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Baby names of 1910

Mary and John topped the lists in 1910, out of 590,711 births recorded across 4,174 different names. That is 15.5% more than the 1909 files hold.

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Girls

#NameBirths
1Mary22,848
2Helen10,479
3Margaret8,226
4Dorothy7,318
5Ruth7,212
6Anna6,436
7Elizabeth5,800
8Mildred5,692
9Marie4,790
10Alice4,671
11Frances4,448
12Florence4,282
13Ethel4,146
14Lillian4,127
15Gladys3,842
16Rose3,837
17Evelyn3,777
18Edna3,664
19Annie3,519
20Louise3,457
21Irene3,281
22Catherine3,161
23Grace3,145
24Hazel3,032
25Thelma2,976

All 200 girls’ names of 1910 (2,790 recorded)

Boys

#NameBirths
1John11,450
2James9,194
3William8,844
4Robert5,609
5George5,441
6Joseph5,228
7Charles4,784
8Frank3,768
9Edward3,407
10Henry2,899
11Willie2,897
12Thomas2,851
13Walter2,596
14Albert2,183
15Paul2,005
16Harry1,978
17Arthur1,942
18Harold1,909
19Raymond1,737
20Clarence1,706
21Richard1,654
22Fred1,587
23Jack1,576
24Louis1,569
25Joe1,553

All 200 boys’ names of 1910 (1,839 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1909:

Lannie is here because the girls’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1909:

Emma and Tracy are here because the boys’ file records them: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 1910, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1910:

First recorded in 1910, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1910:

Halley is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.