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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#241
Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.
11,670 in the 1910s
#242
Susie Susie means lily, shortened from Susan, and the Hebrew word was borrowed from Egyptian — where it may have named a lotus rather than a lily, which changes the flower entirely.
11,591 in the 1910s
#243
Homer Homer means hostage, which makes it the third pledge name in this group alongside Gage and Giselle — and the ancient tradition that the poet was blind may have been read backward out of a dialect word rather than recorded from life.
11,551 in the 1910s
#244
Maggie Maggie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
11,525 in the 1910s
#245
Maria Maria is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the Latin and Greek form of Miryam.
11,430 in the 1910s
#246
Leslie Leslie is a Scottish place name turned surname turned given name, and it has crossed sexes: about 71 percent of recorded births are female, though the name began firmly male and remains so in Britain.
11,415 in the 1910s
#247
Alexander Alexander is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," from alexein, to defend, and aner, man.
11,403 in the 1910s
#248
Nora Nora is a girl's name that developed as a short form of longer names, chiefly Honora and Eleanor, and is now used independently.
11,173 in the 1910s
#249
Virgil Virgil is misspelled and always has been — the poet's name was Vergilius, and medieval scribes changed the e to an i by association with virgo, which is how a Roman family name acquired a meaning it never had.
11,169 in the 1910s
#250
Jeanette Jeanette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne.
11,145 in the 1910s
#251
Miriam Miriam is the origin of Mary, Maria, Marie, Maureen, Marion and Molly — the largest name family in Europe — and it still charts in all seven markets, with its top four inside 46 places of each other.
11,062 in the 1910s
#252
Erma Erma is the only name in this group recorded in a single market across its whole history — every one of its 55,187 births is American, and it charts nowhere else in any year on record.
11,015 in the 1910s
#253
Max Max is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest."
10,896 in the 1910s
#254
Gilbert Gilbert is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning bright pledge, and it founded the only medieval religious order native to England.
10,867 in the 1910s
#255
Dolores Dolores is a girl's name meaning sorrows — taken from a title of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, which counts seven specific griefs.
10,863 in the 1910s
#256
Victoria Victoria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "victory."
10,790 in the 1910s
#257
Irving Irving names a Scottish river valley, and it reached American use largely through one writer — Washington Irving, who gave English both Rip Van Winkle and the nickname Gotham for New York.
10,752 in the 1910s
#258
Wanda Wanda is a girl's name from Polish, borne by a legendary queen who drowned herself in the Vistula rather than marry a German prince.
10,748 in the 1910s
#259
Janet Janet is a girl's name, a Scottish diminutive of Jane meaning God is gracious.
10,724 in the 1910s
#260
Lottie Lottie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
10,698 in the 1910s
#261
Caroline Caroline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man," the French feminine of Charles by way of the Latin Carolus.
10,603 in the 1910s
#262
Rachel Rachel is a girl's name from Hebrew meaning ewe, borne by Jacob's wife in Genesis.
10,526 in the 1910s
#263
Irma Irma means whole or complete, and it is the surviving fragment of much longer Germanic names — Irmgard and Irmintrud both begin with it, and only the first element outlasted them.
10,471 in the 1910s
#264
Winifred Winifred is two names that English collapsed into one — the Welsh Gwenfrewi and the Anglo-Saxon Winfrid, unrelated in every element, and birth records mark the result reviving with England setting its peak this year.
10,460 in the 1910s
#265
Roberta Roberta is a girl's name meaning bright fame, the feminine of Robert.
10,408 in the 1910s
#266
Henrietta Henrietta named a American state — Maryland was chartered for Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I, so a French princess's middle name sits on the map of the United States.
10,405 in the 1910s
#267
Hugh Hugh is a boy's name from a Germanic word for mind or spirit, brought to Britain by the Normans.
10,279 in the 1910s
#268
Nicholas Nicholas is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "victory of the people," from nike, victory, and laos, the people.
10,253 in the 1910s
#269
Julius Julius means downy-bearded, and the family claimed descent from Venus — the Julii traced themselves to Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is the genealogy Virgil wrote the Aeneid to dignify.
10,243 in the 1910s
#270
Ollie Ollie is a name of Norse origin meaning "ancestor's descendant."
10,190 in the 1910s
#271
Eula Eula means well-spoken, and the Greek behind it is precise — eu plus lalein, to speak well, so the name praises how someone talks rather than what they say or think.
9,941 in the 1910s
#272
Luther Luther means army of the people, and its weight comes from a surname rather than a saint — Martin Luther's family name became a given name across the Protestant world, and then across Black America.
9,828 in the 1910s
#273
Patricia Patricia is a girl's name from the Latin for noble or patrician, the feminine of Patrick.
9,726 in the 1910s
#274
Cleo Cleo is a name of Greek origin meaning "glory" or "fame."
9,716 in the 1910s
#275
Steve Steve is a boy's name, the short form of Steven or Stephen, meaning crown or garland.
9,671 in the 1910s
#276
Ben Ben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son," used both as a short form of Benjamin and as a name in its own right.
9,643 in the 1910s
#277
Hubert Hubert means bright mind, and its saint is the patron of hunters — Saint Hubertus, whose stag with a crucifix between its antlers is the emblem on every bottle of Jägermeister.
9,641 in the 1910s
#278
Rosie Rosie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
9,631 in the 1910s
#279
Anita Anita is a girl's name, the Spanish diminutive of Ana, meaning grace.
9,563 in the 1910s
#280
Rebecca Rebecca is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is unsettled, and the standard gloss involves a rope for tying cattle.
9,496 in the 1910s
#281
Della Della has no single parent — it shortens Adela, Delia and Adelaide alike, and it is reviving, at 563rd in the United States and 1,010th in Scotland.
9,481 in the 1910s
#282
Fern Fern seed was believed to make you invisible, and Shakespeare has a character say so — ferns produce spores rather than visible seeds, so the seed itself was thought to be unseeable.
9,386 in the 1910s
#283
Nettie Nettie is a suffix that became a name — it is the tail end of Antoinette, Jeanette and Annette, cut loose and used on its own, so it began as the part of a name that carried no meaning at all.
9,356 in the 1910s
#284
Sally Sally is a girl's name meaning princess, a pet form of Sarah reached by medieval rhyming.
9,338 in the 1910s
#285
Curtis Curtis is a boy's name from a Norman French nickname meaning courteous, and it is one of very few names that describes manners rather than birth, appearance or trade.
9,114 in the 1910s
#286
Lydia Lydia is a girl's name meaning "woman from Lydia," an ancient kingdom in what is now western Turkey.
9,025 in the 1910s
#287
Adeline Adeline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.
8,985 in the 1910s
#288
Carolyn Carolyn is a girl's name, an English elaboration of Caroline meaning free man through Charles.
8,955 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.