the surname simply wrote down what people had actually been saying to each other all along.
21,732 in the 1910s
#146
Floyd Floyd is the same name as Lloyd, and the F is a mistake that stuck — English had no way to say the Welsh double L, so it substituted the closest sound it had, and the substitution became a separate name.
21,698 in the 1910s
#147
Mae Mae is a girl's name in France, generally read as a form of Mae or as a feminine of the Breton Mahé.
21,634 in the 1910s
#148
Ellen Ellen is a girl's name of Greek origin, a medieval English form of Helen whose meaning has never been settled.
21,551 in the 1910s
#149
Wilma Wilma means resolute protection, and The Flintstones did nothing for it.
21,491 in the 1910s
#150
Leroy Leroy is a boy's name that is simply the French for the king, taken as one word.
21,388 in the 1910s
#151
Clifford Clifford is a boy's name from an English place name meaning a ford by a cliff — a river crossing below a steep bank.
21,247 in the 1910s
#152
Theodore Theodore is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God," formed from theos, meaning god, and doron, meaning gift.
21,204 in the 1910s
#153
Charlie Charlie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
20,972 in the 1910s
#154
Juanita Juanita is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, the Spanish diminutive of Juana.
20,953 in the 1910s
#155
Clyde Clyde took nothing from Bonnie and Clyde.
20,804 in the 1910s
#156
Opal Opal means the gem, and it is the only major stone whose name may come from Sanskrit — upala, a precious stone, reaching Greek and Latin through the trade routes rather than from a European root.
20,642 in the 1910s
#157
June June is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the month, which is named for the goddess Juno — the queen of the Roman gods and the protector of marriage and childbirth.
19,683 in the 1910s
#158
Lee Lee is a name from the Old English word for a woodland clearing, and it is one of the most productive elements in English place names — the ending of Ashley, Bradley, Shirley and Beverly.
19,263 in the 1910s
#159
Geraldine Geraldine was invented in a 1537 love poem — the Earl of Surrey coined it for Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, calling her the Fair Geraldine.
19,030 in the 1910s
#160
Beulah Beulah means married, and it is a place before it is a person — Isaiah calls the restored land Beulah, and Bunyan turned it into the country just short of heaven in Pilgrim's Progress.
18,949 in the 1910s
#161
Ray Ray is a boy's name that serves as a short form of Raymond and as the English word for a beam of light.
18,825 in the 1910s
#162
Velma Velma is an invented name with no root at all — it appears in nineteenth-century America built on the pattern of Selma and Thelma, and the Germanic derivations offered for it were attached afterwards.
18,743 in the 1910s
#163
Sam Sam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has heard," a short form of Samuel.
18,740 in the 1910s
#164
Woodrow
18,441 in the 1910s
#165
Theresa Theresa is a girl's name of uncertain meaning, the German and English spelling of Teresa.
18,375 in the 1910s
#166
Vincent Vincent is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "conquering," from vincere, to conquer.
18,374 in the 1910s
#167
Philip Philip is a boy's name from Greek elements meaning lover of horses.
18,224 in the 1910s
#168
Carrie Carrie is a girl's name, a pet form of Caroline meaning free man through Charles.
18,184 in the 1910s
#169
Marvin Marvin is a boy's name from the Welsh Merfyn, and the sea friend reading usually given for it is not supported — the Welsh elements point to marrow and eminent instead.
17,941 in the 1910s
#170
Phyllis Phyllis is a girl's name from the Greek for foliage, borne by a mythological princess who was turned into an almond tree.
17,924 in the 1910s
#171
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
17,911 in the 1910s
#172
Maxine Maxine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest," a feminine form of Maximus.
17,854 in the 1910s
#173
Cecil Cecil means blind, from a Roman family name, and the saint who made it famous is patron of music on the strength of one ambiguous line in her own account of her wedding day.
17,799 in the 1910s
#174
Milton Milton means the mill settlement, and there is a second and quite separate source meaning the middle settlement — two entirely different Old English place names that ended up producing exactly the same modern spelling.
17,625 in the 1910s
#175
Benjamin Benjamin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of the right hand," from Binyamin.
17,342 in the 1910s
#176
Nancy Nancy is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace."
17,337 in the 1910s
#177
Vernon Vernon is a Norman place name meaning a place of alders, from a Gaulish word — so a French town gave England a surname that America turned into a first name, three languages deep.
17,314 in the 1910s
#178
Victor Victor is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "conqueror."
17,254 in the 1910s
#179
Emily Emily is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
17,086 in the 1910s
#180
Georgia Georgia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "farmer" or "worker of the earth," the feminine of George, from ge, earth, and ergon, work.
16,784 in the 1910s
#181
Fannie Fannie means Frenchwoman, shortened from Frances, and it left English-speaking use for reasons of slang rather than fashion — the word acquired a sense the name could not survive.
16,716 in the 1910s
#182
Gerald Gerald is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning rule of the spear, and it gave Ireland one of its great Norman dynasties, the FitzGeralds.
16,617 in the 1910s
#183
Jesse Jesse is a name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is debated.
16,607 in the 1910s
#184
Kathleen Kathleen is a girl's name anglicizing the Irish Caitlín, a form of Catherine, and it inherits that name's genuinely unknown meaning.
16,606 in the 1910s
#185
Hattie Hattie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
16,487 in the 1910s
#186
Inez Inez means chaste, and the Spanish spelling hides a Greek original — Agnes became Inés because Spanish dropped the initial vowel sound, so the two look unrelated and are the same name.
16,442 in the 1910s
#187
Sophie Sophie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," the French form of Sophia.
16,207 in the 1910s
#188
Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.
16,193 in the 1910s
#189
Rosa Rosa is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
16,064 in the 1910s
#190
Johnnie Johnnie means God is gracious, a pet form of John.
15,918 in the 1910s
#191
Lorraine Lorraine is a girl's name from the French region, whose own name means the kingdom of Lothair — a Frankish king's realm that was carved out of Charlemagne's empire and slowly disappeared.
15,870 in the 1910s
#192
Eunice Eunice means good victory, and she is named in the New Testament as Timothy's mother — one of very few women whose faith Paul credits by name, alongside her own mother Lois.
15,710 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.