1920s Baby Names
5,242 names were given to children in the United States between 1920 and 1929, 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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#1,096Fletcher Fletcher is a boy's name from an English occupational surname for a maker of arrows.1,456 in the 1920s
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#1,122Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".1,369 in the 1920s
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#1,163Lucien Lucien is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucian.1,285 in the 1920s
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#1,165Christian Christian is a boy's name from the Latin christianus, meaning "a follower of Christ."1,279 in the 1920s
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#1,175Isaiah Isaiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh is salvation," from Yesha'yahu.1,262 in the 1920s
What Made a 1920s Name
Children in the United States were registered with it between 1920 and 1929. 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.