babynamepicker

Boy Names of the 1910s

The 100 most common boy names given in the United States during the 1910s, by the number of children recorded with each name across those years.

All 100 names

  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

How 1910s boy names compare

John was the most common boy name of the 1910s, given to 376,311 boys across those years, with William, James, Robert and Joseph behind it. The hundredth name on the list, Homer, accounts for 11,471. Between them the hundred names cover 4,786,421 births. John was number one in every one of those ten years.

87 of these names were also in the 1900s top 100, and 13 were not. 20 are still in the 2025 top 100 — John, William, James, Robert, Joseph, Charles, Thomas and Henry, among others — and 45 are inside the top 500.

Those hundred names cover 71.7% of all boys born in the 1910s — 4,786,421 of 6,675,187 — and John alone accounts for 5.6% of them. The hundred most common names of 2025 take 38.0% between them, so naming has spread wider since. Every one of the hundred was already in the record before the 1910s began.

Questions about 1910s boy names

What was the most popular boy name of the 1910s?

John, given to 376,311 boys across those years. The next two were William and James.

Are 1910s boy names still used today?

20 of the hundred are in the 2025 top 100: John, William, James, Robert, Joseph, Charles, Thomas and Henry, among others.