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

#385
Ola
5,910 in the 1910s
#386
Jim Jim is a boy's name meaning supplanter, shortened from James — which is the same name as Jacob, split into two by Latin.
5,901 in the 1910s
#387
Carmen Carmen has two unrelated sources — the Latin word for a song, and a Spanish Marian title from Mount Carmel in Israel.
5,867 in the 1910s
#388
Selma Selma may have been invented by a forger — the name appears in Macpherson's Ossian poems of the 1760s, which he presented as ancient Gaelic epic and largely wrote himself.
5,863 in the 1910s
#389
Lyle Lyle is a boy's name from the Norman French for "the island," and the l at the front is the definite article rather than part of the word.
5,836 in the 1910s
#390
Mollie Mollie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a diminutive of Mary reached through a chain of medieval sound shifts.
5,789 in the 1910s
#391
Don Don is a boy's name shortened from Donald, meaning world ruler.
5,763 in the 1910s
#392
Calvin Calvin is a boy's name of French origin meaning "little bald one," from the Latin calvus, bald.
5,744 in the 1910s
#393
Cecilia Cecilia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caecilius, which derives from caecus, meaning blind.
5,705 in the 1910s
#394
Clayton Clayton means the settlement on clay, from an English place name that describes the ground it stood on.
5,683 in the 1910s
#395
Nell Nell is a girl's name that reached its modern form through a medieval habit of mishearing, from "mine Ellen" run together.
5,651 in the 1910s
#396
Bruce Bruce is a boy's name from a Norman place name, and Scotland's most famous king carried it as an import — the Bruces came from Normandy, not from Scotland.
5,648 in the 1910s
#397
Marshall Marshall began as a stable hand — the word meant a horse servant, and it climbed to become the highest rank in several armies.
5,627 in the 1910s
#398
Annette Annette is a girl's name meaning grace, a French diminutive of Anne.
5,595 in the 1910s
#399
Otto Otto is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "wealth" or "fortune."
5,593 in the 1910s
#400
Lila Lila is a girl's name with two unrelated origins: the Arabic layla, meaning "night," and the Sanskrit līlā, meaning "divine play" — a concept in Hindu philosophy for creation as a form of play.
5,567 in the 1910s
#401
Sylvester Sylvester means of the woods, and a pope carried it into the calendar — Sylvester I died on 31 December, which is why New Year's Eve is still called Silvester across much of Europe.
5,542 in the 1910s
#402
Angela Angela is a girl's name from the Greek for messenger, the word that also gives us angel.
5,523 in the 1910s
#403
Ina
5,474 in the 1910s
#404
Johnie
5,376 in the 1910s
#405
Clinton Clinton means the settlement on the hill, from an English place name — and the two American presidents who carried it did so by adoption and by surname, not by descent from the place.
5,320 in the 1910s
#406
Janie Janie means God is gracious, shortened from Jane — and Jane is the English feminine of John, which makes it part of the largest name family in Europe by a considerable margin.
5,319 in the 1910s
#407
Ronald Ronald is a boy's name from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr, meaning ruler's counsel, brought to Scotland by Norse settlement.
5,306 in the 1910s
#408
Matilda Matilda is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
5,293 in the 1910s
#409
Wilbert Wilbert means bright will, and it is one of a small set of names joining desire to brightness — the same beorht that ends Albert, Robert and Gilbert, on a first element meaning wanting something.
5,285 in the 1910s
#410
Delbert Delbert is recorded in one country and nowhere else — every one of its 47,056 births is American, with no births in any other market in any year on record, which is rare even among American coinages.
5,270 in the 1910s
#411
Irvin Irvin names a Scottish river valley, and the green water reading describes the water rather than the banks — Brittonic river names usually record color or behavior, not the land beside them.
5,264 in the 1910s
#412
Sophia Sophia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," taken directly from the Greek word sophía.
5,242 in the 1910s
#413
Ernestine Ernestine is the feminine of the same Germanic word as Earnest in this group — eornost, the vigor of a fight.
5,217 in the 1910s
#414
Teresa Teresa is a girl's name whose meaning is uncertain, though harvester is the usual reading.
5,199 in the 1910s
#415
Phillip Phillip is a boy's name meaning lover of horses, the doubled-l spelling of Philip.
5,146 in the 1910s
#416
Estella Estella means star, and Dickens chose the name deliberately — Great Expectations gives it to a girl raised to be beautiful and unreachable, which is what a star is.
5,103 in the 1910s
#417
Lonnie Lonnie shortens Alonzo and Alphonso, meaning noble and ready — and the Germanic original reached Spain with the Visigoths, so a name that reads as American South is Gothic by descent.
5,095 in the 1910s
#418
Reba
5,094 in the 1910s
#419
Ervin
5,029 in the 1910s
#420
Flossie
5,011 in the 1910s
#421
Wilfred Wilfred is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "desiring peace."
5,010 in the 1910s
#422
Nannie
5,007 in the 1910s
#423
Elbert
4,996 in the 1910s
#424
Forrest Forrest is one of only two names in this group birth records mark as rising, and it is on its second life — American births ran 490 in 2018 and 862 in 2025, having collapsed from a 1994 peak twenty years before.
4,989 in the 1910s
#425
Ivan Ivan is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious."
4,967 in the 1910s
#426
Isaac Isaac is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he laughs," from Yitzhak.
4,959 in the 1910s
#427
Felix Felix is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lucky" or "fortunate."
4,936 in the 1910s
#428
Gene Gene means well-born, shortened from Eugene — and it has nothing at all to do with genes in biology, which is a separate word coined in 1909 from a different Greek root entirely, by a Danish botanist.
4,930 in the 1910s
#429
Rufus Rufus means red-haired, and it named a king by his complexion — William II of England was called Rufus for his ruddy face, and he died with an arrow in him in the New Forest.
4,926 in the 1910s
#430
Elma
4,916 in the 1910s
#431
August August is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "majestic," from augustus.
4,890 in the 1910s
#432
Amy Amy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "beloved," and unusually the name is a past participle — someone who has been loved rather than someone lovable.
4,829 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.