L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, President McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn into office, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company, San Francisco was rocked by the 1906 earthquake, and the feather boa was an insanely popular fashion accessory. Aviation was born... and so was the first federal income tax.
In the 1900s, the population of the United States was just over 76 million. Nearly 6% of the boys born in 1900 were named John; 5% of the baby girls were named Mary.
Read on to see what other people were naming their babies in the 1900s.
Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Joseph
- Charles
- Robert
- Frank
- Edward
- Henry
- Walter
- Thomas
- Harry
- Arthur
- Harold
- Albert
- Paul
- Clarence
- Fred
- Carl
Girls
- Mary
- Helen
- Margaret
- Anna
- Ruth
- Elizabeth
- Dorothy
- Marie
- Mildred
- Alice
- Florence
- Ethel
- Lillian
- Rose
- Gladys
- Frances
- Edna
- Grace
- Catherine
- Hazel
All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States at the end of February 1910. The most popular names of the 1900s were taken from a universe that includes 1,467,657 male births and 3,106,152 female births.
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