L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, President McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn into office, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company, San Francisco was rocked by the 1906 earthquake, and the feather boa was an insanely popular fashion accessory. Aviation was born... and so was the first federal income tax.
In the 1900s, the population of the United States was just over 76 million. Nearly 6% of the boys born in 1900 were named John; 5% of the baby girls were named Mary.
Read on to see what other people were naming their babies in the 1900s.
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John F. Kennedy is elected to Camelot and a nation later grieves his assasination. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires the Civil Rights Movement. We put a man on the moon. Everyone is listening to The Beatles and the Grateful Dead. They're watching "The Monkees" and "Laugh In." The Vietnam War escalates and students protest. In the world of baby names, this is a big decade. For the first time in the 20th century, the name Mary is knocked off her perch as the #1 name for girls, displaced by Lisa, a name that wasn't even in the top 20 in the 1950s.
The US fights communism in Korea. At home, Americans prepare for the inevitable atomic bomb by building fallout shelters. Everyone's watching... television! They love Benny Hill, the Three Stooges, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and, of course, Lucille Ball. Everyone's listening to... rock and roll. Elvis Presley dominates the charts and Marilyn Monroe makes her big screen debut. 
It might be that your baby is born sooner than planned, or that the little girl whose name you painstakingly chose turns out to be a little boy. It could be that your labor and delivery goes so quickly that your partner can't get home from a business trip to be with you.
Ah, the inevitable nickname. Although short names like Rose or John can't be abridged, when it comes to longer names such as Elizabeth or Richard, there are many truncated possibilities. 
When you're coming up with baby names, the name of your favorite aunt or your best friend in college are obvious choices. But, what about looking to your favorite hobby or pastime to find a name? Or even your profession? 
The birth of a child is certainly cause for celebration - and we're talking more than "push presents" here. All around the world, different cultures recognize such cherished events with baby naming traditions. Your family may even have its own tradition that has descended the lineage, like naming each firstborn after a grandparent. If you're looking to start a naming tradition with your newborn, look to these stories for inspiration, some of which have been in place for centuries. 
Some people believe that your name can shape your destiny and predetermine the course of events in your life. Whether or not this is true is debatable. Is there a significance or hidden power in each name that can help parents pick a "better" one for their baby? Does what you call your baby have a bearing on her future job, which school she attends, how she fits in with her peers?
Numerology, or the method of assigning a numerical equivalent to each letter of the alphabet, is based on the ideas of Greek mathematician Pythagoras, who said, "All things can be expressed in numerical terms, because all things are ultimately reduced to numbers." Numbers, to him, were, "the basis of all art, science and music, and that by contemplating numbers, you can discover the spiritual key leading to the divine."
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