Top Names of 1910
The most popular names recorded in 1910 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 22,848 |
| 2 | Helen | 10,479 |
| 3 | Margaret | 8,226 |
| 4 | Dorothy | 7,318 |
| 5 | Ruth | 7,212 |
| 6 | Anna | 6,436 |
| 7 | Elizabeth | 5,800 |
| 8 | Mildred | 5,692 |
| 9 | Marie | 4,790 |
| 10 | Alice | 4,671 |
| 11 | Frances | 4,448 |
| 12 | Florence | 4,282 |
| 13 | Ethel | 4,146 |
| 14 | Lillian | 4,127 |
| 15 | Gladys | 3,842 |
| 16 | Rose | 3,837 |
| 17 | Evelyn | 3,777 |
| 18 | Edna | 3,664 |
| 19 | Annie | 3,519 |
| 20 | Louise | 3,457 |
| 21 | Irene | 3,281 |
| 22 | Catherine | 3,161 |
| 23 | Grace | 3,145 |
| 24 | Hazel | 3,032 |
| 25 | Thelma | 2,976 |
| 26 | Gertrude | 2,932 |
| 27 | Ruby | 2,893 |
| 28 | Martha | 2,858 |
| 29 | Virginia | 2,855 |
| 30 | Josephine | 2,801 |
| 31 | Lucille | 2,692 |
| 32 | Clara | 2,665 |
| 33 | Bertha | 2,651 |
| 34 | Emma | 2,607 |
| 35 | Edith | 2,592 |
| 36 | Beatrice | 2,459 |
| 37 | Bessie | 2,392 |
| 38 | Esther | 2,378 |
| 39 | Pearl | 2,177 |
| 40 | Sarah | 2,173 |
| 41 | Agnes | 2,163 |
| 42 | Pauline | 2,153 |
| 43 | Myrtle | 2,145 |
| 44 | Elsie | 2,141 |
| 45 | Eva | 2,123 |
| 46 | Mabel | 2,123 |
| 47 | Ida | 2,107 |
| 48 | Viola | 2,090 |
| 49 | Julia | 2,074 |
| 50 | Minnie | 1,983 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 11,450 |
| 2 | James | 9,194 |
| 3 | William | 8,844 |
| 4 | Robert | 5,609 |
| 5 | George | 5,441 |
| 6 | Joseph | 5,228 |
| 7 | Charles | 4,784 |
| 8 | Frank | 3,768 |
| 9 | Edward | 3,407 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,899 |
| 11 | Willie | 2,897 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,851 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,596 |
| 14 | Albert | 2,183 |
| 15 | Paul | 2,005 |
| 16 | Harry | 1,978 |
| 17 | Arthur | 1,942 |
| 18 | Harold | 1,909 |
| 19 | Raymond | 1,737 |
| 20 | Clarence | 1,706 |
| 21 | Richard | 1,654 |
| 22 | Fred | 1,587 |
| 23 | Jack | 1,576 |
| 24 | Louis | 1,569 |
| 25 | Joe | 1,553 |
| 26 | Carl | 1,339 |
| 27 | Howard | 1,309 |
| 28 | Ralph | 1,278 |
| 29 | Roy | 1,267 |
| 30 | David | 1,258 |
| 31 | Ernest | 1,167 |
| 32 | Samuel | 1,129 |
| 33 | Earl | 1,109 |
| 34 | Charlie | 1,107 |
| 35 | Lawrence | 1,009 |
| 36 | Francis | 1,000 |
| 37 | Anthony | 980 |
| 38 | Alfred | 922 |
| 39 | Eugene | 888 |
| 40 | Sam | 888 |
| 41 | Herbert | 886 |
| 42 | Andrew | 884 |
| 43 | Kenneth | 880 |
| 44 | Donald | 860 |
| 45 | Michael | 844 |
| 46 | Leonard | 793 |
| 47 | Stanley | 761 |
| 48 | Elmer | 760 |
| 49 | Lee | 741 |
| 50 | Leroy | 733 |