The first radio station was launched - and the birth of broadcasting. Babe Ruth was sold to the New York Yankees, everyone was doing The Charleston and reading the newest magazines: Time, Reader's Digest and The New Yorker. Hollywood bloomed with its first talkies and its first animated cartoon (featuring new star Mickey Mouse).
Read on to see what people were naming their babies in the 1920s.
Boys
- Robert
- John
- James
- William
- Charles
- George
- Joseph
- Richard
- Edward
- Donald
- Thomas
- Frank
- Harold
- Paul
- Raymond
- Walter
- Jack
- Henry
- Kenneth
- Arthur
- Albert
- David
- Harry
- Eugene
- Ralph
Girls
- Mary
- Dorothy
- Helen
- Betty
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Virginia
- Doris
- Mildred
- Frances
- Elizabeth
- Evelyn
- Anna
- Marie
- Alice
- Jean
- Shirley
- Barbara
- Irene
- Marjorie
- Florence
- Lois
- Martha
- Rose
- Lillian
All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States at the end of February 1930. The most popular names of the 1920s were taken from a universe that includes 11,368,486 male births and 12,398,342 female births.