1930s Baby Names

1,252 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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Rankings for

#7,259
Dene
38 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,269
Adlene
38 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,286
Romey
37 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,299
Elvan
37 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,302
Mirl
37 in the 1930s 7 of 10 years
#7,317
Pressley
37 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,328
Wynn
37 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,329
Ervie
37 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,347
Malon
36 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,362
Clary
36 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,369
Eppie
36 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,377
Lorell
36 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,397
Kennis
36 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,409
Averill
36 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,416
Tennessee
35 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,424
Ascension
35 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,427
Wille
35 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,436
Tennyson
35 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,458
Orell
35 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,482
Rollins
35 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,492
Dorean
35 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,517
Myrel
34 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,533
Elizah
34 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,549
Esley
34 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,550
Aris
34 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,555
True
34 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,565
Argusta
34 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,578
Jae
34 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,584
Currie
33 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,599
Alvern
33 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,600
Dabney
33 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,604
Frenchie
33 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,605
Mabry
33 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,611
Lyndol
33 in the 1930s 6 of 10 years
#7,628
Harlo
33 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,636
Tharon
33 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,642
Harvest
33 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,649
Olis
33 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,674
Tomi
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,687
Landry
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,703
Nemiah
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,705
Trine
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,710
Sloan
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,717
Rosell
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,720
Carrington
32 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,727
Ezel
32 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years
#7,763
Enis
31 in the 1930s 4 of 10 years
#7,765
Chee
31 in the 1930s 5 of 10 years

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.