Top Baby Names of the 1890s · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of the 1890s

Mary and John led the decade, out of 3,362,508 babies in the public record.

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Girls, the 1890s

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	131,138	5.90%
2	Anna	55,261	2.49%
3	Margaret	37,937	1.71%
4	Helen	37,802	1.70%
5	Elizabeth	33,879	1.53%
6	Ruth	32,867	1.48%
7	Florence	32,345	1.46%
8	Ethel	31,453	1.42%
9	Emma	28,652	1.29%
10	Marie	25,853	1.16%
11	Clara	25,473	1.15%
12	Bertha	25,125	1.13%
13	Minnie	24,615	1.11%
14	Bessie	24,417	1.10%
15	Alice	24,415	1.10%
16	Lillian	24,106	1.09%
17	Edna	24,068	1.08%
18	Grace	23,804	1.07%
19	Annie	23,122	1.04%
20	Mabel	21,991	0.99%
21	Ida	21,212	0.95%
22	Rose	21,134	0.95%
23	Hazel	20,154	0.91%
24	Gertrude	19,898	0.90%
25	Martha	19,415	0.87%
26	Pearl	19,054	0.86%
27	Frances	18,090	0.81%
28	Myrtle	17,717	0.80%
29	Edith	17,650	0.79%
30	Nellie	17,285	0.78%
31	Sarah	17,154	0.77%
32	Ella	17,072	0.77%
33	Eva	16,460	0.74%
34	Laura	16,433	0.74%
35	Elsie	16,375	0.74%
36	Louise	15,174	0.68%
37	Esther	14,737	0.66%
38	Catherine	14,502	0.65%
39	Agnes	14,429	0.65%
40	Carrie	14,276	0.64%
41	Lillie	14,093	0.63%
42	Mildred	13,792	0.62%
43	Gladys	13,622	0.61%
44	Irene	13,621	0.61%
45	Julia	13,448	0.61%
46	Hattie	12,909	0.58%
47	Cora	12,880	0.58%
48	Lena	12,491	0.56%
49	Josephine	12,463	0.56%
50	Mattie	12,449	0.56%
51	Jennie	11,876	0.53%
52	Jessie	11,870	0.53%
53	Maude	11,304	0.51%
54	Alma	11,184	0.50%
55	Mae	10,918	0.49%
56	Blanche	10,860	0.49%
57	Dorothy	10,846	0.49%
58	Ada	10,379	0.47%
59	Lucy	10,323	0.46%
60	Lula	10,238	0.46%
61	Mamie	10,085	0.45%
62	Fannie	9,898	0.45%
63	Stella	9,807	0.44%
64	Katherine	9,408	0.42%
65	Viola	9,386	0.42%
66	Ruby	8,699	0.39%
67	Dora	8,684	0.39%
68	Maggie	8,607	0.39%
69	Nora	8,293	0.37%
70	Rosa	7,881	0.35%
71	Beatrice	7,500	0.34%
72	Ellen	7,435	0.33%
73	Sadie	7,398	0.33%
74	Marion	7,310	0.33%
75	Willie	7,109	0.32%
76	Effie	6,961	0.31%
77	May	6,880	0.31%
78	Beulah	6,785	0.31%
79	Pauline	6,635	0.30%
80	Nettie	6,538	0.29%
81	Susie	6,530	0.29%
82	Della	6,410	0.29%
83	Vera	6,377	0.29%
84	Marguerite	6,376	0.29%
85	Daisy	6,249	0.28%
86	Lydia	5,942	0.27%
87	Virginia	5,864	0.26%
88	Olive	5,713	0.26%
89	Kathryn	5,653	0.25%
90	Evelyn	5,648	0.25%
91	Sallie	5,580	0.25%
92	Lizzie	5,556	0.25%
93	Lottie	5,499	0.25%
94	Emily	5,476	0.25%
95	Georgia	5,445	0.25%
96	Flora	5,442	0.24%
97	Nancy	5,346	0.24%
98	Katie	5,178	0.23%
99	Lucille	5,105	0.23%
100	Leona	5,083	0.23%

Boys, the 1890s

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	80,664	7.07%
2	William	72,244	6.33%
3	James	50,723	4.45%
4	George	43,358	3.80%
5	Charles	36,848	3.23%
6	Joseph	29,000	2.54%
7	Frank	28,718	2.52%
8	Robert	26,147	2.29%
9	Edward	22,033	1.93%
10	Henry	21,664	1.90%
11	Harry	21,330	1.87%
12	Thomas	21,115	1.85%
13	Walter	19,495	1.71%
14	Arthur	16,349	1.43%
15	Fred	14,270	1.25%
16	Albert	13,753	1.21%
17	Clarence	11,901	1.04%
18	Willie	9,849	0.86%
19	Roy	9,779	0.86%
20	Louis	8,442	0.74%
21	Earl	8,297	0.73%
22	Paul	8,181	0.72%
23	Carl	8,047	0.71%
24	Ernest	7,877	0.69%
25	Samuel	7,857	0.69%
26	Richard	7,572	0.66%
27	Raymond	7,572	0.66%
28	Joe	7,482	0.66%
29	David	7,333	0.64%
30	Charlie	7,261	0.64%
31	Harold	7,018	0.62%
32	Ralph	6,951	0.61%
33	Howard	5,949	0.52%
34	Andrew	5,719	0.50%
35	Herbert	5,660	0.50%
36	Elmer	5,647	0.49%
37	Oscar	5,612	0.49%
38	Jesse	5,396	0.47%
39	Alfred	5,373	0.47%
40	Will	5,210	0.46%
41	Daniel	5,185	0.45%
42	Sam	4,941	0.43%
43	Leo	4,691	0.41%
44	Jack	4,635	0.41%
45	Lawrence	4,597	0.40%
46	Francis	4,535	0.40%
47	Benjamin	4,460	0.39%
48	Lee	4,384	0.38%
49	Eugene	4,303	0.38%
50	Herman	4,232	0.37%
51	Peter	4,028	0.35%
52	Frederick	3,994	0.35%
53	Floyd	3,957	0.35%
54	Michael	3,926	0.34%
55	Ray	3,763	0.33%
56	Lewis	3,699	0.32%
57	Claude	3,636	0.32%
58	Clyde	3,625	0.32%
59	Edwin	3,505	0.31%
60	Tom	3,335	0.29%
61	Martin	3,254	0.29%
62	Leonard	3,166	0.28%
63	Ben	3,156	0.28%
64	Chester	3,021	0.26%
65	Edgar	2,982	0.26%
66	Jim	2,841	0.25%
67	Harvey	2,822	0.25%
68	Russell	2,780	0.24%
69	Lester	2,702	0.24%
70	Clifford	2,701	0.24%
71	Luther	2,668	0.23%
72	Homer	2,637	0.23%
73	Jacob	2,551	0.22%
74	Leroy	2,544	0.22%
75	Otto	2,543	0.22%
76	Guy	2,487	0.22%
77	Lloyd	2,480	0.22%
78	Anthony	2,453	0.21%
79	Jessie	2,424	0.21%
80	Hugh	2,405	0.21%
81	Ed	2,346	0.21%
82	Bernard	2,315	0.20%
83	Theodore	2,300	0.20%
84	Stanley	2,297	0.20%
85	Eddie	2,284	0.20%
86	Patrick	2,233	0.20%
87	Philip	2,147	0.19%
88	Leon	2,103	0.18%
89	Archie	2,068	0.18%
90	Leslie	2,063	0.18%
91	Oliver	2,035	0.18%
92	Allen	2,002	0.18%
93	Alexander	1,954	0.17%
94	Dewey	1,921	0.17%
95	Ira	1,916	0.17%
96	Everett	1,902	0.17%
97	Norman	1,891	0.17%
98	Horace	1,814	0.16%
99	Victor	1,811	0.16%
100	Cecil	1,808	0.16%

Year by year

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Counts are summed across the decade's years from the national files; the share column is a name's part of the decade's recorded names for that sex. How we use it.

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