Top Baby Names of 1881 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1881

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 192,688 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1881

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	6,919	7.52%
2	Anna	2,698	2.93%
3	Emma	2,034	2.21%
4	Elizabeth	1,852	2.01%
5	Margaret	1,658	1.80%
6	Minnie	1,653	1.80%
7	Ida	1,439	1.56%
8	Annie	1,326	1.44%
9	Bertha	1,324	1.44%
10	Alice	1,308	1.42%
11	Clara	1,242	1.35%
12	Sarah	1,226	1.33%
13	Ella	1,148	1.25%
14	Nellie	1,096	1.19%
15	Grace	1,089	1.18%
16	Florence	1,046	1.14%
17	Martha	1,044	1.14%
18	Cora	969	1.05%
19	Laura	962	1.05%
20	Carrie	958	1.04%
21	Maude	923	1.00%
22	Bessie	903	0.98%
23	Mabel	893	0.97%
24	Gertrude	791	0.86%
25	Ethel	788	0.86%
26	Jennie	784	0.85%
27	Edith	778	0.85%
28	Hattie	775	0.84%
29	Mattie	754	0.82%
30	Julia	737	0.80%
31	Rose	734	0.80%
32	Lillian	723	0.79%
33	Lillie	678	0.74%
34	Eva	661	0.72%
35	Jessie	661	0.72%
36	Lula	655	0.71%
37	Myrtle	643	0.70%
38	Pearl	641	0.70%
39	Edna	637	0.69%
40	Catherine	635	0.69%
41	Ada	628	0.68%
42	Louise	617	0.67%
43	Helen	612	0.67%
44	Lucy	611	0.66%
45	Frances	586	0.64%
46	Dora	585	0.64%
47	Fannie	565	0.61%
48	Josephine	563	0.61%
49	Daisy	562	0.61%
50	Lena	555	0.60%

Boys, 1881

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,768	8.70%
2	William	8,524	8.46%
3	James	5,441	5.40%
4	George	4,664	4.63%
5	Charles	4,636	4.60%
6	Frank	2,834	2.81%
7	Joseph	2,456	2.44%
8	Henry	2,339	2.32%
9	Thomas	2,282	2.27%
10	Edward	2,177	2.16%
11	Robert	2,140	2.12%
12	Harry	2,002	1.99%
13	Walter	1,670	1.66%
14	Arthur	1,575	1.56%
15	Fred	1,418	1.41%
16	Albert	1,319	1.31%
17	Samuel	919	0.91%
18	David	750	0.74%
19	Louis	746	0.74%
20	Charlie	668	0.66%
21	Clarence	668	0.66%
22	Richard	641	0.64%
23	Joe	639	0.63%
24	Andrew	588	0.58%
25	Ernest	571	0.57%
26	Will	550	0.55%
27	Jesse	536	0.53%
28	Oscar	530	0.53%
29	Daniel	527	0.52%
30	Willie	498	0.49%
31	Benjamin	481	0.48%
32	Sam	481	0.48%
33	Alfred	466	0.46%
34	Roy	440	0.44%
35	Lewis	439	0.44%
36	Frederick	433	0.43%
37	Peter	428	0.42%
38	Elmer	388	0.39%
39	Jacob	381	0.38%
40	Herbert	369	0.37%
41	Carl	359	0.36%
42	Howard	359	0.36%
43	Tom	349	0.35%
44	Lee	342	0.34%
45	Ralph	329	0.33%
46	Martin	327	0.32%
47	Jim	323	0.32%
48	Earl	314	0.31%
49	Eugene	314	0.31%
50	Bert	312	0.31%

United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.

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