Can you name the 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Girl Names of the 1910s?

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Baby Names: Girls (1910s) Quiz

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Created Mar 30, 2010 in Miscellaneous
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	skyway:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 04:13 GMT		28 points
	Willie? WTF.

	carolineh:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 04:16 GMT		9 points
	I'm shocked that more people guessed Willie than Vivian or Sylvia...

	ablackperson:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 05:02 GMT		3 points
	Ugh, Beulah is the worst name. Worse than Londynne, Madysonn, Amberleigh, or any of those stripper names that are popular now. Beulah is just...inherently ugly.

	buminthepark:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		10 points
	after ruby, opal, and pearl i really thought topaz would work. dang.

	lichenboy:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 05:13 GMT		18 points
	Wow, the girls' names for 1910 are so much more dated than the boys' names from the same era. Beulah! Gladys! Edith! Ethel!! Few of these are commonly used anymore; it reads like a list of diner waitresses. I got a lot of these by punching in the names of all my old female relatives.and then got Geraldine and Josephine, just because I happened to watch Some Like Hot this afternoon.

	evil_fruit_girl:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 05:39 GMT		7 points
	Beulah, Gertrude, Myrtle, ugh.

	jmilhollin:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 06:42 GMT		33 points
	I must say thank you to all the old ladies at church. They helped out immensely here!

	RetroGirl:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 06:57 GMT		11 points
	I relied on a lot of Little House on the Prairie names, plus the Golden Girls and the actresses who played them (Thanks, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche!), plus a few nice old ladies I knew :-) Even so, I only managed to get 55. That's often where I end up on theses quizzes- I enjoy them immensely, but can never seem to get much past half. I guess I'm not alone, though, since most Sporclers fair the same!

	elcropsziuq:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 07:57 GMT		5 points
	@retrogirl.. lol that's what I did.. I started with my relatives then golden girls lol. Even used some of my coworkers & former coworkers-- though how I missed Doris.. doink... Surprised Christine didn't make the list or even Victoria (Queen Victoria). The ones that surprised me were "Willie" and "Juanita"

	schulace:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 09:34 GMT		2 points
	What the Marguerite?

	BonnieH:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 10:16 GMT		6 points
	So many of these make so much sense when I see them but I totally blank when I'm trying to get them. And I must apologize to one of my good friends (who wasn't born in the 1910, btw) and my great-grandmother for not getting their names.

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	FeralSpirit:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 12:11 GMT		3 points
	nice, both my names popped up haha, Eleanor May

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	hamstrung:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 12:58 GMT		6 points
	Noticeably more difficult than the male counterpart. I guessed Hortense and Zelda just to see what would happen. Hey, ya' never know, Velma checked in at the 96 slot...roooooby-dooooooo!

	Koltrane:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 13:00 GMT		4 points
	Sounds like the residents of a retirement home. I've always thought of Emma as a little old lady's name, so it's funny to me that it's popular now. I'm just waiting for Ethel, Bertha, Gladys and Gertrude to make their comebacks.

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	AlexKrycek:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 13:28 GMT		2 points
	@skyway, Willie is not that far fetched. It's a diminutive of Wilmina or Wilhemina. I guessed Eddie & Mae because one of my great grandmothers was named Eddie Mae. Alas no Ola:( I had one on each side of my family (a great aunt & a great grandmother)

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	object_holder:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 13:46 GMT		2 points
	@lichenboy - I don't know, I haven't met any young guys named Clyde, Herman, Melvin, Woodrow, Gordon, Lester or Vernon.

	hamstrung:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 14:32 GMT		2 points
	@buminthepark: I tried the same method with the old line, "April may, but June will." As it turns out, April and Mae did, but June didn't.

	Cat_Girl:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT		3 points
	My grandmother was born in 1910 and darned if her name isn't right in the middle of the list. And this is the first time I've ever seen my mother's name on any list, ever.

	lichenboy:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 15:12 GMT		1 point
	@object_holder: yeah, most are dated, but i remember there being many boys names that are still commonly used. It's hard to pick 5 names from the girl's list that are. Rank Name 1 John 2 William 3 James 4 Robert 10 Thomas 14 Paul 15 Richard 29 David 30 Kenneth 38 Anthony 44 Michael 46 Andrew 52 Daniel 69 Philip 74 Benjamin 78 Jesse 82 Lee 89 Stephen

	penguinsfan:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 16:11 GMT		5 points
	@lichenboy: Actually, there are 11 of these names on the most popular girl names of the 2000s. (Emma, Elizabeth, Sarah, Grace, Anna, Julia, Katherine, Ella, Mary, Lillian, and Evelyn)

	Meltha:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 17:59 GMT		13 points
	As odd as some of these are, I'm guessing a LOT of the popular names today are going to be making people grimace in fifty years' time (or five years' time for some of them).

	DarkPhalanx:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 18:50 GMT		-4 points
	Judging by the rating of this quiz, I guess no one else is sick of these quizzes? Christ soon we'll have one for every year on Sporcle

	livfred:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 19:51 GMT		2 points
	Beulah was my grandmother's name, and I didn't think to guess it! Boo.

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	Cheepacheep:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 21:30 GMT		-1 points
	Sorry Americans but I have never heard of any woman ever having the names Beulah or Willie.

	adamnvillani:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 21:52 GMT		8 points
	My little sister's name is Dorothy. She says she's never met anybody under the age of 80 with her name.

	IronDragline:	Aug 30th, 2010 at 02:14 GMT		3 points
	"Edith" and "Martha"; good old-fashioned names.

	Austerlitz:	Aug 30th, 2010 at 02:36 GMT		4 points
	I wonder what people will think of the name "Barack" in 100 years.

	Foggia:	Aug 30th, 2010 at 05:19 GMT		0 points
	Beulah is the ugliest, agreed. Phyllis could be alright, but nobody would want to see her...

	Leeny:	Aug 30th, 2010 at 15:57 GMT		1 point
	Maxine came out of nowhere for me. It sounds way too 70s

	bookbomb:	Aug 30th, 2010 at 16:49 GMT		4 points
	Some ugly names on here and we all wish never to hear them again but they will be back with a vengeance..... my great granddaughters will probably be Agnes and Velma and Bertha yuck

	jaymc:	Aug 30th, 2010 at 18:00 GMT		8 points
	Girls' names definitely come in and out of fashion in a more volatile manner than boys' names do. Comparing the 1910 list to the 2009 list, there are 12 girls' names that are in the top 100 both years, and 16 boys' names. That probably doesn't seem like much of a difference. But only one of those girls' names (Elizabeth) has actually stayed within the top 100 the entire time, while 13 of the boys' names have. Furthermore, of the three boys' names that have dipped below the top 100, none has ever fallen outside the top 200. The name Ella, by comparison, wasn't even in the top 1000 for several years in the 1980s, before making its dramatic recent comeback.

	Koltrane:	Aug 31st, 2010 at 02:27 GMT		6 points
	When I hear Bertha, I think of a 300 pound German broad who can carry 16 beer steins at once. Beulah is from the Bible, but it always will conjure up images of Beulah Balbricker from Porky's for me. I can't hear Vera without thinking of Norm from Cheers. Wilma is as old as the stone age (haw haw). I have to say the ugliest, though, is Agnes.

	angiealight:	Aug 31st, 2010 at 02:48 GMT		3 points
	There are some very lovely names here, but in my opinion, MILDRED is the worst. It makes me think "mildew." (With apologies to anyone with loved ones bearing that name, of course!)

	EatMorePossum:	Sep 1st, 2010 at 01:07 GMT		6 points
	I can imagine a lot of folks, say, 75 or so years from now ... "Kimberly! Melissa! Ewww! What horrible names! What were those people thinking?"