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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Rankings for

#10,845
Lancelot
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,846
Hansell
16 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,847
Rober
16 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,851
Armas
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,855
Jorgen
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,856
Reaford
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,864
Flavian
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,865
Orison
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,868
Edsil
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,871
Neilan
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,872
Nute
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,881
Christobal
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,882
Thadius
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,884
Bjarne
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,885
Clabon
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,887
Floryan
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,890
Waring
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,891
Onofre
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,894
Obra
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,895
Nathanal
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,900
Wavely
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,901
Goree
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,903
Andrews
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,904
Florindo
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,906
Leocadio
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,908
Zigmunt
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,913
Franky
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,918
Kedric
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,921
Kingdon
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,925
Clebert
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,926
Venton
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,927
Earnst
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,928
Field
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,929
Benjimen
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,930
Worthington
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,931
Lucus
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,934
Kam
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,936
Bahe
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,939
Quillian
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,941
Gould
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,943
Romaldo
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,945
Bain
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,946
Donivan
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,948
Criss
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,950
Gershon
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,951
Kile
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,955
Philias
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,956
Taisto
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years

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.