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

#8,920
Lesslie
19 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#8,925
Ren
19 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#8,933
Vivion
19 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#8,935
Ermel
19 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#8,982
Marce
19 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#8,983
Melvis
19 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,003
Rudi
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,015
Linell
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,024
Lanis
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,029
Noris
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,043
Lark
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,051
Artemis
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,056
Tobey
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,067
Mosie
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,071
Haile
18 in the 1930s 2 of 10 years
#9,076
Jissie
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,096
Charlis
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,104
Durelle
18 in the 1930s 2 of 10 years
#9,107
Everest
18 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,133
Gari
17 in the 1930s 1 of 10 years
#9,134
Azel
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,142
Nealy
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,145
Daune
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,155
Lummie
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,163
Marchel
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,182
Roann
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,214
Olee
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,215
Jerris
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,219
Willett
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,222
Quincey
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,223
Shirrel
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,227
Starlin
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,236
Marveen
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,246
Luddie
17 in the 1930s 2 of 10 years
#9,255
Jona
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,286
Rexie
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,293
Narvell
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,308
Conna
17 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,314
Rockie
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,315
Elean
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,330
Delone
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,332
Lo
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,347
Greer
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,365
Gaylin
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,373
Osceola
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,380
Malin
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,387
Clancy
16 in the 1930s 3 of 10 years
#9,392
Lile
16 in the 1930s 3 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.