U.S. Baby Girl Names by Year Quiz

Too true

+1 totally.

I couldn't even think of my wife's name during this quiz :S Wasn't on the list anyway but aarrggghhh!

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

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.

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.

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!

Catherine would have been my name if I was a girl.

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

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.

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

1m35 restantes

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?!?!

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!

How is Peggy anything close to Margaret

Elizabeth is everywhere!

Man, I try so hard to get a good score, then realize I'm wasting time trying to get a hard quiz done that isn't even very educational. I'm finally just going to try a different quiz.

I know right! For some reason, baby name quizes are quite addictive, but so hard to remember them all!

Could Eve be accepted for Evelyn?

I still don't believe no variation of Kate never made this list in any decade.

Fun but tough for me, I dont know anyone by any of these names, neither the ones I guessed and the ones I didnt get. (non uk/us) Otherwise it would have a lot more I guess not only friends but random people you have heard of, that are in your school or something

my last and best guess was dolores :D So happy that was a hit and I thought of it haha.

and indeed definately expected some form of Catherine, spend quite a lot of time there c/k short/long with and without h (cat, kat, kate, cathy, katherine katharina, catherine, catherina, etc)

Can Katelyn be accepted for Kathleen? There are soooo many variations of the name/spelling

I was going through the alphabet and for E managed to get Edna, but not Emily.

45% kinda good