Top Baby Names in Nevada, 1910s — Most Popular Boys & Girls Names

The most popular baby names in Nevada from 1910 to 1919, ranked by total births during the decade.

What the Data Says About the 1910s in Nevada

During the 1910s (1910–1919), the Social Security Administration recorded 3,659 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names in Nevada. The decade's leading boy name was John with 283 births, while Mary was the top girl name with 220 births. The top 50 boys in this decade collectively accounted for 2,043 births versus 1,616 for the top 50 girls — a common SSA pattern in which the boy-name pool is more concentrated among fewer high-frequency choices. These totals represent only names appearing five or more times per year in Nevada; rarer names fall below the SSA's privacy-disclosure threshold and are excluded.

The 1910s sits within a specific cultural window of U.S. naming history. Pre-1950 decades like the 1910s were characterized by strong traditional and biblical naming conventions, with a small cluster of dominant names (John, William, Mary, Elizabeth) capturing a disproportionate share of births. John and Mary leading Nevada during this window reflects how regional preferences interact with broader national trends.

Decade totals are computed by summing SSA state-year records for Nevada across all ten years of the 1910s. Because the SSA suppresses any name with fewer than five annual occurrences in a state, the true number of unique names given in Nevada during this decade is larger than what this page lists. The dataset also treats every spelling as a separate name — for example, Kayla and Kaylah are tracked independently — so combined-spelling totals would shift the rankings somewhat. This page is provided for informational and research purposes and does not constitute naming, legal, or genealogical advice.

| All decades | 1920s →

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

Rank Name Births
1 John 283
2 William 218
3 George 149
4 James 143
5 Robert 139
6 Charles 110
7 Frank 80
8 Edward 75
9 Jack 71
10 Joseph 68
11 Thomas 62
12 Donald 44
13 Harry 42
14 Richard 41
15 Albert 38
16 Raymond 37
17 Harold 35
18 Arthur 33
19 Paul 32
20 Walter 30
21 Earl 23
22 Ralph 22
23 Roy 21
24 Louis 21
25 Alfred 17
26 Fred 17
27 David 15
28 Ernest 14
29 Lawrence 13
30 Henry 12
31 Kenneth 11
32 Chester 11
33 Francis 10
34 Joe 10
35 Carl 8
36 Clarence 8
37 Wallace 7
38 Victor 7
39 Douglas 6
40 Vernon 6
41 Eugene 6
42 Martin 6
43 Herbert 6
44 Peter 6
45 Woodrow 5
46 Gerald 5
47 Leslie 5
48 Melvin 5
49 Lloyd 5
50 Ray 5

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

Rank Name Births
1 Mary 220
2 Dorothy 117
3 Helen 113
4 Margaret 99
5 Ruth 79
6 Virginia 68
7 Alice 68
8 Mildred 63
9 Marie 48
10 Frances 48
11 Louise 45
12 Irene 44
13 Josephine 44
14 Florence 40
15 Evelyn 37
16 Elizabeth 34
17 Marjorie 31
18 Betty 31
19 Jean 30
20 Lois 29
21 June 25
22 Doris 24
23 Rose 23
24 Edna 17
25 Grace 17
26 Ida 17
27 Thelma 15
28 Edith 15
29 Anita 13
30 Lillian 13
31 Lucille 12
32 Anne 11
33 Lena 11
34 Eleanor 10
35 Esther 10
36 Elsie 10
37 Catherine 10
38 Olga 7
39 Hazel 6
40 Janet 6
41 Marguerite 6
42 Marion 6
43 Barbara 6
44 Stella 6
45 Pearl 6
46 Clara 6
47 Audrey 5
48 Gladys 5
49 Vivian 5
50 Norma 5

Nearby Rankings

Related decade and state views for Nevada

Nevada, 1920s
Top 50 by decade
All Nevada Decades
State-wide rollup
1910s National
Top U.S. decade names

Compare 1910s leaders: John vs Mary → or pick any two names →

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files, 1910–2024 (ssa.gov).

Source: SSA Baby Names Methodology — names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year are included (ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html).

Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official U.S. government datasets. See our methodology for details.