The most popular 10 names in that year were John Patrick James Michael Thomas William Joseph Edward Daniel and Peter.

Common female names of the 1900s. Rank Name -Quantity Add. Velma and Bernice were among the newly popular 1900s girl names. Meanwhile close to a quarter of all Irish women in 1911 were called either Mary or Bridget.

25 rows BabyCenter is committed to providing the most helpful and trustworthy pregnancy and parenting. Look to top dog names in the early 1900s for ideas on naming your dog and to step back in time and see how dogs were just as beloved back then. The average family size was 10-12 kids and sometimes youd get a random name such as Arabella or Phoebe thrown in.

203 rows Name Number Name Number. So you could have John Pat Anne Mary Tom Margaret James Joesph and then maybe a Cherry or Unity. For girls names like Florence and Ivy which were popular in the early 1900s are now back in the top 20 names for girls after falling out of the list for decades.

Mary ranked 150 in 2017 2. Many of the Irish back in the 1800s and early 1900s were very adventurous with their baby name choices. Arthur surged into the top 10.

Early 19th century Americans revered the classics with names from mythology or ancient history widely used. And examples of the original first name and the source are cited within it. Along with Josephine and Leo other 1900s baby names that are currently in the US Top 1000 include Elsie George Hazel Leonard Nellie Oscar Virginia and Walter.

While we may not be hearing many babies named Gertrude and Clarence. 1001 rows All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United. This research came from a mix of the Suffolk Domesday Book the Paston letters the Boldon Book and the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames on the principle that a name needed to be fairly common to become a surname.