1920s Baby Names

1,289 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#10,498
Arba
18 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,509
Arzo
18 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,529
Emo
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,539
Quincey
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,559
Amory
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,569
Hong
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,590
Ilia
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,605
Florenz
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,609
Floren
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,624
Nebraska
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,631
Jona
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,634
Nima
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,637
Aven
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,642
Nim
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,662
Wildred
17 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,668
Fortune
17 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,736
Edner
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,768
Kellis
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,772
Paddy Paddy is a unisex name of Latin origin, the familiar form of Pádraig, meaning "nobleman."
16 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,773
Nevel
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,777
Ripley
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,785
Ramie
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,791
Vader
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,796
Elis
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,814
Beebe
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,816
Gee
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,819
Evin
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,821
Ather
16 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,822
Jennis
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,828
Ordie
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,832
Roen
16 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,838
Hagan
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,848
Parris
16 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,852
Raby
16 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,873
Winn
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,893
Denby
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,899
Amarante
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,910
Venis
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,915
Elain
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,919
Vale
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,924
Ovell
15 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#10,954
Pal
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,961
Whitley
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#10,969
North
15 in the 1920s 3 of 10 years
#11,034
Greeley
14 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#11,061
Ive
14 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#11,063
Syril
13 in the 1920s 2 of 10 years
#11,076
Merit
13 in the 1920s 2 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.