Tuesday, September 25, 2012

1930 Names - Boys

I finished the top names of 1930 for boys. Here it is!

Top names of 1930 - BOYS

There were some interesting names in 1930. Wow.

There were lots of ranks, offices and titles (numbers are how many kids got that name in 1930):

Admiral 8
Colonel 13
Commodore 12
Council 8
Doctor 6
Duke 33
General 47
Governor 12
Judge 51
Lawyer 31
Lieutenant 5
Major 143
Minor 24
Pastor 5
President 5
Prince 63
Proctor 7
Saint 6
Sargent 5
Squire 5




I shouldn't get too excited-- Judge, Duke, Prince, and Major still show up on name lists in the 21st century... but Lieutenant? And I'm glad I'm not named Minor!

There were some good adjectives:
Bland 6
Craven 7
French 13
Handy 11
Moody 15
Real 11
Reedy 8
Smiley 10
Worthy 7

and even better nouns (and a couple of verbs):
Almond 14
Author 51
Choyce 6
Cluster 8
Custer 7
Dock 86
Ell 5
Ether 5
Excell 8
Fines 5
Fleet 11
France 8
Glade 17
Gleen 14
Harm 9
Less 9
Luster 18
Metro 6
Orange 11
Other 7
Ova 13
Oval 8
Quince 5
Ruble 12
Shafter 8
Square 5
Toy 18
Trellis 6
Veto 5
Wales 5
Wash 18

Monday, September 24, 2012

Top Girls' names of 1930

I'm slowly going through the Social Security Administration's name database grouping names by spelling, one year at time. I'm on 2005, and it was getting a bit tedious, what with trying to remember whether I've been putting Kaleigh with the 10,000 spellings of Kaylee or the 25 spellings of Callie... so I jumped to 1930 where things were a little easier. Still working on the boys' names, but the girls' list is here:

Popular Baby Names Grouped By Spelling: 1930 (Girls' List)