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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#4,430Achille Achille is a boy's name of Greek origin, the French form of Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.88 in the 1910s 8 of 10 years
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#4,434Odin Odin is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning roughly "the frenzied one".88 in the 1910s 8 of 10 years
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#4,436Sherry Sherry is a girl's name that appears to have been taken from the wine, whose own name is a corruption of the Spanish town Jerez.88 in the 1910s 7 of 10 years
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#4,439Saint Saint is a boy's name taken directly from the English word, which comes through French from the Latin sanctus, meaning holy or consecrated.87 in the 1910s 6 of 10 years
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#4,451Debbie Debbie is a girl's name meaning bee, a pet form of Deborah.87 in the 1910s 8 of 10 years
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#4,457Jared Jared is a boy's name from Hebrew meaning descent, borne by the father of Enoch — the one man in Genesis who does not die but is taken.87 in the 1910s 9 of 10 years
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.