Top names from the 1920s 1.

Popular names in 1920s britain. In the early part of the decade there seems to be more variety of popular boy names. As in Thoroughly Modern. Edith Edie Edith is a name borne by a whole host of estimable women such as Edith Cavell 18651915 the famous British nurse who during WWI treated soldiers on both sides indiscriminately and set up escape routes for hundreds of Belgian and allied fugitives.

Rank Male Name Female Name. Popular last names in the 1920s england. The 1920s also saw the start of some quite exotic sounding girls names such as Zona 1920 and Zita 1925.

1920s Baby Names The Most Beautiful Baby Names From the 1920s. It was quite a common nickname in the 1920s for Alice. Rank Male Name Female Name.

The 1920s or the Roaring Twenties was the decade of boom and bust of flappers and playboys jazz and the Charleston Bertie Wooster and the Great Gatsby the General Strike and Wall Street Crash. Julie Andrews film hilarious One I liked when doing my family tree was a relative named Alice but she was only known as Lallie. In that period came a number of baby names that became and remained popular from 1920 to 1929.

1001 rows Most Popular Names of the 1920s. 203 rows The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies. Several names during the decade were popular for a year but did not rank in the top ten for 1920s decade popularity.

Total registered births - 1698. Names such as Victor Leslie Clifford Jack Eric Donald Violet Gladys Olive Kathleen Ivy Doris and Evelyn were all several places lower in 1890 than 1900. Royal Family British.