Most Popular Baby Names of the 1890s

Top 100 girl and boy names, Social Security records, 1890 to 1899

Mary and John were the most popular baby names of the 1890s: 131,138 girls were named Mary and 80,664 boys John from 1890 to 1899. The tables rank the 100 names given to the most babies of each sex, out of 2,962 girl names and 2,058 boy names in the records for those years. Social Security lists a name in a year only when at least 5 babies of one sex got it.

Year by Year

The top 100 girl and boy names of each year of the 1890s, with what changed from the year before.

Top 100 Girl Names, 1890 to 1899

#	Name	Babies
1	Mary	131,138
2	Anna	55,261
3	Margaret	37,937
4	Helen	37,802
5	Elizabeth	33,879
6	Ruth	32,867
7	Florence	32,345
8	Ethel	31,453
9	Emma	28,652
10	Marie	25,853
11	Clara	25,473
12	Bertha	25,125
13	Minnie	24,615
14	Bessie	24,417
15	Alice	24,415
16	Lillian	24,106
17	Edna	24,068
18	Grace	23,804
19	Annie	23,122
20	Mabel	21,991
21	Ida	21,212
22	Rose	21,134
23	Hazel	20,154
24	Gertrude	19,898
25	Martha	19,415
26	Pearl	19,054
27	Frances	18,090
28	Myrtle	17,717
29	Edith	17,650
30	Nellie	17,285
31	Sarah	17,154
32	Ella	17,072
33	Eva	16,460
34	Laura	16,433
35	Elsie	16,375
36	Louise	15,174
37	Esther	14,737
38	Catherine	14,502
39	Agnes	14,429
40	Carrie	14,276
41	Lillie	14,093
42	Mildred	13,792
43	Gladys	13,622
44	Irene	13,621
45	Julia	13,448
46	Hattie	12,909
47	Cora	12,880
48	Lena	12,491
49	Josephine	12,463
50	Mattie	12,449
51	Jennie	11,876
52	Jessie	11,870
53	Maude	11,304
54	Alma	11,184
55	Mae	10,918
56	Blanche	10,860
57	Dorothy	10,846
58	Ada	10,379
59	Lucy	10,323
60	Lula	10,238
61	Mamie	10,085
62	Fannie	9,898
63	Stella	9,807
64	Katherine	9,408
65	Viola	9,386
66	Ruby	8,699
67	Dora	8,684
68	Maggie	8,607
69	Nora	8,293
70	Rosa	7,881
71	Beatrice	7,500
72	Ellen	7,435
73	Sadie	7,398
74	Marion	7,310
75	Willie	7,109
76	Effie	6,961
77	May	6,880
78	Beulah	6,785
79	Pauline	6,635
80	Nettie	6,538
81	Susie	6,530
82	Della	6,410
83	Vera	6,377
84	Marguerite	6,376
85	Daisy	6,249
86	Lydia	5,942
87	Virginia	5,864
88	Olive	5,713
89	Kathryn	5,653
90	Evelyn	5,648
91	Sallie	5,580
92	Lizzie	5,556
93	Lottie	5,499
94	Emily	5,476
95	Georgia	5,445
96	Flora	5,442
97	Nancy	5,346
98	Katie	5,178
99	Lucille	5,105
100	Leona	5,083

Top 100 Boy Names, 1890 to 1899

#	Name	Babies
1	John	80,664
2	William	72,244
3	James	50,723
4	George	43,358
5	Charles	36,848
6	Joseph	29,000
7	Frank	28,718
8	Robert	26,147
9	Edward	22,033
10	Henry	21,664
11	Harry	21,330
12	Thomas	21,115
13	Walter	19,495
14	Arthur	16,349
15	Fred	14,270
16	Albert	13,753
17	Clarence	11,901
18	Willie	9,849
19	Roy	9,779
20	Louis	8,442
21	Earl	8,297
22	Paul	8,181
23	Carl	8,047
24	Ernest	7,877
25	Samuel	7,857
26	Raymond	7,572
26	Richard	7,572
28	Joe	7,482
29	David	7,333
30	Charlie	7,261
31	Harold	7,018
32	Ralph	6,951
33	Howard	5,949
34	Andrew	5,719
35	Herbert	5,660
36	Elmer	5,647
37	Oscar	5,612
38	Jesse	5,396
39	Alfred	5,373
40	Will	5,210
41	Daniel	5,185
42	Sam	4,941
43	Leo	4,691
44	Jack	4,635
45	Lawrence	4,597
46	Francis	4,535
47	Benjamin	4,460
48	Lee	4,384
49	Eugene	4,303
50	Herman	4,232
51	Peter	4,028
52	Frederick	3,994
53	Floyd	3,957
54	Michael	3,926
55	Ray	3,763
56	Lewis	3,699
57	Claude	3,636
58	Clyde	3,625
59	Edwin	3,505
60	Tom	3,335
61	Martin	3,254
62	Leonard	3,166
63	Ben	3,156
64	Chester	3,021
65	Edgar	2,982
66	Jim	2,841
67	Harvey	2,822
68	Russell	2,780
69	Lester	2,702
70	Clifford	2,701
71	Luther	2,668
72	Homer	2,637
73	Jacob	2,551
74	Leroy	2,544
75	Otto	2,543
76	Guy	2,487
77	Lloyd	2,480
78	Anthony	2,453
79	Jessie	2,424
80	Hugh	2,405
81	Ed	2,346
82	Bernard	2,315
83	Theodore	2,300
84	Stanley	2,297
85	Eddie	2,284
86	Patrick	2,233
87	Philip	2,147
88	Leon	2,103
89	Archie	2,068
90	Leslie	2,063
91	Oliver	2,035
92	Allen	2,002
93	Alexander	1,954
94	Dewey	1,921
95	Ira	1,916
96	Everett	1,902
97	Norman	1,891
98	Horace	1,814
99	Victor	1,811
100	Cecil	1,808

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