1930s Baby Names
4,734 names were given to children in the United States between 1930 and 1939, 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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#7,204Reo Reo is a boy's name used in Japanese, where it is written with a range of characters, and in Māori, where it means voice or language.39 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
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#7,225Brett Brett means a Breton — someone from Brittany, which is named for the Britons who fled there when the Anglo-Saxons arrived.38 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
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#7,235Rhett Rhett is a boy's name of Dutch origin meaning "advice" or "counsel."38 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
What Made a 1930s Name
Children in the United States were registered with it between 1930 and 1939. 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.