Girl
Ethel
Extremely common in the early 1900s and now one of the rarest names in the registry, a clear case of a name tied tightly to one generation. It had its heyday in the 1910s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is a well-known pick in the registry.
Old EnglishNoble
Old EnglishOf noble birth
Births by decade
1900s
35,049
1910s
63,950
1920s
63,139
1930s
31,861
1940s
20,686
1950s
11,603
1960s
4,717
1970s
1,498
1980s
548
1990s
274
2000s
187
2010s
143
Peaked in the 1910s · 233,655 total U.S. births since 1900