U.S. Baby Girl Names by Year Quiz

I keep doing it over and over as well - my best is 83

Too true

+1 totally.

Isabella #1? ugh... I guess as long as "Renesme" doesn't catch on.

Actually it's two names.

It's a great reason to abandon it for a few decades.

It's not that it's a bad name, it's that the fact that Isabella, Edward, and Jacob all recently became popular names again is probably not a coincidence.

Bit rude to put down names like Hayley (MY name btw) and Madison just because you might not Iike them.

Not sure about Helen. She's left rude comments on my quizzes before. But in my case anyway, I'm not putting down the names I'm lamenting the fact that people are sheep and putting down the probable inspirations that led people to choose those names for their children.

Oh, she's left rude comments on your quizzes? I'm sure you, the flawless Kalbahamut, has never done such a thing on, say, QM's quizzes, including swearing, then shrieked about unfairness when they got removed thanks to a rule that you knew about.

funny how when you read all the popular names from 1910 it sounds like old lady names. I guess now they are.

Old? Maybe. Dead, more likely.

Meh, I know a Mary, an Anna and a Rose, all of them are kids.

I have two friends named Mary and Anna, and a teacher named Mrs. Rose

Huh my brothers both had a teacher named Mrs. Rose too. Are you Australian by any chance?

Haha yes.

How is Catherine not on here? I know more Catherine/Katie/Kates than any other name, I think.

I was surprised by that too, even retyped it a few times to be sure I hadn't spelled it wrong.

Same

I know. I just keep trying it. And it's not even a recent thing either. Catherine is a very common name, and I can't even say how many Katie's, Kaitlyn's, and Kate's I know.

Maybe they did not group together all the many different variants.

Apparently it was difficult to know where to draw the line. Lily got me Lillian, but Laura didn't gave me Lori or Lauren. Margaret did not give me Megan, nor did Elizabeth give me Lisa, and I tried Ellen, Helen, Eleanor, and Isabella, but none gave me Ella. It reminds me of the old riddle, "Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess all went together to seek a bird's nest. They found a nest with five eggs in, each took one and left four in." How could that be? All were names or nicknames for the same girl.

Same!

Yeah, I was surprised at no Kate/Katelyn/etc. And I, too, thought Catherine would appear as well. Interesting list

No Catherine/Kate etc. in the top twenty in any of the last ten decades? Unbelievable!

@Quizmaster: Consider counting "Marie" under "Mary.

used all my girlfriends names like a boss

Wow, your girlfriends had 56 names each?

BURN!!! :)

+1

absolutely loved this! very fun, i got a 31 :)

How could anyone ever go through 9 months of agony, and call their child Dolores?

Do you know what Dolores means?

Sorrow. Which is kind of right on point with cedric's question.

It can mean agony or pain so makes perfect sense.

In decades past there was no internet to check the meaning of names - most people named their children something which was either a family name, a biblical name, something from pop culture of the day, or a name they heard and thought it was pretty or interesting. My husband had an uncle named Drexel (born in the 1920s) because his mother read an ad in the newspaper for a company by that name and liked the sound of it. Her cousin liked the name when she heard it and also named her son the same thing.

That's how I ended up with my nephew Halliburton.

just having a chuckle because CEDRIC and DOLORES are both names from HARRY POTTER!!!!!

so true

My husband and I both have cousins named Dolores and both are called Dee.

My name is on there 4 times, my daughter's 10, and my sister's 2.

Me too. I know more Katherines/Katies/Kates/Kats/Kittys than any other name. But it might not be as popular in the South as it is here in New England.

+1

Agh... 34 seconds left, my fingers HURT!

This was a really hard quiz for me. I thought I was doing pretty well, I got 33. To find out the average is 44. I guess I don't have a bank of names in my gag memory. At least I got Florence, Joyce and Irene. But that's only cause I was cycling through names of hurricanes. I am curious to know how others did this quiz. Did you know the info already? Did you just rattle off the names of every girl you ever met? And how is Catherine/Katherine/Katie/Kate not on here at all? I guess multiple spellings split the vote.

Ella is, which is a form of Ellie.

Seriously, Gladys.

LMAO I added all my GFs names and even names of their mothers but I forgot my Ex wife's name but tried her mom's name hahahahahahaha

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Hayley for Hailey... that's how my niece born in the post-Eminem decade spells it.

Try my quiz for 5-letter names by decade: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/43073/most-popular-five-letter-baby-girl-names-by-decade

How do you do a link?

If you're going to accept things like "Barb" for "Barbara", please could you accept "Sam" and "Jenny" for Samantha and Jennifer?

Why are girls' names so hard?? I've heard of all these names, but can never remember much more than half of them.

The time-pressure mind-blank is a real phenomenon. I missed my own middle name and sirname (which happens to be a first name).

I agree, very difficult and for once the photograph given was no help at all.

surprised there wasn't Leslie I know a ton

of boy Leslies.

Should be max time.

Max time is 60 minutes. Are you sure?

Dont you mean Girl Baby names by DECADE??

39% get my name. What has come to this world?!?!

I know a girl named "Blakely" which is just awful. Gretchen is also horrible. And I hate the name Gladys. It sickens me to think that someone would name their baby GLADYS?! If you're lucky enough to have a baby girl, you shouldn't give her a terrible name!

Different times. I'm sure in the future we'll look back and Gladys will still be outdated but it'll be one of the rather normal names. I mean names nowadays tend to get a little crazy. I'd rather be named Gladys than North, Apple or Peaches Honeyblossom.

Wow, judgmental much? Hit a nerve with me as I'm married to a Gretchen (who is amazing, by the way, but apparently you wouldn't give such a person the time of day). A gang of Gladys' may just come by your house to teach you and your cats some manners.

Amy should count for Amelia as well. That's my name, and I've always got Amy.

Kathleen, but no Katherine? Audrey? Mckayla?

My answer boxes only showed through 1970, and I didn't realize I should have scrolled down to get the decades back to the 1920s. I would have been trying names from my mother's and grandmother's generation had I known. Maybe add the decades covered in the instructions, or am I the only one who is this slow?

Could you accept Hayley for Hailey please? Thank you!

Elizabeth is everywhere!