1930s Baby Names

1,179 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#4,133
Glendell
124 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,154
Dillon Dillon has two unrelated sources that English cannot separate — an Irish surname of uncertain meaning and the Welsh Dylan, a sea god from the Mabinogi.
123 in the 1930s
#4,165
Jolly
122 in the 1930s
#4,171
Sena
122 in the 1930s
#4,182
Perlie
122 in the 1930s
#4,192
Byrd
121 in the 1930s
#4,255
Akira
119 in the 1930s
#4,261
Stacey Stacey is the e-spelling of Stacy, from Eustace or Anastasia.
118 in the 1930s
#4,275
Isa Isa is a unisex name with two main origins.
117 in the 1930s
#4,290
Auburn
117 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,341
Gwenn
114 in the 1930s
#4,354
Lucky
114 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,362
Jammie
114 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,374
Dallis
113 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,380
Ardean
113 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,393
Olie
112 in the 1930s
#4,402
Lenny Lenny is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "lion-strong."
111 in the 1930s 8 of 10 years
#4,407
Tilden
111 in the 1930s
#4,408
Marvelle
111 in the 1930s
#4,420
Samie
111 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,472
Burdell
108 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,473
Aiko
108 in the 1930s
#4,477
Ilo
108 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,484
Quinn Quinn is a name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Cuinn, meaning "descendant of Conn."
108 in the 1930s
#4,506
Lamoine
107 in the 1930s
#4,522
Bernis
107 in the 1930s
#4,537
Lyndel
106 in the 1930s
#4,540
Silver
106 in the 1930s
#4,567
Vernis
104 in the 1930s
#4,570
Sonnie
104 in the 1930s
#4,585
Ival
104 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,590
Leotha
104 in the 1930s
#4,619
Benjamine
103 in the 1930s
#4,621
Gradie
103 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,629
Schuyler
102 in the 1930s
#4,652
Ramsey
101 in the 1930s
#4,661
Aubery
101 in the 1930s
#4,667
Nicola
101 in the 1930s
#4,668
Layne Layne is a unisex name meaning "a small road," from the English surname Lane, which described someone living by a narrow path.
100 in the 1930s
#4,682
Merced
100 in the 1930s
#4,688
Jessy
100 in the 1930s
#4,689
Asencion
100 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,692
Aquilla
100 in the 1930s
#4,699
Morrison
100 in the 1930s
#4,706
Alexis Alexis is a Greek name meaning helper or defender, and it is split by country: a boys' name in France, where it ranks 256th, and majority female in the United States.
99 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,718
Arta
99 in the 1930s
#4,723
Gearl
99 in the 1930s 9 of 10 years
#4,727
Hildreth
99 in the 1930s

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.