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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#289
Bonnie Bonnie is a girl's name of Scots origin meaning "pretty" or "fine."
8,835 in the 1910s
#290
Amelia Amelia is a girl's name most often explained as a blend of two older names: the Germanic Amalia, meaning "work" or "industrious," and the Latin Emilia, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
8,832 in the 1910s
#291
Roland Roland is a boy's name meaning famous land, and its bearer is the hero of France's national epic — a knight who dies at Roncevaux because he is too proud to blow his horn for help.
8,827 in the 1910s
#292
Wallace Wallace means foreigner, and the irony is complete — it is the Anglo-Saxon word for the Britons who were there first, so Scotland's national hero carries a name meaning outsider in his own country.
8,763 in the 1910s
#293
Oliver Oliver is a boy's name that entered England with the Normans and has a disputed origin.
8,736 in the 1910s
#294
Glen Glen means a narrow valley, and it is one of very few Gaelic words that English borrowed wholesale rather than adapting to its own sounds.
8,700 in the 1910s
#295
Jacob Jacob is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter" or "holder of the heel," from Ya'aqov.
8,699 in the 1910s
#296
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
8,697 in the 1910s
#297
Goldie
8,680 in the 1910s
#298
Dale Dale is a name from the Old English word for a valley, and like Craig and Heather it is a plain landscape noun rather than a compound.
8,677 in the 1910s
#299
Jeanne Jeanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the French feminine of Jean.
8,646 in the 1910s
#300
Elaine Elaine is a girl's name, the Old French form of Helen, whose meaning was never established.
8,582 in the 1910s
#301
Horace Horace has no reliable meaning — the Roman family name Horatius resists derivation, and France ranks it 2,765th against the United States at 6,218th, so the poet's name is now used more readily in French than in English.
8,512 in the 1910s
#302
Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.
8,453 in the 1910s
#303
Katie Katie is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Katherine whose meaning has never been settled.
8,436 in the 1910s
#304
Manuel Manuel is a boy's name meaning God is with us, the Spanish short form of Emmanuel.
8,395 in the 1910s
#305
Ora Ora has three unrelated sources — the Latin imperative meaning pray, the Hebrew for light, and an Albanian word for hour — and it is reviving across three markets.
8,307 in the 1910s
#306
Essie Essie shortens two names with nothing in common — Esther, whose root is probably Babylonian, and Estelle, which is the Latin for a star.
8,239 in the 1910s
#307
May May has three separate sources that English cannot tell apart — the month, the hawthorn blossom that opens in it, and a short form of Mary and Margaret.
8,217 in the 1910s
#308
Antoinette Antoinette means little Antoine, and the meaning usually given for the parent name — flower — is a false etymology.
8,216 in the 1910s
#309
Jimmie Jimmie means supplanter, shortened from James, and about 17 percent of recorded births are female — a much higher share than most nickname-names of this shape, which usually resolve firmly to one side or the other.
8,175 in the 1910s
#310
Marcella Marcella means dedicated to Mars, and it is reviving — 948th in the United States, 1,386th in England and Wales, 1,507th in Canada and 6,569th in France, from a peak more than a century old.
8,123 in the 1910s
#311
Lorene Lorene reaches the laurel by the long way round — Laurentum was a town named for its bay trees, and the personal name says which town someone came from rather than which plant crowned them.
8,045 in the 1910s
#312
Franklin Franklin means a freeholder — a man who owned his land but held no noble rank, a specific medieval class.
8,032 in the 1910s
#313
Mike Mike is a boy's name, the short form of Michael, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.
7,957 in the 1910s
#314
Orville
7,942 in the 1910s
#315
Alex Alex is a name of Greek origin meaning "defender of mankind."
7,910 in the 1910s
#316
Isabel Isabel is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."
7,797 in the 1910s
#317
Arlene Arlene has no established origin at all — it appears in the nineteenth century with no traceable parent name, and the Irish pledge reading usually given for it belongs to a different name entirely.
7,786 in the 1910s
#318
Dorothea
7,750 in the 1910s
#319
Effie Effie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "well-spoken."
7,744 in the 1910s
#320
Tom Tom is a boy's name of Aramaic origin meaning "twin," a short form of Thomas used as a full name across Europe.
7,725 in the 1910s
#321
Jeannette Jeannette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne — and the -ette ending is doing the same work twice, since Jeanne is already a feminine of Jean.
7,719 in the 1910s
#322
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
7,703 in the 1910s
#323
Wesley Wesley is a boy's name of English origin meaning "western meadow," from the Old English west and leah.
7,687 in the 1910s
#324
Tony Tony is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, whose meaning has never been established.
7,565 in the 1910s
#325
Willis Willis means son of Will, and the Will behind it is William — a name so common in medieval England that its diminutives generated a whole family of surnames, of which this is one.
7,495 in the 1910s
#326
Jerome Jerome is a boy's name meaning sacred name, and it belongs to the scholar who translated the Bible into Latin — the version Western Europe read for over a thousand years.
7,479 in the 1910s
#327
Merle Merle means blackbird, and it is one of the mixed names on this site — 33 percent of recorded births are female, and it is reviving.
7,465 in the 1910s
#328
Freda Freda means peace, and it is a fragment of several longer names — Winifred, Frederica and Alfreda all shorten to it, so which one a Freda descends from usually cannot be recovered.
7,458 in the 1910s
#329
Edmund Edmund was England's patron saint before George — Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia, was killed by a Viking army in 869 and held that position for some three hundred years before a crusader saint displaced him.
7,437 in the 1910s
#330
Sallie Sallie means princess, and it reached English through a sound swap — Sarah became Sally the way Mary became Molly, with the r softening to an l in ordinary speech.
7,423 in the 1910s
#331
Regina Regina is the Latin word for a queen, taken unchanged, and it is still the legal abbreviation in British courts — every criminal case against a defendant is formally Regina versus the accused.
7,405 in the 1910s
#332
Jerry Jerry is a name that serves as the short form of at least three unrelated names — Jeremiah from Hebrew, Gerald and Gerard from Germanic — so its meaning depends entirely on which one a family had in mind.
7,273 in the 1910s
#333
Isabelle Isabelle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."
7,255 in the 1910s
#334
Addie Addie shortens Adelaide and Adeline alike, and both descend from the Germanic word for noble — the same adal that sits inside Alice, Allison and Albert.
7,229 in the 1910s
#335
Nathan Nathan is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he gave," from Natan.
7,144 in the 1910s
#336
Archie Archie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "genuine and bold."
7,129 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.