All four of my grandparents were immigrants and their children were all (with one exception) born in New York City during the period 1900-1919.
These first-generation children were: Mildred, Harold, Miriam, Sidney, Fred, Dorothy, and Daisy. I wondered how many of those names were particularly popular at the time.
So I wandered over to the Social Security website section devoted to "popular baby names of the period by decade" and selected the decade of 1910.
Sure enough, Dorothy was one of the most popular baby names of the 1910s, as was Mildred. By the way, both names were also in the top ten baby names of the first decade of the twentieth century.
Not one of these given names from my family appears in the top 10 baby names of the past century.
