Names that belong entirely to the 1920s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 1920s — the years of jazz, bobs and champagne towers — and have since stepped out of the mainstream.
Choose one to honor that generation, or simply enjoy the most concentrated time capsule the records can offer.
Girls
- Betty#2 in 1928 · rare today
- Dorothy#2 in 1920 · rare today
- Virginia#6 in 1921 · rare today
- Doris#6 in 1929 · rare today
- Jean#12 in 1926 · rare today
- Marjorie#16 in 1921 · rare today
- Lois#17 in 1929 · rare today
- Gloria#20 in 1925 · rare today
- Phyllis#24 in 1929 · rare today
- Bernice#39 in 1921 · rare today
- Lorraine#39 in 1928 · rare today
- Marion#42 in 1922 · rare today
- Juanita#48 in 1924 · rare today
- Wilma#62 in 1925 · rare today
- Marian#64 in 1924 · rare today
- Maxine#76 in 1923 · rare today
- Billie#79 in 1929 · rare today
Boys
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 1920s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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