Most Popular Baby Names of the 1910s

Across the 1910s, Mary was the most popular girls' name, given to 478,636 babies, and John led the boys with 376,311.

That's out of 8,156,259 girls and 6,675,187 boys counted between 1910 and 1919, under 8,258 different girls' names and 7,000 boys' names.

Number one, year by year

Most popular names each year, 1910 to 1919
Year	Girls	Boys
1910	Mary	John
1911	Mary	John
1912	Mary	John
1913	Mary	John
1914	Mary	John
1915	Mary	John
1916	Mary	John
1917	Mary	John
1918	Mary	John
1919	Mary	John

Top 100 names of the 1910s

Top girls' names, 1910–1919
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1900s
1	Mary	478,636	same
2	Helen	248,154	same
3	Dorothy	207,475	up 4
4	Margaret	189,234	down 1
5	Ruth	173,675	same
6	Mildred	123,998	up 4
7	Anna	118,998	down 3
8	Elizabeth	116,811	down 2
9	Frances	105,599	up 7
10	Virginia	94,322	up 43
11	Marie	92,086	down 3
12	Evelyn	91,492	up 26
13	Alice	85,866	down 2
14	Florence	81,465	down 5
15	Lillian	75,914	down 2
16	Rose	74,690	up 1
17	Irene	68,968	up 8
18	Louise	67,973	up 9
19	Edna	66,897	down 4
20	Catherine	65,823	up 8
21	Gladys	65,812	down 7
22	Ethel	63,662	down 10
23	Josephine	61,355	up 14
24	Ruby	60,308	up 18
25	Martha	59,508	up 4
26	Grace	57,973	down 7
27	Hazel	57,068	down 3
28	Thelma	57,011	up 13
29	Lucille	56,147	up 22
30	Edith	56,059	up 2
31	Eleanor	54,163	up 41
32	Doris	53,249	up 52
33	Annie	52,301	down 15
34	Pauline	50,075	up 21
35	Gertrude	49,565	down 9
36	Esther	49,212	down 3
37	Betty	44,894	up 49
38	Beatrice	44,515	up 9
39	Marjorie	44,452	up 58
40	Clara	44,346	down 17
41	Emma	41,819	down 20
42	Bernice	40,346	up 31
43	Bertha	40,120	down 23
44	Ann	39,506	up 31
45	Jean	39,284	not top 100 in 1900s
46	Elsie	39,274	down 7
47	Julia	39,259	up 1
48	Agnes	39,255	down 5
49	Lois	38,179	up 40
50	Sarah	38,120	down 6
51	Marion	37,974	up 14
52	Katherine	36,884	up 10
53	Eva	34,909	down 13
54	Ida	34,792	down 18
55	Bessie	33,859	down 33
56	Pearl	33,834	down 25
57	Anne	33,478	up 34
58	Viola	33,076	down 13
59	Myrtle	32,432	down 24
60	Nellie	30,879	down 14
61	Mabel	30,783	down 31
62	Laura	30,549	down 13
63	Kathryn	29,235	up 19
64	Stella	28,526	up 3
65	Vera	28,289	up 4
66	Willie	28,179	down 5
67	Jessie	27,834	down 9
68	Jane	27,740	not top 100 in 1900s
69	Alma	27,515	down 12
70	Minnie	27,486	down 36
71	Sylvia	25,655	not top 100 in 1900s
72	Ella	24,913	down 20
73	Lillie	24,651	down 23
74	Rita	23,850	not top 100 in 1900s
75	Leona	23,825	up 1
76	Barbara	23,704	not top 100 in 1900s
77	Vivian	23,634	not top 100 in 1900s
78	Lena	23,624	down 18
79	Violet	23,157	up 9
80	Lucy	23,117	down 14
81	Jennie	23,068	down 7
82	Genevieve	22,830	not top 100 in 1900s
83	Marguerite	22,658	up 4
84	Charlotte	22,548	not top 100 in 1900s
85	Mattie	22,243	down 31
86	Marian	22,158	not top 100 in 1900s
87	Blanche	21,977	down 24
88	Mae	21,530	down 29
89	Ellen	21,500	down 8
90	Wilma	21,384	not top 100 in 1900s
91	Juanita	20,878	not top 100 in 1900s
92	Opal	20,386	up 6
93	June	19,244	not top 100 in 1900s
94	Geraldine	18,990	not top 100 in 1900s
95	Beulah	18,874	down 18
96	Velma	18,631	up 4
97	Theresa	18,348	not top 100 in 1900s
98	Carrie	18,067	down 42
99	Phyllis	17,885	not top 100 in 1900s
100	Maxine	17,800	not top 100 in 1900s

Top boys' names, 1910–1919
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1900s
1	John	376,311	same
2	William	303,017	same
3	James	275,070	same
4	Robert	239,185	up 2
5	Joseph	179,300	up 2
6	George	176,609	down 2
7	Charles	173,535	down 2
8	Edward	125,720	up 1
9	Frank	116,017	down 1
10	Thomas	91,619	same
11	Walter	89,145	up 1
12	Harold	79,721	up 7
13	Henry	79,667	down 2
14	Paul	78,216	up 6
15	Richard	74,603	up 7
16	Raymond	71,820	up 5
17	Albert	68,207	down 1
18	Arthur	67,478	down 3
19	Harry	65,874	down 6
20	Donald	57,001	up 32
21	Ralph	52,522	up 6
22	Louis	50,600	up 3
23	Jack	49,526	up 6
24	Clarence	49,196	down 7
25	Carl	48,454	up 1
26	Willie	47,690	down 12
27	Howard	46,596	up 6
28	Fred	44,345	down 10
29	David	43,853	up 2
30	Kenneth	43,248	up 23
31	Francis	41,053	up 4
32	Roy	40,340	down 9
33	Earl	40,273	down 5
34	Joe	38,250	down 10
35	Ernest	37,134	down 5
36	Lawrence	36,354	up 1
37	Stanley	35,908	up 25
38	Anthony	35,627	up 10
39	Eugene	35,161	up 4
40	Samuel	34,166	down 8
41	Herbert	33,860	down 5
42	Alfred	32,635	down 3
43	Leonard	31,878	up 7
44	Michael	30,858	up 1
45	Elmer	28,600	down 4
46	Andrew	28,152	down 6
47	Leo	26,656	down 3
48	Bernard	25,628	up 27
49	Norman	25,033	up 29
50	Peter	24,935	up 8
51	Russell	24,842	up 4
52	Daniel	23,978	down 3
53	Edwin	23,697	up 13
54	Frederick	23,542	up 13
55	Chester	23,500	up 13
56	Herman	22,598	down 9
57	Lloyd	21,743	up 15
58	Melvin	21,739	up 27
59	Lester	21,509	same
60	Floyd	21,472	down 9
61	Leroy	21,275	down 1
62	Theodore	21,106	down 24
63	Clifford	20,886	same
64	Clyde	19,864	down 8
65	Charlie	19,834	down 31
66	Sam	18,544	down 24
67	Woodrow	18,355	not top 100 in 1900s
68	Vincent	18,285	not top 100 in 1900s
69	Philip	18,166	up 17
70	Marvin	17,821	up 25
71	Ray	17,792	down 10
72	Lewis	17,787	down 8
73	Milton	17,522	up 16
74	Benjamin	17,310	down 9
75	Victor	17,157	up 19
76	Vernon	16,967	not top 100 in 1900s
77	Gerald	16,522	not top 100 in 1900s
78	Jesse	16,293	down 24
79	Martin	16,097	down 5
80	Cecil	15,987	down 9
81	Alvin	15,499	up 12
82	Lee	15,380	down 36
83	Willard	15,364	not top 100 in 1900s
84	Leon	15,280	same
85	Oscar	14,869	down 28
86	Glenn	14,304	not top 100 in 1900s
87	Edgar	14,080	down 8
88	Gordon	13,641	not top 100 in 1900s
89	Stephen	13,502	up 7
90	Harvey	13,304	down 10
91	Sidney	12,793	not top 100 in 1900s
92	Claude	12,792	down 23
93	Everett	12,748	down 3
94	Arnold	12,586	not top 100 in 1900s
95	Morris	12,484	not top 100 in 1900s
96	Wilbur	12,411	not top 100 in 1900s
97	Warren	12,012	not top 100 in 1900s
98	Wayne	11,572	not top 100 in 1900s
99	Allen	11,493	down 8
100	Homer	11,471	down 18

Names that peaked in the 1910s

These were among the decade's top 1,000 and reached their highest share of babies in a year between 1910 and 1919. The year each one peaked is in brackets.

Girls

Helen (1917)
Margaret (1916)
Ruth (1915)
Mildred (1913)
Frances (1918)
Evelyn (1919)
Irene (1916)
Louise (1912)
Catherine (1914)
Josephine (1916)

Boys

Joseph (1914)
Raymond (1919)
Ralph (1918)
Carl (1915)
Willie (1910)
Howard (1912)
Francis (1915)
Stanley (1916)
Russell (1914)
Edwin (1915)

Source: Social Security Administration, national baby name data, data through 2025. Names given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year aren't published, so totals are a little lower than actual births.