Popular 1910s names, and how old they are now

Babies born in the 1910s are 107 to 116 years old in 2026. Social Security recorded about 15 million of them under names it lists, and by our estimate under 1% are still alive: about 1,000 people.

The decade's top names were Mary for girls and John for boys. Of the top ten for each, 14 still go to at least 1,000 babies a year.

Top 1910s girl names

Most popular girl names of the 1910s
#	Name	Born 1910s	Alive today	Avg. age, everyone
1	Mary	478,636	under 100	66
2	Helen	248,154	under 100	66
3	Dorothy	207,475	under 100	72
4	Margaret	189,234	under 100	61
5	Ruth	173,675	under 100	62
6	Mildred	123,998	under 100	74
7	Anna	118,998	under 100	39
8	Elizabeth	116,811	under 100	44
9	Frances	105,599	under 100	67
10	Virginia	94,322	under 100	66
11	Marie	92,086	under 100	62
12	Evelyn	91,492	under 100	34
13	Alice	85,866	under 100	53
14	Florence	81,465	under 100	66
15	Lillian	75,914	under 100	29
16	Rose	74,690	under 100	56
17	Irene	68,968	under 100	61
18	Louise	67,973	under 100	69
19	Edna	66,897	under 100	70
20	Catherine	65,823	under 100	54
21	Gladys	65,812	under 100	68
22	Ethel	63,662	under 100	76
23	Josephine	61,355	under 100	39
24	Ruby	60,308	under 100	39
25	Martha	59,508	under 100	66
26	Grace	57,973	under 100	27
27	Hazel	57,068	under 100	27
28	Thelma	57,011	under 100	74
29	Lucille	56,147	under 100	52
30	Edith	56,059	under 100	57
31	Eleanor	54,163	under 100	30
32	Doris	53,249	under 100	75
33	Annie	52,301	under 100	54
34	Pauline	50,075	under 100	69
35	Gertrude	49,565	under 100	76
36	Esther	49,212	under 100	42
37	Betty	44,894	under 100	76
38	Beatrice	44,515	under 100	56
39	Marjorie	44,452	under 100	69
40	Clara	44,346	under 100	36
41	Emma	41,819	under 100	20
42	Bernice	40,346	under 100	70
43	Bertha	40,120	under 100	69
44	Ann	39,506	under 100	65
45	Jean	39,284	under 100	69
46	Elsie	39,274	under 100	41
47	Julia	39,259	under 100	38
48	Agnes	39,255	under 100	64
49	Lois	38,179	under 100	75
50	Sarah	38,120	under 100	39

Top 1910s boy names

Most popular boy names of the 1910s
#	Name	Born 1910s	Alive today	Avg. age, everyone
1	John	376,311	under 100	55
2	William	303,017	under 100	51
3	James	275,070	under 100	54
4	Robert	239,185	under 100	58
5	Joseph	179,300	under 100	45
6	George	176,609	under 100	57
7	Charles	173,535	under 100	54
8	Edward	125,720	under 100	56
9	Frank	116,017	under 100	59
10	Thomas	91,619	under 100	53
11	Walter	89,145	under 100	58
12	Harold	79,721	under 100	66
13	Henry	79,667	under 100	34
14	Paul	78,216	under 100	57
15	Richard	74,603	under 100	60
16	Raymond	71,820	under 100	56
17	Albert	68,207	under 100	57
18	Arthur	67,478	under 100	54
19	Harry	65,874	under 100	62
20	Donald	57,001	under 100	64
21	Ralph	52,522	under 100	65
22	Louis	50,600	under 100	52
23	Jack	49,526	under 100	34
24	Clarence	49,196	under 100	62
25	Carl	48,454	under 100	60
26	Willie	47,690	under 100	64
27	Howard	46,596	under 100	65
28	Fred	44,345	under 100	67
29	David	43,853	under 100	52
30	Kenneth	43,248	under 100	57
31	Francis	41,053	under 100	57
32	Roy	40,340	under 100	60
33	Earl	40,273	under 100	64
34	Joe	38,250	under 100	61
35	Ernest	37,134	under 100	61
36	Lawrence	36,354	under 100	60
37	Stanley	35,908	under 100	62
38	Anthony	35,627	under 100	40
39	Eugene	35,161	under 100	63
40	Samuel	34,166	under 100	32
41	Herbert	33,860	under 100	65
42	Alfred	32,635	under 100	60
43	Leonard	31,878	under 100	60
44	Michael	30,858	under 100	49
45	Elmer	28,600	under 100	56
46	Andrew	28,152	under 100	36
47	Leo	26,656	under 100	24
48	Bernard	25,628	under 100	61
49	Norman	25,033	under 100	64
50	Peter	24,935	under 100	51

About these numbers

“Born” counts the babies of each sex given the name in the 1910s, from Social Security's records. “Alive today” estimates how many of those babies are still living, using SSA's cohort life tables. “Avg. age, everyone” is the average age of everyone alive with the name, not just the 1910s babies. Records before the late 1930s undercount births, because many people born then never applied for a Social Security card. How we calculate this