Do you love vintage names but want to move beyond the usual classics and Biblical choices to cool names from history?  We looked at the popularity lists of 1910 to uncover hundreds of vintage boy names that are no longer in use — but could be revived.

　　It’s odd that there seem to be more terminally-antiquated boys’ names from 1910 than girls’ names.  After all, girls’ names change more quickly and dramatically than do boys’, which tend to hinge more on tradition and less on fashion.

　　Yet beyond the Johns and Williams that have always predominated for boys (and still do today), there are dozens, even  hundreds of names that filled the Top 1000 list a hundred years ago and now are lost to time.

　　They include hero names, surname-names, nickname-names, androgynous names, and even regular old first names that few people seem to use any more.

　　Sure, some parents who love vintage names might revive Chester or Homer or Julius or Oswald.  But many of these popular 1910s baby names for boys are rarely heard today.

　　Alvin

　　Arnold

　　Bernard

　　Carlton

　　Cecil

　　Chester

　　Claude

　　Cloyd

　　Clyde

　　Cornelius

　　Delbert

　　Dewey

　　Dudley

　　Earl

　　Edgar

　　Elex

　　Elmer

　　Elmo

　　Ernest

　　Eugene

　　Floyd

　　Franklin

　　Guy

　　Herbert

　　Herman

　　Homer

　　Horace

　　Hubert

　　Ira

　　Irving

　　Jerome

　　Julius

　　Lester

　　Lloyd

　　Marvin

　　Maurice

　　Melvin

　　Milton

　　Morris

　　Murray

　　Myron

　　Niram

　　Norman

　　Orville (or Orval)

　　Oswald

　　Percy

　　Rudolph

　　Sherman

　　Stanley

　　Sylvester

　　Vernon

　　Virgil

　　Waldo

　　Wallace

　　Wendell

　　Willard

　　

Nicknames of 1910

When we looked at the lost names of 1880, one major focus was on nickname-names that had faded away.  Without repeating any of the names on the 1880 list, choices in use in 1910 and not often heard today include the following.  (And yes, we realize that Ike has a lot of hipster cachet, but it’s usually short for Isaac and not given on its own as it was in 1910).

　　Alvie

　　Bennie

　　Buck

　　Buddy

　　Buster

　　Cleve

　　Coy

　　Curley

　　Dock

　　Hal

　　Hoke

　　Huey

　　Ike

　　Junior

　　Lonnie

　　Mac

　　Obie

　　Ollie

　　Ossie

　　

1910s Last Names Used As Firsts

Surname names were also highly fashionable in 1910.  Names of heroes of the day that were in widespread use include:

　　Booker

　　Cleveland

　　Clinton

　　Columbus

　　Edison

　　Fulton

　　Jefferson

　　Lafayette

　　Morgan

　　Napoleon

　　Newton

　　Taft

　　Ulysses

　　Washington

　　Watson

　　Webster

　　Wilson

　　Woodrow

　　

Unique Surname Names

Other surname names frequently heard a hundred years ago, but not so much today, are:

　　Alford

　　Brooks

　　Brown

　　Burnett

　　Dorsey

　　Doyle

　　Evans

　　Felton

　　Fletcher

　　Freeman

　　Gardner

　　Garland

　　Grady

　　Granville

　　Harley

　　Haskell

　　Hayward

　　Hobart

　　Jones

　　Lawson

　　Levy

　　Oakley

　　Osborne

　　Preston

　　Rogers

　　Sanders

　　Stanford

　　Stanton

　　Thornton

　　Tillman

　　Warner

　　Wiley

　　

1910s Males Names Turned Girlward

Hundreds of boys in 1910 were given names that would now be considered for girls only.  Used for boys back then but now lost from the male side of the ledger are:

　　Allie

　　Allison

　　Audrey

　　Averie

　　Bonnie

　　Clare

　　Cleo

　　Connie

　　Courtney

　　Dee

　　Ellie

　　Evelyn

　　Florence

　　Gale

　　Guadalupe

　　Halley

　　Ivory

　　Ivy

　　Jewel

　　Jodie

　　June

　　Kelly

　　Lacy

　　Lauren

　　Lavern

　　Lesley

　　Leslie

　　Lindsay

　　Lindsey

　　Marion

　　Meredith

　　Opal

　　Patsy

　　Rene

　　Ruby

　　Ruth

　　Sandy

　　Shelby

　　Tracy

　　Vivian

　　Winfred

　　Looking for vintage names for boys that are in style now? Check out this list of Vintage Boy Names