Most Popular Baby Names of the 1910s

Top Boy Names

# Name Births
1 John 376,312
2 William 303,018
3 James 275,070
4 Robert 239,185
5 Joseph 179,300
6 George 176,609
7 Charles 173,534
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 57,002
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 35,160
40 Samuel 34,166
41 Herbert 33,860
42 Alfred 32,635
43 Leonard 31,878
44 Michael 30,859
45 Elmer 28,600
46 Andrew 28,152
47 Leo 26,656
48 Bernard 25,628
49 Norman 25,033
50 Peter 24,935

Top Girl Names

# Name Births
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 59,509
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