1930s Baby Names
6,742 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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#1,144Rhea Rhea is a girl's name of Greek origin borne by the Titan who was mother of Zeus.1,146 in the 1930s
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#1,171Camilla Camilla is a girl's name of Latin origin naming a young attendant at a religious rite.1,084 in the 1930s
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#1,179Emilie Emilie is a girl's name, the French and Danish form of Latin Aemilia, usually given as rival.1,073 in the 1930s
What made a 1930s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1930 and 1939, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1930s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.