1910s Name Generator

Period-true American names, 1910 to 1919

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Generate American names from the 1910s: full names built on the decade's favorites, like Harold Lindqvist, Mildred Pruitt, Woodrow Tate and Thelma Kowalczyk, plus the parents' generation, Ellis Island families, Southern double names and period nicknames such as Buster and Dot.

About 1910s names

An American name from the 1910s pairs a solid, familiar given name with a surname that tells you where the family came from. Classrooms were full of Johns, Williams, Marys and Helens, but the names that date a character to these years are the ones then in fashion: Harold, Clarence, Walter and Woodrow for boys, Dorothy, Mildred, Thelma, Gladys and Ruth for girls. Their parents, born in the 1870s and 1880s, answer to an older set: Elmer, Otis, Bertha, Minnie, Effie.

The list is made of full names and mixes the households a census taker of the decade would meet. There are long-settled New England and Midwestern names, German and Scandinavian farm families, and the Italian, Polish, Jewish, Greek, Hungarian and Irish names of the big immigration years, written without accents the way American records usually spelled them. Southern double names such as Willie Mae Ledbetter and Billy Joe Pickens sit beside the names of families who moved north in the first years of the Great Migration, a few old-money society names, and the nicknames people went by, like Buster Halvorson and Dot Haskins.

These are civilian names with no ranks or titles. The pairings were put together for fiction and games, so any match with a real person is a coincidence.

How to choose 1910s names

  • Match the given name to the year of birth. A child born in 1913 can be Woodrow or Thelma; the grandmother in the same house is more likely Minnie, Effie or Bertha.
  • Let the surname hint at where the family settled. Scandinavian names cluster in the upper Midwest, Italian and Polish names in the industrial cities of the Northeast and Great Lakes.
  • Give the American-born children of immigrants the decade's English names. Thelma Kowalczyk and Gladys Nowak are as true to the period as Stanislawa Grabowski.
  • Use a double name or a nickname in dialogue. Annie Ruth Gaddis would be called by both names, and a boy written down as Harold might answer only to Red or Buster.
  • For family history fiction, look at a census page or a city directory from your setting to see which names really shared a street.

Frequently asked questions

What were common names in the 1910s?

For boys, John, William, James, Robert and Joseph were among the most common, with Harold, Walter, Clarence and Woodrow adding period flavor. For girls, Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth were staples, joined by Mildred, Thelma and Gladys. The list pairs these with surnames, as in Harold Lindqvist and Mildred Pruitt.

How is this different from the 1900s and 1920s lists?

The given names overlap, because a Clarence or a Mildred could belong to any of the three decades. This list leans on the names that rose in the 1910s, adds parents born in the 1870s and 1880s, and covers the heavy immigration years before the First World War. It is a separate set of full names from the 1900s and 1920s pages.

Why are immigrant names spelled without accents?

American census takers, clerks and newspapers of the time usually wrote foreign names in plain letters, so a name appears here as Jozef Zielinski or Erzsebet Torok. Many families later shortened or anglicized their surnames, and their American-born children often got English given names.

Are these real people?

No. The given names and surnames are real and fit the period, but each pairing was put together for this list, for use in fiction, role-playing and family-tree style games. With names this ordinary, a match with someone who really lived is bound to happen and is a coincidence.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 41 names

  • Abraham Rubin
  • Addie Marlowe
  • Adelaide Rittenhouse
  • Adolph Bauer
  • Agnes Maguire
  • Agnes Nesbitt
  • Albert Pratt
  • Alberta Shelton
  • Alcide Thibodeaux
  • Alma Irwin
  • Alonzo Pickering
  • Alvin Eaton
  • Alvin Oltmanns
  • Amos Haverly
  • Anastasia Angelos
  • Anders Bjorklund
  • Angelina Santoro
  • Angelo Mazzola
  • Anna Moskowitz
  • Annie Bell Jenkins
  • Annie Ruth Gaddis
  • Anthony Pagano
  • Anton Krueger
  • Antonietta Giordano
  • Antonio Marino
  • Apolonia Sikora
  • Archibald Beekman
  • Arnold Steinbach
  • Arthur Lockett
  • Arthur Tuttle
  • Arvid Sandberg
  • Asa Burnham
  • Assunta Moretti
  • Astrid Nordstrom
  • Athanasios Anagnos
  • Athena Sarris
  • August Schneider
  • Augusta Guenther
  • Augustus De Peyster
  • Augustus McCray
  • Axel Swanson

B: 24 names

  • Babe Sorenson
  • Bayard Pennington
  • Beatrice Rosenthal
  • Bernhard Neumann
  • Bernice Dudek
  • Bernice Griswold
  • Bertha Schubert
  • Bertha Whitcomb
  • Bessie Gross
  • Bessie Lou Ragsdale
  • Bessie Winfield
  • Billie Thornhill
  • Billy Joe Pickens
  • Birdie Langston
  • Blanche Mercer
  • Boleslaw Dombrowski
  • Booker Hairston
  • Borghild Aasen
  • Bridget Doyle
  • Bronislawa Pawlak
  • Bud Hadley
  • Buford Vickery
  • Bunny Aldrich
  • Buster Halvorson

C: 34 names

  • Carl Dean McWhorter
  • Carl Maddox
  • Carmela Greco
  • Carmine Barone
  • Carrie Lindsay
  • Carrie Ruffin
  • Casimir Pietrzak
  • Catherine Mather
  • Catherine Mulligan
  • Cecil Crandall
  • Celia Edelman
  • Charles Colby
  • Charlie Ray Honeycutt
  • Charlotte Barlow
  • Chester Haskell
  • Chester Malinowski
  • Chick Romano
  • Christos Vlahos
  • Clarence Dinsmore
  • Clarence Evenson
  • Clarence Mosley
  • Cleveland Boykin
  • Clifford Usher
  • Clovis Dowdy
  • Clyde Waterman
  • Concetta Russo
  • Conrad Schroeder
  • Constance Van Wyck
  • Constantine Pappas
  • Cora Bradshaw
  • Cordelia Appleton
  • Cornelius Dugan
  • Cornelius Epps
  • Cornelius Van Alstyne

D: 20 names

  • Dagny Jorgensen
  • Daisy Spruill
  • Daniel Mulcahy
  • Della Winthrop
  • Demetrios Karras
  • Dennis McNamara
  • Despina Laskaris
  • Dewey Langford
  • Doc Pettibone
  • Dolly Pruett
  • Domenico Ferrara
  • Dominic Calabrese
  • Donald Beckett
  • Dora Hirsch
  • Doris Radcliffe
  • Dorothea Brandt
  • Dorothy Brennan
  • Dot Haskins
  • Dovie Lee Yarbrough
  • Dutch Hoffmeister

E: 41 names

  • Earl Holbrook
  • Edith Langley
  • Edna Kittredge
  • Edward Gilman
  • Edward Tobin
  • Edwin Bruns
  • Effie Cranston
  • Einar Soderberg
  • Eleanor Choate
  • Eleanor Newcomb
  • Eleni Zervas
  • Eli Thatcher
  • Elijah Pinkney
  • Elin Hanson
  • Ella Mae Burnette
  • Ella Venable
  • Elmer Hadley
  • Elsa Boehm
  • Elsie Peck
  • Emil Niemeyer
  • Emma Vogel
  • Emmett Shackelford
  • Erik Dahlgren
  • Erna Kraus
  • Ernest Judson
  • Ernest Upshaw
  • Ernst Meyer
  • Erzsebet Torok
  • Essie Jeter
  • Essie Mae Mayfield
  • Esther Cutler
  • Esther Levine
  • Ethel Ordway
  • Ethel Tyson
  • Etta Bascomb
  • Eugene Peoples
  • Eugene Rowley
  • Eula Mae Tidwell
  • Evangelia Bakalis
  • Evelyn Quimby
  • Ezra Stoddard

F: 16 names

  • Fannie Schwartz
  • Ferenc Racz
  • Filomena Conti
  • Flora Penniman
  • Flossie Bauer
  • Floyd Patten
  • Frances Wheelock
  • Francis Driscoll
  • Francis Flanagan
  • Franciszek Kozlowski
  • Frank Guarino
  • Frank Larrabee
  • Fred Thornton
  • Frieda Winkler
  • Friedrich Schulz
  • Fritz Weber

G: 26 names

  • Gaetano D'Amico
  • Geneva Toliver
  • Genevieve Brevoort
  • Genevieve Gifford
  • Genowefa Olszewski
  • George Emery
  • Georgia Foushee
  • Geraldine Tilden
  • Gertrude Schumacher
  • Giovanna DeSantis
  • Giuseppe Esposito
  • Gizella Kiraly
  • Gladys Hollister
  • Gladys Nowak
  • Glenn Ingram
  • Gottlieb Zimmerman
  • Grace Dalton
  • Grover Simmons
  • Gudrun Brekke
  • Gunnar Backstrom
  • Gus Mellas
  • Gussie Finkelstein
  • Gustaf Holmquist
  • Gustav Koch
  • Gwendolyn Pinckney
  • Gyula Varga

H: 28 names

  • Halvor Amundson
  • Hap Dunleavy
  • Harold Eberhardt
  • Harold Lindqvist
  • Harry Wyman
  • Hattie Knox
  • Hattie Longworth
  • Hazel Fowler
  • Hedwig Roth
  • Heinrich Wagner
  • Helen Babcock
  • Helen Moriarty
  • Helena Jablonski
  • Helga Rasmussen
  • Henry Dabney
  • Herbert Lockhart
  • Herman Berkowitz
  • Herman Schlueter
  • Hilda Erickson
  • Hiram Wadsworth
  • Hjalmar Hedlund
  • Horace Sibley
  • Hortense Ravenel
  • Howard Overton
  • Hoyt Upchurch
  • Hugo Lehmann
  • Hulda Gustafson
  • Hyman Klein

I: 15 names

  • Ida Belle McElroy
  • Ida Horowitz
  • Ida Stratton
  • Ilona Feher
  • Imre Farkas
  • Inga Dahl
  • Ingeborg Hagen
  • Ingrid Lundberg
  • Ingvald Iverson
  • Ira Goodwin
  • Irene Fiske
  • Irving Blumenthal
  • Isaiah Goodwin
  • Isidore Greenberg
  • Israel Abramowitz

J: 25 names

  • Jack Keeler
  • Jacob Feldman
  • Jadwiga Michalski
  • James Atwood
  • James Finnegan
  • James Otis Mabry
  • Jan Szymanski
  • Janos Kovacs
  • Jasper Treadway
  • Jennie Rutherford
  • Jesse Holloway
  • Jimmie Lee Lovelace
  • Joe Frank Ledford
  • John Shaughnessy
  • John Upham
  • John Wesley Blankenship
  • Johnnie Mae Hightower
  • Joseph Merrill
  • Josephine Rand
  • Jozef Zielinski
  • Jozsef Toth
  • Juanita Oldham
  • Julia Truesdale
  • Julianna Balazs
  • Julius Lefkowitz

K: 9 names

  • Karl Hoffman
  • Katalin Fodor
  • Katarzyna Rutkowski
  • Katharina Jaeger
  • Kathryn Eastlake
  • Katina Lekas
  • Kazimierz Lewandowski
  • Kenneth Bingham
  • Kitty Donahue

L: 40 names

  • Lajos Molnar
  • Lars Torgerson
  • Laszlo Horvath
  • Lawrence Munson
  • Lefty Kowalski
  • Lemuel Coffin
  • Lena Baumann
  • Lena Margolis
  • Leokadia Baran
  • Leola Joyner
  • Leonard Bascom
  • Leopold Hartmann
  • Leroy Dozier
  • Lester Norwood
  • Levi Hutchinson
  • Lillian Dunham
  • Lillie Belle Whisenant
  • Lizzie Harwood
  • Lloyd Lambert
  • Lois Ives
  • Lonnie Ray Stubblefield
  • Loretta Halloran
  • Lottie Gajewski
  • Lottie Haines
  • Louis Garrison
  • Louis Kirschner
  • Louisa Delafield
  • Louise Hobbs
  • Lucia Mancini
  • Lucille Jessup
  • Lucinda Parham
  • Lucius Singleton
  • Lucretia Middleton
  • Ludwig Wolf
  • Luigi Coppola
  • Lula Belle Tolbert
  • Lula Crenshaw
  • Lula Hicks
  • Luther Bagley
  • Lydia Brubaker

M: 44 names

  • Mabel Hostetler
  • Mack Donnelly
  • Mae Scanlon
  • Magdalena Haas
  • Mamie Sturgis
  • Margaret Lathrop
  • Margaret Tierney
  • Margit Kocsis
  • Marguerite De Lancey
  • Marian Yardley
  • Marianna Gorski
  • Marion Kellogg
  • Marjorie Eldred
  • Marjorie Ten Eyck
  • Martha Ann Satterfield
  • Martha Yates
  • Mary Alice Covington
  • Mary Devlin
  • Mary Frances Hayes
  • Mary Longo
  • Mary Lou Culpepper
  • Mary Norcross
  • Mattie Fairfax
  • Mattie Gilliam
  • Mattie Lou Pettigrew
  • Maude Pettibone
  • Max Friedman
  • Maxine Frost
  • Melvin Jarvis
  • Meta Albrecht
  • Meyer Weinstein
  • Michael Gallagher
  • Michele Catalano
  • Midge Costello
  • Mildred Pruitt
  • Millicent Endicott
  • Milo Easterbrook
  • Minnie Tolliver
  • Mollie Shulman
  • Montgomery Van Cortlandt
  • Morris Goldberg
  • Moses Bolden
  • Muriel Chauncey
  • Myrtle Bridger

N: 11 names

  • Nathan Epstein
  • Nathaniel Broadnax
  • Nellie Carmichael
  • Nettie Oglesby
  • Nicholas Poulos
  • Nils Engstrom
  • Nora Kearney
  • Nora Lee Sizemore
  • Norma Dempsey
  • Norman Dawes
  • Nunzio Palumbo

O: 13 names

  • Odessa McNair
  • Odile Landry
  • Ogden Forbes
  • Ole Knutson
  • Olof Ekstrom
  • Opal Jean Barfield
  • Opal Rigby
  • Ora Lee Lanier
  • Oscar Peabody
  • Oskar Forsberg
  • Otis Babcock
  • Ottilie Schuster
  • Otto Dannenberg

P: 9 names

  • Panagiotis Demos
  • Pasquale Rizzo
  • Pauline Wardlow
  • Peder Tollefson
  • Peg Moriarty
  • Percival Schermerhorn
  • Percy Felder
  • Perry Callender
  • Priscilla Cabot

R: 22 names

  • Raymond Nye
  • Rebecca Silverman
  • Red Costigan
  • Reinhold Werner
  • Reuben Tisdale
  • Robert Kimball
  • Roosevelt Banks
  • Rosaria Fiore
  • Rose Fazio
  • Rose Geraghty
  • Rose Shapiro
  • Rosina Napolitano
  • Roy Farnsworth
  • Roy Lee Lunsford
  • Roy Yoder
  • Ruby Nell Boatwright
  • Ruby Underhill
  • Rudolph Richter
  • Rufus Whitlow
  • Russell Fenton
  • Rusty Callahan
  • Ruth Hathaway

S: 32 names

  • Sadie Mandelbaum
  • Sadie Whitten
  • Salvatore DeLuca
  • Samuel Kaplan
  • Sandor Nemeth
  • Sarah Beth Loudermilk
  • Sarah Pinsky
  • Schuyler Livingston
  • Selma Lundgren
  • Selmer Haugen
  • Signe Peterson
  • Sigrid Carlson
  • Sigurd Thorson
  • Silas Penrose
  • Sis Pruitt
  • Skeets Holloway
  • Slim Tolliver
  • Solomon Perlman
  • Solomon Witherspoon
  • Solveig Lokken
  • Sonny Fiore
  • Sophie Kalinowski
  • Spike Brannigan
  • Stanislawa Grabowski
  • Stanley Glowacki
  • Stanley Oakes
  • Stavros Kontos
  • Stella Czarnecki
  • Steve Bodnar
  • Susie Applegate
  • Sven Sjoberg
  • Sylvia Novick

T: 15 names

  • Tadeusz Jankowski
  • Teddy Winslow
  • Teresa Sorrentino
  • Tex Hollis
  • Thelma Kowalczyk
  • Thelma Stallings
  • Theodore Scruggs
  • Theodore Sumner
  • Thomas Donovan
  • Thomas Ludlow
  • Thora Strand
  • Thornton Ingersoll
  • Thorvald Gunderson
  • Tillie Tannenbaum
  • Timothy Hennessy

U: 1 name

  • Ulysses Dorsey

V: 14 names

  • Vasiliki Gianakos
  • Vasilios Economou
  • Velma Hazen
  • Vera Mae Dupree
  • Verna Mae Swafford
  • Vernon Abbott
  • Vincent Lonergan
  • Vincenzo Tedesco
  • Viola Behrens
  • Viola Chilton
  • Viola Norfleet
  • Violet Kendrick
  • Virginia Bixby
  • Vivian Alden

W: 17 names

  • Walter Aldrich
  • Walter Banas
  • Walter Cheatham
  • Whitey Lindstrom
  • Wilhelm Becker
  • Wilhelmina Keller
  • Willard Goddard
  • William Cavanaugh
  • William Earl Rutledge
  • William Pomeroy
  • Willie Mae Ledbetter
  • Wilma Varney
  • Winthrop Hallowell
  • Wladyslaw Kaminski
  • Wojciech Wozniak
  • Woodrow Gaines
  • Woodrow Tate

Y: 1 name

  • Yetta Goldstein

Z: 2 names

  • Zofia Wieczorek
  • Zygmunt Mazur