One-Hit Wonder Baby Names from the 1910s

The names below are “one-hit wonder” names that ranked among the 1,000 most popular U.S. baby names only once–sometime between 1910 and 1919 (inclusive).

Girls

• 1910: Arietta, Loree
• 1911: Blanchie, Felice
• 1912: Maebell
• 1914: Orene
• 1915: Cleone, Lahoma
• 1916: Rosaria
• 1917: Idamae, Lavelle, Michelina
• 1918: Victory
• 1919: Haruko

Boys

• 1911: Amerigo
• 1913: Gennaro, Hymen, Melbourne
• 1914: Geno, Gilmore, Saverio
• 1915: Arvo
• 1916: Berlin, Gerhardt, Hughes, Tatsuo
• 1917: Orvin
• 1918: Foch
• 1919: Laddie, Metro, Therman

Victory made the list the same year that WWI ended (…well, the year that Germany and the Allies signed the armistice treaty, anyway). The treaty wasn’t signed until November 11th, though, so I wonder if most of the little girls named Victory were born right at the end of 1918.

(Liberty also made the list for the first time in 1918. Its second appearance was 1976, the year of the U.S. Bicentennial.)

Earlier one-hit wonder lists: 1880s, 1900s, 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1990s, and 2000s.