US baby names · the 1910s

Most popular baby names of the 1910s

These are the most given US names of the 1910s, adding up Social Security counts for each year from 1910 to 1919. Across those years SSA recorded 8,156,259 girls and 6,675,187 boys under names given to five or more babies.

Mary led the girls with 478,636 babies, followed by Helen, Dorothy and Margaret. For boys, John came first with 376,311, ahead of William, James and Robert.

Against the top 100 of the 1900s, 16 girls’ names and 13 boys’ names in the 1910s are newcomers (girls: Jean, Jane, Sylvia; boys: Woodrow, Vincent, Vernon). Of these names, 18 of the 100 girls’ names and 20 of the 100 boys’ names are still in the top 100 in 2025.

A decade total favours names that were steady for ten years over a single-year spike, so a list here can differ from any one year’s top 100. The sparklines show each name before and after the 1910s.

SSA names.zip · Social Security card applications · retrieved 2026-10-05

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Top 100 girls’ names, 1910s

Rank	Name	Girls in decade
#1	Mary	478,636
#2	Helen	248,154
#3	Dorothy	207,475
#4	Margaret	189,234
#5	Ruth	173,675
#6	Mildred	123,998
#7	Anna	118,998
#8	Elizabeth	116,811
#9	Frances	105,599
#10	Virginia	94,322
#11	Marie	92,086
#12	Evelyn	91,492
#13	Alice	85,866
#14	Florence	81,465
#15	Lillian	75,914
#16	Rose	74,690
#17	Irene	68,968
#18	Louise	67,973
#19	Edna	66,897
#20	Catherine	65,823
#21	Gladys	65,812
#22	Ethel	63,662
#23	Josephine	61,355
#24	Ruby	60,308
#25	Martha	59,508
#26	Grace	57,973
#27	Hazel	57,068
#28	Thelma	57,011
#29	Lucille	56,147
#30	Edith	56,059
#31	Eleanor	54,163
#32	Doris	53,249
#33	Annie	52,301
#34	Pauline	50,075
#35	Gertrude	49,565
#36	Esther	49,212
#37	Betty	44,894
#38	Beatrice	44,515
#39	Marjorie	44,452
#40	Clara	44,346
#41	Emma	41,819
#42	Bernice	40,346
#43	Bertha	40,120
#44	Ann	39,506
#45	Jean	39,284
#46	Elsie	39,274
#47	Julia	39,259
#48	Agnes	39,255
#49	Lois	38,179
#50	Sarah	38,120
#51	Marion	37,974
#52	Katherine	36,884
#53	Eva	34,909
#54	Ida	34,792
#55	Bessie	33,859
#56	Pearl	33,834
#57	Anne	33,478
#58	Viola	33,076
#59	Myrtle	32,432
#60	Nellie	30,879
#61	Mabel	30,783
#62	Laura	30,549
#63	Kathryn	29,235
#64	Stella	28,526
#65	Vera	28,289
#66	Willie	28,179
#67	Jessie	27,834
#68	Jane	27,740
#69	Alma	27,515
#70	Minnie	27,486
#71	Sylvia	25,655
#72	Ella	24,913
#73	Lillie	24,651
#74	Rita	23,850
#75	Leona	23,825
#76	Barbara	23,704
#77	Vivian	23,634
#78	Lena	23,624
#79	Violet	23,157
#80	Lucy	23,117
#81	Jennie	23,068
#82	Genevieve	22,830
#83	Marguerite	22,658
#84	Charlotte	22,548
#85	Mattie	22,243
#86	Marian	22,158
#87	Blanche	21,977
#88	Mae	21,530
#89	Ellen	21,500
#90	Wilma	21,384
#91	Juanita	20,878
#92	Opal	20,386
#93	June	19,244
#94	Geraldine	18,990
#95	Beulah	18,874
#96	Velma	18,631
#97	Theresa	18,348
#98	Carrie	18,067
#99	Phyllis	17,885
#100	Maxine	17,800

Top 100 boys’ names, 1910s

Rank	Name	Boys in decade
#1	John	376,311
#2	William	303,017
#3	James	275,070
#4	Robert	239,185
#5	Joseph	179,300
#6	George	176,609
#7	Charles	173,535
#8	Edward	125,720
#9	Frank	116,017
#10	Thomas	91,619
#11	Walter	89,145
#12	Harold	79,721
#13	Henry	79,667
#14	Paul	78,216
#15	Richard	74,603
#16	Raymond	71,820
#17	Albert	68,207
#18	Arthur	67,478
#19	Harry	65,874
#20	Donald	57,001
#21	Ralph	52,522
#22	Louis	50,600
#23	Jack	49,526
#24	Clarence	49,196
#25	Carl	48,454
#26	Willie	47,690
#27	Howard	46,596
#28	Fred	44,345
#29	David	43,853
#30	Kenneth	43,248
#31	Francis	41,053
#32	Roy	40,340
#33	Earl	40,273
#34	Joe	38,250
#35	Ernest	37,134
#36	Lawrence	36,354
#37	Stanley	35,908
#38	Anthony	35,627
#39	Eugene	35,161
#40	Samuel	34,166
#41	Herbert	33,860
#42	Alfred	32,635
#43	Leonard	31,878
#44	Michael	30,858
#45	Elmer	28,600
#46	Andrew	28,152
#47	Leo	26,656
#48	Bernard	25,628
#49	Norman	25,033
#50	Peter	24,935
#51	Russell	24,842
#52	Daniel	23,978
#53	Edwin	23,697
#54	Frederick	23,542
#55	Chester	23,500
#56	Herman	22,598
#57	Lloyd	21,743
#58	Melvin	21,739
#59	Lester	21,509
#60	Floyd	21,472
#61	Leroy	21,275
#62	Theodore	21,106
#63	Clifford	20,886
#64	Clyde	19,864
#65	Charlie	19,834
#66	Sam	18,544
#67	Woodrow	18,355
#68	Vincent	18,285
#69	Philip	18,166
#70	Marvin	17,821
#71	Ray	17,792
#72	Lewis	17,787
#73	Milton	17,522
#74	Benjamin	17,310
#75	Victor	17,157
#76	Vernon	16,967
#77	Gerald	16,522
#78	Jesse	16,293
#79	Martin	16,097
#80	Cecil	15,987
#81	Alvin	15,499
#82	Lee	15,380
#83	Willard	15,364
#84	Leon	15,280
#85	Oscar	14,869
#86	Glenn	14,304
#87	Edgar	14,080
#88	Gordon	13,641
#89	Stephen	13,502
#90	Harvey	13,304
#91	Sidney	12,793
#92	Claude	12,792
#93	Everett	12,748
#94	Arnold	12,586
#95	Morris	12,484
#96	Wilbur	12,411
#97	Warren	12,012
#98	Wayne	11,572
#99	Allen	11,493
#100	Homer	11,471